Ever wonder why so many skin care products you buy ” even at the health food store ” have ingredients on their labels that you cant even read or pronounce?

In my view, if you cant read or pronounce the ingredient, there is a high likelihood it should not be in your lotion or other skin care product.

Obviously, you really want to avoid using anything potentially toxic on your skin!

Because this is such a common problem, Ive been searching for a product that you could be confident was made of real, recognizable, natural and organic ingredients. So you could enhance your health from the outside in, as well as the inside out.

Quality skin care is not a replacement for good internal health ” it is a part of your entire package of wellbeing.

One of the first strategies you can use to improve your skin health is to make sure you are getting enough high quality omega-3 fats. This is such a reliable indicator that I frequently am able to tell someones omega-3 needs just by shaking their hand.

If their hand is not smooth as a babys behind, its usually a strong indication that they need some more high quality animal-based omega-3 fats ” like krill oil.

So if you struggle with dry skin, make sure you are taking enough of these omega-3 fats. In the colder dry winter months, you may even need to increase your dose.

Your skin grows from the inside out, so your overall nutritional levels really matter. That said however, caring for your skin is not just an inside job ” its an outside job too.

The ‘Outside’ Job of Skin Care

Your skin is much more than an outer surface for the world to see ” its the largest organ of your body!

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Plus, it has a number of amazing responsibilities that you probably dont think about on a daily basis:

* Protects your internal organs from injury and infection.

* Helps detoxify wastes through perspiration.

* Provides an important line of immune defense against infections ” your healthy skin creates a barrier to viruses and bacteria.

* Protects you against extreme changes in temperature, through its thermoregulatory effect of controlling heat flow between you and your environment.

* Produces and stores vitamin D, which is important to your immune system.

* Rich in receptors, it allows you to sense conditions around you ” like hard/soft and hot/cold ” and send information to your brain so you can react to it for self-preservation.

* Protects your body from sunburns.

* Protects you from dehydration.

The loss of any of these functions will compromise your best health ” and can accelerate signs of normal aging.

Put simply, your skin plays a major role in your health.

It functions as an organ that can absorb and excrete both nutrients and toxins through its pores. The condition of your skin is a powerful reflection of just how healthy you are on the inside.

Because your skin has the ability to absorb whatever you put on it, careful choices are critical. You want to give your skin the same thoughtful care you give your internal organs. In a moment, Ill tell you about some things that help support the health of your skin.

But first, lets take a quick look at some of the ingredients in todays skin care products that can compromise the health of your skin (or even more of your body functions).

What if Looks Really Could Kill?

We believe containers when they show a danger warning, or a skull and crossbones to warn of toxins in a product. And we respond by not applying them to our skin or eating them!
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Potential toxins used in the name of beauty , not a fair trade

Yet many skin care products use ingredients with unrecognizable and unpronounceable names.

Personally, I rarely put anything consciously on my skin that I wouldnt be willing to put in my mouth.

It is well-proven that when you apply these chemicals to your skin, they enter your bloodstream and become integrated into your body tissues, In fact, it is probably safer to eat these ingredients than to rub them on your skin (although I strongly recommend you dont do either!).

However, if you do happen to eat these chemicals, your digestive system can produce specific enzymes to break down these toxins and excrete them something that doesnt readily occur when you absorb them through the skin.

Potentially harmful ingredients continue to be used. Why? Because they are cheap, readily available, and easily diluted.

Does Your Skin Care Product Contain These Chemicals?

Why dont you run and get a bottle of any of the skin moisturizers that you are currently using. You might find that your personal care products contain one or probably more of many possibly dangerous ingredients.

Here are a few of the most common suspicious ingredients:

* Mineral Oil, Paraffin, and Petrolatum , Petroleum products that coat the skin like plastic, clogging pores and creating a build-up of toxins, which in turn accumulate and can lead to dermatologic issues. Slows cellular development, which can cause you to show earlier signs of aging. Suspected cause of cancer. Disruptive of hormonal activity. By the way, when theres an oil spill in the ocean, dont they rush to clean it up , fast? Why put that stuff on your skin?

* Parabens , Widely used as preservatives in the cosmetic industry (including moisturizers). An estimated 13,200 cosmetic and skin care products contain parabens. Studies implicate their connection with cancer. They have hormone-disrupting qualities , mimicking estrogen , and interfere with the bodys endocrine system.

* Phenol carbolic acid, Found in many lotions and skin creams. Can cause circulatory collapse, paralysis, convulsions, coma and even death from respiratory failure.

* Propylene glycol , Used as a moisturizer in cosmetics and as a carrier in fragrance oils. Shown to cause dermatitis, kidney or liver abnormalities, and may inhibit skin cell growth or cause skin irritation.

* Acrylamide, Found in many hand and face creams. Linked to mammary tumors in lab research.

* Sodium laurel or lauryl sulfate (SLS), also known as sodium laureth sulfate (SLES), Found in car washes, engine degreasers, garage floor cleaners and in over 90% of personal care products! SLS breaks down the skins moisture barrier, easily penetrates the skin, and allows other chemicals to easily penetrate. Combined with other chemicals, SLS becomes a nitrosamine, a potent class of carcinogen. It can also cause hair loss. SLES is sometimes disguised with the labeling comes from coconut or coconut-derived.

* Toluene , Poison! Danger! Harmful or fatal if swallowed! Harmful if inhaled or absorbed through the skin. Made from petroleum or coal tar, and found in most synthetic fragrances. Chronic exposure linked to anemia, lowered blood cell count, liver or kidney damage, and may affect a developing fetus. Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) contains toluene. Other names may include benzoic and benzyl.

* Dioxane, Found in compounds known as PEG, Polysorbates, Laureth, ethoxylated alcohols. Common in a wide range of personal care products. The compounds are usually contaminated with high concentrations of highly volatile 1,4-dioxane, easily absorbed through the skin.

Dioxanes carcinogenicity was first reported in 1965 and later confirmed in studies including one from the National Cancer Institute in 1978. Nasal passages and liver are the most vulnerable. Dioxane is easily removed during the manufacturing process by vacuum stripping. Warning: It is a synthetic derivative of coconut. Watch for hidden language on labels, such as comes from coconut.

So, do you want to put these chemicals on your skin? Hopefully not…

Youd be better served by switching to skin care products made of plant names you recognize, can pronounce, and could even eat (if you had to).

Discover Seven Secrets for Ageless Skin ” Who Wouldnt Want to Embrace These?

You might be so used to products that contain these potential toxins that youve never even considered the alternatives.

Or perhaps youve been frustrated in your attempt to find better options. Many people wonder what ingredients they should look for in personal care products.

My team and I wanted to be able to provide you with a world-class health-promoting option. So we searched for ingredients that enhance instead of compromise your health.

Im happy to tell you that we succeeded in our search, with new Natural Body Butter.

Its seven wonderful ingredients can contribute to your healthy lifestyle while still enhancing your beauty because I know you are equally passionate about experiencing optimal overall health and looking young and vibrant.
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Aloe vera ” treasured for centuries for its 75 nutrients.

You really can have it both ways, with Natural Body Butters 7 ingredients:

1. Organic Aloe Vera Juice

Did you know that aloe vera juice is one of the most nutrition-packed and biologically-alive liquids on the entire planet? Hardly any natural plant can beat its many benefits to your body.

Aloe contains more than seventy-five nutrients that act synergistically and create an awesome force for your health. Further, its average pH is a balancing 4.55.
It is truly a wondrous gold mine of phyto-nutrients.

Aloe vera is a desert plant thats been treasured for centuries for its ability to enhance health. Records show that Cleopatra used it to protect her skin from the sun and stay young-looking, too.

Now you can do the same, and receive all these benefits:
* Soothing. Aloe vera enhances fibroblast function. Fibroblasts are remarkable little cells responsible for collagen formation. They also assist in the soothing of minor burns, cuts, scrapes and skin irritations.
* Immune support and function. Aloe vera provides natural support for the immune system. Since your skin is the first exterior line of defense and your immune system works around the clock protecting you, aloe veras natural immune enhancers give you an arsenal from which to draw.
* Helps produce collagen and elastin. Your skin replenishes itself every 21 to 28 days. Aloe vera adds a rich supply of building materials to produce and maintain healthy skin to support a youthful appearance! A daily dose of aloe vera could be just what your skin is thirsting for.
* Minerals. Minerals found in aloe vera include calcium, sodium, iron, potassium, chromium, magnesium, manganese, copper, and zinc. What a powerful storehouse! Since your skin absorbs anything you apply to it, using products with naturally occurring vitamins and minerals can contribute to your overall health.
* Vitamins. Aloe vera includes vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, B12, C and E, folic acid and niacin. Your body simply cannot store some of these vitamins. Using aloe vera contributes to building your defense system against oxidative stress!
* Amino acid body-building blocks. Amino acids are your bodys own building blocks. Eight are essential and cannot be produced by your body, but are found in the aloe plant. Aloe vera comes closer than any other known plant to the duplication of essential amino acids.

With all these benefits from aloe vera, you may think that we couldnt improve on it. But I wanted you to be able to have the synergistic benefit of seven of the best and most potent natural ingredients available. So aloe isnt the only thing I offer in our inaugural skin care product.

Youve heard me talk about the importance of coconut oil a number of times.

So coconut oil had to be one of the key ingredients of our Natural Body Butter product. Just in case youre new to my site, allow me to recap the great value of coconut oil , because it really is something that can enhance your life and health.
2. Organic Virgin Coconut Oil

Virgin coconut oil is an ideal way to rejuvenate your skin.
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Virgin coconut oil helps you fight the signs of aging.

It protects against formation of damaging free radicals, and is also used to protect skin from blemishes, signs of aging or overexposure to sunlight. Coconut oil also keeps the skins connective tissues strong and supple.

Coconut oil offers a youthful appearance to your skin by removing the outer layer of dead skin cells, making the skin smoother.

It can even penetrate into the deeper layers of the skin and strengthen the underlying tissues. It can be a factor in healing and repairing age-damaged skin ” unlike most lotions.

Naturally, you want to choose a high-quality organic coconut oil free of chemicals, and without bleach or hydrogenation (which can irritate your skin), to experience its maximum benefits.

As great as coconut oil and aloe vera are, I didnt stop there either, to bring you the best skin care product possible. Jojoba oil has some spectacular benefits, so I had to be sure you could benefit from it, too.
3. Organic Jojoba Oil

Jojoba oil is one of natures most useful products.

Jojoba oil technically isnt oil, but is a pure and luxurious liquid wax ester from cold-pressed seeds of the Simmondsia chinensis and S. californica desert shrubs native to the Sonora Desert in the southwestern U.S. Native Americans applied ground seeds of jojoba to scratches to speed healing and minimize scarring.
diagram of layers of skin

Jojoba oil is a long-chain wax ester, not a triglyceride , making it very similar to the sebum your skin produces (via the sebaceous oil gland).

Sebums job is to retain moisture and keep skin smooth and elastic.

Unfortunately, from about the age of twenty, your skins production of sebum decreases significantly. Remarkably, jojobas naturally silky, odorless, non-allergic liquid mixes completely and rapidly with your natural sebum and follows its pathways deep into your skin.

The liquid wax esters in jojoba assist the sebum by maintaining skin moisture and elasticity. Jojoba oil forms a thin non-greasy lipid layer that holds water in your skin , contrary to common oil in water formulations, which evaporate once theyre on your skins surface.
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Claimed by many as natures wrinkle fighter , and as the cosmetic oil of the century.

Meanwhile, it penetrates and stabilizes your intercellular skin structure, leaving your skin soft and supple. On oily skin, it penetrates deep and fast to merge with skin sebum, tricking the skin to regulate the production of sebum.

Since it penetrates so deeply, it helps protect, while allowing your skins natural maintenance and healing system to do its job ” without having to battle dryness.

Further, jojoba contains nutrients that get absorbed into the body, such as vitamin E, B-complex, and the minerals silicon, chromium, copper, and zinc. It also contains a lot of iodine. Its antioxidant properties prevent rancidity and give it a very long shelf life.

For these reasons, jojoba oil is becoming recognized as the cosmetic oil of the century, and natures wrinkle fighter.
But wait! Theres even more. Read on for more great health benefits found in Natural Body Butter, this new combination of wholesome ingredients for amazing skin care.
4. Monolaurin

Fatty acids from coconuts medium-chain saturated fat are called lauric acid , which is converted into highly beneficial monolaurin in your body. (The only other truly abundant source of lauric acid is in human breast milk.)

Monolaurin is considered by many experts to provide antimicrobial properties that support your healthy immune system. Other studies suggest that monolaurin can stop messages sent between problem-posing cells, disrupting their ability to function.
5. Organic Shea Butter

Shea butter is an all-natural vitamin A cream from the tropics of Africa. It is a superior active moisturizer, also creating moisture similar to that produced by the sebaceous glands in the skin. For centuries, it has been highly regarded for its tonic effects on the skin.

Unrefined and organic shea butter contains an abundance of health-promoting ingredients, including vitamins, minerals, proteins and a unique fatty acid profile.

Unlike petroleum-based moisturizers, shea butter actually restores your skin’s own natural elasticity. It enables your skin to absorb moisture from the air, and therefore becomes softer and stays moisturized for longer.

Shea butter is high in unsaponifiables (a type of fat), containing 7-12%. By comparison, avocado oil, a well-known skin conditioner, contains only 2-6%. This high level of unsaponifiables is a property that makes shea butter extremely valuable as a skin conditioner.

Because of its many amazing properties, shea butter has been so highly regarded that its tree of origin acquired the name karite tree , or Tree of Life.
6. Organic Mango Butter
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Organic mango butter ” an ideal moisturizer for all skin types.

Mango butter is extracted from the seed kernels of the lush and juicy tropical mango fruit, which is believed to have been cultivated for at least 4,000 years.

It is a soft solid resembling cocoa butter in color and texture and has a slight, sweet scent. One of its most common uses is as a base ingredient for skin care products and soaps , effectively replacing paraffin-based (petroleum based) emollients.

Mango butters high unsaponifiable contents provide emollient properties, high oxidative ability, and regenerative activity. It also lends protection against the suns UV rays.

Mango butter has been shown to soften, sooth, moisturize and protect your skin, and to maintain flexibility and control age-related damage to skin cells. It is considered by many to be an ideal moisturizer for all skin types.
7. Natural Palm Oil

Palm oil is considered by some to be nature’s gift to the world.

Consumed for more than 5,000 years, its nutritional value, health benefits and value as a natural resource continue to be discovered even today.
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Join the thousands who regard natural palm oil to be natures gift to the world.

Palm oil is nutrient-dense and contains many potent antioxidants, including beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, and tocotrienols, an extremely potent form of vitamin E.

Vitamin E is the major lipid soluble antioxidant in your skin. The potent antioxidant tocotrienols have even more beneficial actions on your skin , your first line of defense against free radicals generated by your environment.

Minimally processed palm oil, like that used in Natural Body Butter, contains other phyto-nutrients, including phytosterols, squalene, CoQ10, and mixed carotenoids, offering a host of natural and wholesome phyto-nutrients. Palm oil boasts the most significant amounts of tocotrienols available.

Our natural Palm oil within our Body Butter comes from Malaysia. There are only two natural palm oil plantations in the world, this is one of them. We do not get our Palm oil from the forests in India, Africa or Malaysia, it is a farmed product.

Youd be better served by switching to skin care products made of plant names you recognize, can pronounce, and could even eat (if you had to).

Achieving Beautiful Skin thats More than Skin Deep

So, seven ingredients with manifold health benefits!
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They contribute individually to more soft and smooth, moist skin ” and your ageless beauty. Without loading up your personal skin care product with potential toxins

Just think what the synergistic effect of these seven moisturizers together is for your beauty , and your optimal health!

Natural Body Butter is a rich, buttery moisturizing cream. Pamper yourself , pamper your skin. You will look great , and feel great. And have the peace of mind that comes from knowing youre softening your skin with luscious antioxidants and other healthful nutrients.

Heres what one tester had to say about new Natural Body Butter:

“I have the driest skin on the planet. Ive tried about a dozen products per year for the past ten years, trying to find something that really works (and wont kill me). Natural Body Butter is the first product Ive found that meets those criteria! Its like having NEW skin. Thank you, Dr. Mercola.”
– Carol P., MI

Theres one small caveat in the use of Natural Body Butter (or any other skin care product). A great product will function best if you apply it in a way that maximizes its benefits.

Half Your Success is in HOW You Apply Body Butter!

Skin is a dynamic organ whose condition and properties depend on temperature, hydration, environment, internal health and other factors.

Different people can get very different results with the same product. Quite often, the real truth is that different people get different results because they apply skin care products differently.
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Refrigerate Your Natural Body Butter
” Food for Your Skin

Because Natural Body Butter contains absolutely NO preservatives and is made up of seven health-promoting and beauty-enhancing ingredients (including one of Mother Natures most nutrition-packed and biologically-alive liquids , aloe vera juice), REFRIGERATION is the best way to keep it from contamination and oxidation.

Refrigeration will also help to preserve your Natural Body Butters regenerative antioxidant power. And remember, this products acts as food for your skin. So it requires the same proper care that many perishable organic fruits and vegetables need to remain nutritionally viable.

Storing your Natural Body Butter in your refrigerator is the best way to ensure that your skin is getting the maximum nourishing and soothing benefits this butter offers throughout its shelf life.

So, to maximize your benefits from Natural Body Butter, I want to give you seven helpful hints for its most effective use.

1. Clean your skin before applying skin care products (particularly if you have applied anything to your skin since your last skin washing). The best time to apply skin care products is when you are fresh out of a warm shower or bath. Not only is your skin clean, but it is also thoroughly moist and will better absorb anything you apply to it.
2. Clean your skin gently! Avoid strong soaps and irritating additives. Pat your skin dry instead of rubbing.
3. Dont wash your skin with hot water. Excessive heat accelerates skin aging. Your water should be comfortably warm, but not hot.
4. Dont spend too much time in the shower or soaking in the tub, to avoid excessive exposure to chlorine in the water. Or, alternatively, have a filter installed to your shower head or bathtub faucet to cut your chlorine exposure.
5. Apply Natural Body Butter when your skin is moist, because active ingredients penetrate best when they are dissolved. Don’t wipe your skin completely dry (just pat it) after you clean or wash it, when you intend to apply Natural Body Butter.
6. Warm, moist skin absorbs ingredients better. Before applying Natural Body Butter, warm your skin. Use a warm moist towel if needed.
7. Use short strokes with gentle pressure to apply Natural Body Butter, and avoid overly stretching the skin.

Another Important Hint to Keep Your Skin Soft in the Winter

Avoid the use of drying soaps as this can really dry your skin in the winter. Also, if possible ” its helpful to wash your hands less in the winter as any exposure to water with even the most gentle soap will tend to dry your skin.

This is Your Moment to Become Even More Beautiful

If you do these seven things , plus diligently use Natural Body Butter daily , you should notice your skin becoming moist, soft, and more youthful looking.

Natural Body Butter not only works well as a body cream, but can also be used as a moisturizer under makeup on the face and neck , and as a hand cream, too.

In all cases, it softens and provides nutrition to the skin without a greasy feeling.

You can get Natural Body Butter in 3 forms:
Unscented Natural Body Butter Lavender Natural Body Butter Jasmine Natural Body Butter

So you can choose the option that best meets your needs and desires

Quality care of your skin is important, just as you are also passionate about quality care of your hidden organs.

Begin today to achieve a new level of skin beauty that contributes to , instead of compromises , your overall health and well-being. It really is possible to both look and feel well.

You might think that bringing in these fine oils from tropical regions throughout the world would make the price of Natural Body Butter prohibitive. This product does use ingredients that I believe to provide best for your ageless beautiful and healthy skin. So their value is understandably quite high. And a correspondingly high price would be reasonable.

Spas charge as much as $78 for 8 ounces of moisturizer that , along with some quality ingredients , still contains numerous potentially harmful petroleum-based ingredients that your body absorbs.

But dont worry!

You wont pay anything near that much to pamper yourself with the wholesome ingredients and tropical oils of Natural Body Butter! I wanted to keep it very affordable so you could easily enjoy all its benefits (without having to take out a loan to enjoy it).

So today, Natural Body Butter can be yours for only $11.97 per 4-oz. jar. Act now to discover for yourself the secret synergy that these seven ingredients can offer.

For your most youthful appearance. And your best overall health. Now you can keep people guessing about your age for the rest of your life!

Or order a 3-pack for only $35.91 and give one to someone you love. Makes a great stocking-stuffer!

And, it gets even better. If you invest in a 3-pack of Natural Body Butter, youll also receive a special bonus of Pure and Natural Lip Balm, filled with virgin coconut oil, natural palm oil, bees wax, and other healthful ingredients.

Why wait to keep your youthful appearance? Order your Body Butter today. Cross the threshold to your new healthful choice in skin care.

by Chet Day
Reprinted with permission from Chet Day’s Health & Beyond

Every year about this time, quite a few people write me and ask, “My Doctor tells me to get my annual flu shot. Should I do it?”

Well, I don’t diagnose or prescribe, and what you do with your body remains entirely up to you and your doctor (if you still go to a doctor), but I’ll gladly tell you what I do regarding flu shots…

I avoid them like the plague.

In fact, at age 52, I’ve never had a flu shot, and it would take a Marine nurse and at least four burly wrestlers the size of Jessie Ventura to hold me down and give me one.

Perhaps you already sense I have strong feelings about flu shots?

These feelings stem from personal opinion, reading, and dramatic personal experience.

First off, I don’t think toxic chemicals and virus strains grown on living tissue belong in the human body, even when they’re packaged in sterile glass vials.

Since my family and I don’t rely on doctors anymore, I don’t have access to an insert that reveals the composition of this year’s flu vaccine, but I did find some general information at the Concerned Parents for Vaccine Safety web site, where I learned about some of the ingredients used to make vaccines.

Do you want any of the following vaccine constituents in YOUR bloodstream?

* Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)

* Phenol, also known as carbolic acid (this is used as a disinfectant, dye)

* Formaldehyde, a known cancer-causing agent

* Aluminum, which is associated with Alzheimer’s disease and seizures and also cancer producing in laboratory mice (it is used as an additive to promote antibody response)

* Thimerosal (a mercury disinfectant/preservative) can result in brain injury and autoimmune disease

* Neomycin and Streptomycin (used as antibiotics) have caused allergic reaction in some people.

Vaccines are also grown and strained through animal or human tissue like monkey kidney tissue, chicken embryo, embryonic guinea pig cells, calf serum, and human diploid cells (the dissected organs of aborted human fetuses as in the case of rubella, hepatitis A, and chickenpox vaccines).

Well, I refuse to put all of the above in my body, and I hope when your doctor starts telling you it’s time for your annual flu shot that you’ll require him to defend the annual injection. You or your insurance company’s probably paying eighty bucks for a visit, so get your money’s worth.

Have your doctor read you the insert that comes with the vaccine.

Then have him/her explain why it makes sense to inject toxic chemicals into the human body and how such substances can aid the delicate immune system.

Chances are he/she will fall back on questionable statistical and demographic explanations that the medical establishment has used for decades to justify immunization.

Try to engage your doctor in a non-confrontational discussion because this is an opportunity for him/her to actually give some serious thought to what he/she is injecting into bodies of patients day after day after day.

Many traditional doctors who haven’t studied diet and lifestyle aren’t going to change unless we help to educate them to what drugs and vaccines may really be doing long-term to people.

Okay, to speak from personal experience for a moment, let’s look over our shoulders to 1990, a time period before the Day family turned to natural methods of building health.

In February of 1990, right after my wife’s major cancer surgery in January, her doctor recommended a flu shot.

Almost immediately after the injection, my wife started feeling ill.

Overnight she came down with the worst case of flu she’d ever had.

She went to bed and literally didn’t get up again for more than a few hours at a time for years afterwards. Only now, almost a decade later, is she finally regaining full health and energy.

I don’t have space or enough heart yet to tell my wife’s entire story, though I’ll do it one of these days, but if you’ll click here, you can read an article written by another CFIDS sufferer, an article that shows the cause and effect connection between flu vaccines and terrible immune disorders.

Okay, I’m a realist so if was still thinking traditionally, part of me would almost buy into the typical rationale for flu vaccines, that so many people are spared the annual flu and only a few die or have their lives ruined after being injected.

I’d buy into that if I were convinced that injecting a filthy substance into the body actually made sense.

Unfortunately, once I stopped buying into the big medical lies about their drug, cut, and burn system, I started questioning all of it.

And when one digs into the vaccine history (check out the Swine Flu vaccine if you want a real horror story) and scientific research (especially in Europe), it quickly becomes apparent that nobody really knows what these toxic stews of chemicals and microorganisms do in the human body.

Well, readers and a few medical professionals have called me a simple-minded dolt on more than one occasion, but since 1993 I’ve approached the yearly flu shot hype with the understanding that if I eat and live properly, I won’t have to worry about catching the flu.

The flu vaccine I use — eating and living as close to nature as I can — actually works.

Not only that, but it doesn’t cost a dime, and nobody’s going to have his/her life ruined because of a “bad batch” of vaccine that triggers some mysterious autoimmune disease that lays a person out of commission for years.

But let’s say you don’t want to eat and live close to nature.

Okay, I can understand that, but my next question would be “Which is better? Some rest time with the flu or having toxic chemicals injected into your bloodstream?”

I mean, seriously, before I got healthy I almost looked forward to a yearly bout with influenza because it meant I could go to bed and get some rest instead of working practically every waking moment of my life.

I might add that I haven’t missed more than two consecutive days of work from an illness for almost five years, so a non-vaccine approach does work for me. This non-drug approach has resulted in a level of health that continually amazes me, especially when I see other men and women my age who are miserable and without energy. Men and women who spend all too much of their time drifting from doctor to doctor in endless pursuit of solutions that don’t get to the cause of their problems — diet and life style.

Dr. Mercola’s Comments:

Chet Day is right on target here. He is one of the few newsletter writers that I am in virtual 100% agreement with.

I have heard some authors state that there is a direct correlation of the number of flu shots one has and the incidence of Alzheimer’s. This would be due to the aluminum and mercury that is put in every flu shot.

I could not agree more with his recommendations. I am fond of providing the following answer to people who ask me if they should get a flu shot.

I tell them “Only if they want to get the flu”.

I am glad to see Chet has gone for five years without missing two consecutive days of work. In the last 20 years though, I have not missed one day of work due to an illness. Now my diet and lifestyle program has NOT always been perfect, far from it. But for the most part I am following an optimized program.

The only miracle here though is that God has given us such wonderful bodies that if even come close to following an optimal diet, exercise and rest, we will have a high likelihood of immunity from illness.

Poor nutrition leads to mutations that create more dangerous forms of the influenza virus and may contribute to newly virulent outbreaks of viral epidemics ranging from the common cold to AIDS and Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

Deficiencies of selenium allowed the human influenza virus to mutate into more virulent forms in mice, and a similar mutation is likely to occur in people.

Once the mutations have occurred, even mice with normal nutrition are more susceptible to the newly virulent strain.

Poor nutritional status may contribute to the emergence of new viral strains and might promote epidemics.

In the study, groups of mice with normal and selenium-deficient diets were exposed to Influenza A Bangkok, a mild strain of human influenza virus. Although investigators had expected the malnourished mice to be sicker than the well-fed ones, they confirmed that the virus also mutated to a greater degree in these mice.

Selenium, which is found in meat, is a component of an antioxidant enzyme that helps the body fight off infections. Most people in developed countries would not need to supplement their diet to maintain adequate levels of the mineral.

The study focused on the flu virus, which hospitalizes more than 100,000 people each year in the United States alone. The research also confirmed earlier studies into the causes of mutations of a virus, Coxsackie B3, linked to a heart disease known as Keshan disease.

The disease, once found in China among children and women of childbearing age with diets low in selenium, was largely eradicated by dietary supplements.

FASEB Journal June 2001

Dr. Mercola’s Comments:

Most people are stuck in a belief system that puts most of the responsibility for illness on these big bad infectious bacteria and viruses.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Even Louis Pasteur, on his deathbed, realized that it was not the infectious agents, but the terrain in which they worked, which was responsible for their ability to produce illness.

The most significant contribution to one’s biological terrain would be the foods that you eat. This is one of the reasons why one should seriously consider implementing the optimal health food choice program. The program eliminates sugars and most grains that break down to sugar. It is these sugars that serve as fuel for the growth of pathogens that will cause illness.

As the above study suggests, other factors are involved. Selenium is a major player for viral infections. As the first link below shows, selenium is a potent inhibitor of viral replication and is an important part of effective natural regimens for control of hepatitis C infections.

However, one must be aware that medical science is at a very rudimentary stage of its understanding of nutrition and it interaction with human physiology. There are likely dozens, if not hundreds, of other micronutrients and factors that are responsible for decreasing the risk of infection when one eats natural unprocessed whole foods.

And if you think a flu shot is a good option for preventing the flu, you have not read Chet Day’s excellent summary on that issue below.

Scientists may one day be able to destroy viruses by mathematically determining the frequencies at which they can be shaken to death.

All objects have resonant frequencies at which they naturally vibrate. But too much vibration can destroy the object. Recent experiments have shown that laser pulses tuned to the right frequency can kill certain viruses. However, at present, locating these resonant frequencies is a trial and error task.

Researchers are hard at work developing methods to calculate the vibrational motion of every atom in a virus shell. From this, they can determine the lowest resonant frequencies. For example, the satellite tobacco necrosis virus resonates strongly around 60 Gigahertz (60 billion cycles per second).

It is unlikely that viruses will be able to develop resistance to mechanical shaking, as they do to drugs.
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* Live Science February 5, 2008

Dr. Mercola’s Comments:

I found this article particularly interesting because of how it ties in with research on other fronts, specifically the breakthrough discoveries of Bruce Lipton, as explained in his book The Biology of Belief.

In it he explains the foundation of epigenetics, and how the true secret to life does not lie in within your DNA, but rather within the mechanisms of the cell membrane. In this way , which is contrary to conventional medical science , it is actually the cells membrane — operating in response to environmental signals picked up by the membranes receptors — that control the reading of the genes inside.

When you destroy its brain , the membrane , the cell dies, just as you would die if your brain was removed. Therefore, killing viruses through the use of resonant frequencies that stresses the cell to the point of breaking its shell is certainly within the realm of reality.

This research may also, eventually, add new credence to the explanation of how your body can be damaged by exposure to various information-carrying radio waves, which oscillate at frequencies that resonate with different cells in your body, including your brain cells.

As stated in the article above, all objects have resonant frequencies at which they naturally vibrate. Too much vibration can destroy the object, or cause it to malfunction.

Ive written several articles on this subject within the last year, as I believe cellular phones and WiFi are one of the greatest health hazards we face as we move into the future.

I also believe that the more we find out about how our bodies are really affected by energies, such as resonating frequencies, the more the problem of information-carrying radio waves will become apparent to the masses. And, the more you will come to realize just to what extent your own thought energies affect your health and genetic expression.

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Childhood vaccines contain doses of mercury that are in excess of the Federal Safety Guidelines, and evidence shows a link between these excessive doses of mercury, found in thimerosal-containing vaccines, and neurodevelopment disorders such as autism and speech disorders, as well as heart disease, according to a study.

Since the introduction of thimerosal to vaccines, rates of autism have drastically increased. In the mid-1980s, one in 2,500 children had autism compared with one in about 300 children in 1996–an increase of over 800 percent in 20 years.

Researchers say that thimerosal should be banned from all U.S. vaccines and hope such a ban would curb the epidemic of autism and speech disorders facing America.

The study found a two- to six-fold increased occurrence of neurodevelopment disorders after an additional 75- to 100-microgram dosage of mercury from thimerosal-containing vaccines as compared to thimerosal-free vaccines.

To investigate, researchers analyzed the doses of mercury from thimerosal-containing vaccines that children received from routine childhood immunizations. They also evaluated the incidence of rates of neurodevelopment disorders and heart disease following thimerosal-containing vaccines and thimerosal-free vaccines.

Additionally, researchers looked at data on children with various types of disabilities in comparison to the amount of mercury they received from thimerosal in their childhood vaccines.

Based on the results, which found thimerosal-containing vaccines to contain mercury in excess of Federal Safety Guidelines, researchers confirmed a link between thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines and neurodevelopment disorders and heart disease.

Dr. Mercola’s Comments:

It is nearly incomprehensible that the well-documented, toxic mercury is still in many vaccines, years after federal agencies have mandated that thimerosal be removed from the hepatitis vaccine.

Most people, physicians included, don’t understand that the mercury preservative thimerosal is still used in most vaccines and is likely one of the major contributing factors to vaccine toxicity.

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin. Injecting it into a child, whose nervous system is rapidly developing, could have terrible consequences.

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