Continued from Part I: Why Your Fatigued Adrenals Need Extra Support

In the emergency medical profession, doctors work according to an order of operations. The first priority is to stabilize the patient’s condition, and only then do they undertake more elaborate measures, operating if necessary. This is because without a stable base, without addressing issues like stopping hemorrhaging or providing oxygen or blood transfusions, the operation is more likely to fail. By creating a solid foundation, doctors increase their chances of success and saving lives.

The same order of operations is in effect with Protein Extreme Energy and Adrenal ReBoot. Protein Extreme Energy works to build a solid energetic foundation, which allows Adrenal ReBoot to build on top of this foundation without having to worry about addressing a systemic lack of energy. This frees Adrenal ReBoot to work deeply in the body, opening and strengthening fatigued adrenals and their surrounding pathways – allowing users to reach the next energetic level.

So, while Protein Extreme Energy is the first and most vital component to building core energy for life, Adrenal ReBoot goes beyond the core to address an identified problem area – the adrenals – and bring them back into a high functioning state. For the most potent results, take Protein Extreme Energy first thing in the morning, and two capsules of Adrenal ReBoot at dinner with food.

Copyright 2010 Life Health Secrets

This summer the defibrillator fired off. In the hospital, I got bad news. The doctors told me I needed a heart transplant because my heart had only a 5% ejection fraction (a healthy adult ejection fraction ranges from 50-65%). They also diagnosed me with Hepatitis C, and edema, which had resulted in the severe bloating of my body. They put me on 9 different types of medication that left me feeling dizzy, incoherent, off-balance, dehydrated and depressed.

When I got released from the hospital, a friend who worked at a health food store told me about Protein Extreme Energy™. I’d tried to go natural before, taking all kinds of herbal supplements, but none of it worked, I still got the edema. From the moment I started taking Protein Extreme Energy, I felt a sense of energy and strength that I didn’t have before. I also felt more focused, and more balanced when I walked. I also didn’t feel depressed anymore, my mood was elevated. I started following an all-natural, mostly plant-based diet and began doing breathing exercises. The side effects from my medications – the spots, dizziness, headaches, palpitations – all that stuff went away.

After two months of taking Protein Extreme Energy™, along with following the clean eating habits and taking my medications, the doctor did a stress test on me. My ejection fraction had gone from a 5% to a 42% in two months – I didn’t need a heart transplant anymore. The doctor couldn’t believe it, he had to double check the results. Also, when they did a blood check, the Hepatitis C I had been diagnosed with before was cleared, I didn’t have it anymore.

I went from being on 9 medications to now being on no medication at all. I went from being 270 lbs this summer in the hospital to now being a lean 210 lbs. When I came out the hospital I was frail, I couldn’t work out. Now I’m able to do pull ups, 50 push ups straight, an hour on the treadmill inclined all the way to the last height. I’m able to work out 5 days a week from half an hour to an hour and still recuperate for the next day. I feel so much stronger, more toned, more defined. Now all my friends tell me, your grip is back.

I’m very grateful for Protein Extreme Energy™, I believe it’s been instrumental in allowing me to have a second life. I really felt dead prior to it. Now I have a new sense of hope, I feel stronger every day. I’ve got my second wind and I’m motivated to pursue a healthy lifestyle. I really feel inspired and I want to motivate others to do the same, and not to give up just because they have a condition. I realize there are so many possibilities to get well with the right eating habits and supplementation for their health. Protein Extreme Energy™ is the best product I’ve ever taken for energy. I don’t get crashes. I’m also taking Adrenal Reboot™ and GSH Ignite™, and I’ve noticed that I sleep more soundly and my breathing capacity is up.

Copyright LifeHealthSecrets 2009

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Why don’t you have different products for different body types/blood types?

The underlying purpose of all our supplements is to strengthen vital life current, which is a foundational health issue. Increase your core energy and your body is better equipped to deal with peripheral issues and conditions. Our approach to health is cleansing and strengthening from the inside out – from the cellular level to the entire body. Everyone functions better when their cells are healthy, which is where Protein Extreme Energy and GSH-Ignite come in. Maxodin and Adrenal Reboot provide additional support to the adrenals and the nervous system – the two areas most commonly affected and weakened by stress and our modern lifestyle. Life Health Secrets supplements provide a strong base to address virtually universal health issues.

What’s the ideal daily supplement plan?

• Morning: One serving of Protein Extreme Energy first thing on empty stomach, followed by a glass of water.
• Breakfast: 2 Maxodin with food
• Mid-afternoon (this is flexible): A scoop of GSH-Ignite, followed by a glass of water
• Dinnertime: 2 Adrenal Reboot with food

What if I just want to start with one product, which one should it be?

Though it depends on your particular needs, generally it’s a good idea to start with the Protein Extreme Energy (in the morning before breakfast).

When should I take more than one serving per day of Protein Extreme Energy or GSH-Ignite?

When you are physically active or are trying to lose weight.

I’m overweight, is there a special plan I should follow?

Follow the ideal daily supplement plan listed above and add a second scoop of Protein Extreme Energy, followed by a glass of water, a half hour to one hour before dinner.

I’m working out –what should I take before and after workout?

One serving of GSH-Ignite (½ hour ideal timing) before workout, Protein Extreme Energy soon after.  Also, check out our sports blog, www.elitesportsandfitness.com, for helpful ideas on training and their supplement intake.

I’m on medication, is there any product I shouldn’t take?

If you have high blood pressure or are taking an MAO inhibitor (anti-depressants), then don’t take Maxodin, but the others are all compatible with those conditions. However,  should you have any medical condition, consult your doctor and you should check back with your doctor a few weeks after starting the LifeHealthSecrets supplements.

Another way of saying it is Take Charge of your Life by Amping Up your Brain. Yes, there’s a lot to be said about a distinction in nutrition that few people really talk about.

That distinction is based on recognizing the two main forms of energy that exist in our cells, all of them, and most notably the nervous system and brain.  There is the bio-chemical form of energy with which most people are familiar.  This is so because the mainstay of nutrition addresses different kinds of bio-chemical, bio-available nutrients in the form of vitamins and phyto-nutrients, the family of B’s, C, A, D, E, K and on.  These are, make no mistake, vitally important to health and moreso, optimal wellness.  The bio-chemistry of foods, herbs, nuts, seeds and roots are something human nutrition requires.

The other less discussed, but perhaps even more important form of energy, dare I suggest, is electrical.  It is based largely on the mineral composition of a food, plant or herb, or a specific, if not precise combination of different foods or nutrients.  It is the electrical energy which charges the cell and allows it to even digest, assimilate the nutrition found in the vitamins.  Without the charge, nothing.  With the charge with even few vitamins, you still have motive strength and power.

So to focus on what causes “electrical aliveness” is to focus on what causes vibrancy, and what we generally refer to as “energy”.  When we say someone is “energetic”, we are not typically saying “that person is well-nourished, look his cells are so happy”; we are saying that there is a “charge”, like an energy field or aura around that person.  That energy field, also referred to as a “bio-field”, that aura, is electrical in nature.

When we hop into our car, even if we have a full tank of gas, a crankcase topped off with oil and a powerful engine ready to rev up to high horsepower, it’s going nowhere without the electrical connection in the starter to the motor, which comes initially from the battery.  This is how the human body also works.  It needs that spark to get it going and to keep it going, sustained over time.

This electrical charge is what we also refer to generally as ‘life-force’.  When we eat foods or take natural, high-quality supplements, while we certainly ingest the bio-chemical nutrition and this feeds our cells, the cells capacity to assimilate as well as to eliminate waste is a function of the electrical charge of the cell.  Cellular metabolism is a function of the capacitance of the cell.

The higher the capacitance, the more efficient the transport of nutrients into the cell through the membrane (yes, think “brain” because it is—see the work of cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton) as well as oxygen and carbon dioxide transfer.  When the capacitance is over 1313 pico Farads for a male, he is extremely healthy.  Below 381 and he’s in the danger zone.  Extremely healthy women will be above 1009 or extremely unhealthy, below 303.  So health is very much measurable by electrical capacitance of a cell.

This charge we also absorb from food in a very interesting process of absorbing the plant’s life-force—that’s the main thing from food, from plants, that keeps us alive.  The quality of that life-force is what molds and shapes our own.  When we eat plants from the Amazon Rainforest, for instance, we are getting an “life-force imprint” that we wouldn’t get had we just eaten deadened or dare I think it, micro-waved food.

In my work in Energy Medicine, using the body scan/bio-feedback technology called the LIFE System, we are, in effect, measuring the capacitance of different areas, cellular colonies of the body.  It’s fascinating, and when we see imbalance, we can then “charge up” that area or system so it returns to homeostasis.

Someone recently said to me that if we are what we eat, let’s eat billionaires!  Laughing aside, the energy billionaires have, at least in the bank account, is another form of life-force.  This article is about absorbing electro-nutrition into our cells, a different kind of life-force, but the joke does show that what we do need for optimum health and wellness is to be aware of and make sure that we have ample electro-nutrition as a mainstay of our diet.

By Mitchell Rabin, M.A., L.AC.
www.abetterworld.net

1. Eat Well

This seems like it should go without saying, but many people don’t realize the extent to which every single thing you eat affects your body chemistry. Foods either boost your energy or deplete it, they either donate electrons or rob you of them, they either harm or heal. So, while the supplements you take work to energize your cells and keep them working in optimal condition, if the foods you’re consuming aren’t healthy, then you’re making it harder on yourself. Look out for upcoming posts on how to optimize your nutrition, foods to avoid (some will surprise you!) and recipes.

2. Drink Enough Water

Staying hydrated is key to activating Protein Extreme Energy and helping GSH-Ignite, Maxodin and Adrenal Re-Boot do their work. Water helps to flush out cellular toxins and metabolic waste from the body so that your cells don’t get overloaded and bogged down. Staying hydrated is also essential to keep your internal organs functioning properly. How much water a day should people drink? While there’s no scientific consensus, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies recommends that men consume about 13 cups, or 3 liters; and women approximately 9 cups, or 2.2 liters, of fluids a day.

3. Get Enough Sleep

Think about it. Kids sleep a lot and heal a lot faster than we do. They don’t need caffeine to get them through the day – when they’re up they’re bouncing off the walls, and when they crash, they sleep so deeply it’s virtually impossible to rouse them. As we get older, we train ourselves to make do with less and less sleep, and often the sleep we do get is restless, unsatisfying. Sleep is fundamental to our well-being: we regenerate and rejuvenate our bodies when we sleep deeply, it helps us deal with stress and improves our mood and cognition. In the next few months we’ll be discussing sleep in more detail: tricks on how to get it and why it’s so vital to your health. For now, just try to get at least 8 hours a night, preferably closer to 9.

4. Make a Supplement Plan & Stick to it

As much as possible, stick with your plan. A missed pill here and there won’t make a difference, but the more you stick with a schedule, the happier your body will be.

For example, here’s my plan:

Morning: A scoop of Protein Extreme Energy first thing on empty stomach, followed by a glass of water.

Breakfast: 2 Maxodin with food

Mid-afternoon Slump: A scoop of GSH-Ignite, followed by a glass of water

(this works for me every time)

Dinnertime: 2 Adrenal Re-Boot with food

If I’m exercising, then I add in an extra serving of Protein Extreme Energy pre-workout and GSH-Restore (this is the vanilla version of GSH-Ignite) post-workout.

5. Breathe

As the adage goes, breath is life. We’ve been doing it since we were born, so we should all be experts now, right? Wrong. Most of us don’t take full breaths, we keep them shallow and this causes a whole slew of health problems for us relating to low levels of blood oxygen (which we will elaborate on in future posts). You don’t need to be a yogi or devote hours to this. If you can get outside and go for a walk every day, great – do it and focus on your breathing. If not, just take a few minutes while you’re at work to concentrate on your breath and practice deep breathing. This is an especially effective thing to do when you’re under stress or feeling tired. It will help get more oxygen to your brain, center and calm you.  Plus, it just feels nice to breathe.

What about you? How do you take your Life Health Secrets supplements? Share your tips for increasing core energy with us!

Copyright 2009 LifeHealthSecrets

Electrons play a vital role in our cells to neutralize free radicals. As our cells produce energy, they also produce free radicals. Eating unhealthy foods (such as fried foods), breathing polluted air, drinking toxic water, extreme exercise and stress can also generate free radicals. Free radicals are molecules, atoms, or ions missing electrons in their outer orbits. This makes them highly reactive, and if they aren’t neutralized by an electron donor substance like an anti-oxidant, then they can wreak havoc in our cells – damaging DNA, causing cellular mutations, breaking down cellular function and potentially leading to cancer. Our cells experience electron loss on an ongoing basis, so it’s just as vital to keep on replenishing those electrons.

To fix this problem, why not just eat electron-donor foods such as fruits and vegetables high in anti-oxidants, maybe take a few anti-oxidant supplements? Yes, diet can help, but generally, as we get older, nutritious meals fail to vitalize us in the same way they did when we were younger. The body can no longer utilize the nutrients as efficiently. The problem is, that in order for your cells to be able to pull in the vital nutrients you’re consuming, they need to be sufficiently ‘charged,’ and cellular charge tends to get weaker as we get older.

A cell’s charge is formed by the osmotic pressure gradient from inside the cell to outside. The cell uses its sodium potassium pump to partly maintain this pressure gradient, keeping sodium ions out and potassium ions in. These two ions of electrons – sodium and potassium – are partly responsible for allowing electrons to move through your body and into your cells. If someone is depleted of electrolytes, you can give them all the nutrients in the world, but their body won’t be able to absorb them. Why? Their cells don’t have the electrical capacity to pull in the nutrients.

So cellular charge becomes the missing link to healthy aging. To reap the benefits of antioxidants, we must also strengthen the cell’s ability to draw them in. In order to address these two issues – cellular charge and electron loss over time – Life Health Secrets has designed Protein Extreme Energy and GSH-Ignite.  Protein Extreme Energy works primarily to increase cellular charge (though it also provides electron donors) and GSH-Ignite focuses on building your body’s natural supply of glutathione – an intracellular anti-oxidant hundreds of times more powerful than anything found in fruits, vegetables or most supplements. Together, Protein Extreme Energy and GSH-Ignite work to keep your cells charged and equipped to deal with free radicals.

Alix Thelemaque

Madeleine Thomas

Copyright 2009 LifeHealthSecrets

Understanding the oxidative system will provide us with the first method for increasing cellular energy. For cellular respiration to occur, oxygen must be drawn into the cells, where it’s used to produce energy (if you want to get specific, the mitochondria in our cells use it as a hydrogen acceptor during ATP production to produce water). How is oxygen drawn into the cell? Through the sodium potassium pump, which is what creates a cell’s ‘electrical charge’. The electrons around the outer membrane and inner nucleus of the cell, going in opposite directions, draw in the oxygen by means of diffusion.  So, a cell’s electrical charge controls the amount of oxygen that can be drawn in, and is in part responsible for how much energy your cells can produce.

This provides us with the first method of increasing cellular energy: increase a cell’s electrical charge. Note that electrical charge is also responsible for the removal of metabolic waste from the cell. If a cell’s charge is low, then metabolic waste accumulates and hinders cellular respiration. If things slow down enough, edema or water retention occurs – the cell’s osmotic pressure become so weak that it loses the ability to expel waste and old body fluids. When a cell’s charge is strengthened, metabolic wastes can be properly disposed of and cellular respiration increased.

The second method for increasing cellular energy can be understood through the reductive system. While oxygen is vital to cellular respiration, it also ‘oxidizes’ the cells, producing harmful free radicals that can damage cell function, respiration and DNA.  Reductive enzymes – with glutathione being the main SOD reductive enzyme – are what protect the cell from these free radicals. When a cell doesn’t have enough glutathione, it attempts to decrease ATP production so as to minimize the free radical damage. Therefore, increasing glutathione provides us with the second method to increase cellular energy. By increasing glutathione, you balance oxidation with reduction, and allow ATP to increase, thereby increasing your body’s cellular energy.

A thorough understanding of these two approaches to increasing cellular energy leads to understanding how two of Life Health Secrets’ supplements work. Protein Extreme Energy functions to increase cellular electron loads and therefore cellular charge – it adopts the first method for increasing cellular energy. GSH-Ignite adopts the second method – by encouraging healthy glutathione levels it allows ATP production to increase. As such, Protein Extreme Energy and GSH-Ignite take complementary routes to achieving the same goal – enhanced cellular respiration, leading to enhanced whole body energy for life.

Copyright 2009 LifeHealthSecrets

Our immunoglobulin concentrate provides two and one-half times the Immunglobulin G (IgG) found in colostrum, and fifteen times that found in whey isolate. IgG responds against pro-inflammatory cytokines, binding to pathogens and protecting the body from their effects. It has been shown to reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines by up to 95%, resulting in significant improvement in colon health and a systemic reduction of whole body inflammation.

Immunoglobulins have also been shown to help improve liver function, leading to a reduction in LDL (bad) cholesterol. A recent study found that men and women with moderately high cholesterol, 210 to 270 total count, had a 6% drop in total cholesterol after just three weeks of taking an immunoglobulin supplement. More importantly, LDL cholesterol, or the “bad” cholesterol most closely associated with heart disease, decreased by 7% while HDL, the “good” cholesterol, remained constant.

So, age alone does not determine health. Nevertheless, it is useful to ask what the difference is between a typical twenty year old and a seventy year old. How is it that one is full of energy and the other, for the most part, is experiencing degeneration of one form or another?

The answer lies in the internal processes of the body, and there are at least four key issues that influence how our bodies age. The first is free-radical damage and electron loss over time. The second, influenced by the first, is inflammation. The third is the clogging up of our cellular receptor sites. The fourth is the strength of the immune system.

Free Radical Damage

Our bodies are made up of approximately 100 trillion cells. Each of our cells is like a tiny battery, producing energy through cellular respiration. As we age, environmental toxins and unhealthy foods containing free radicals – such as fried foods – rob electrons from our bodies (a free radical is a molecule, atom or ion that’s missing electrons in the outer orbit). Free radicals can cause cellular and DNA damage and mutations, and are thought to be responsible for many forms of cancer. Free radicals have also been named as the cause of many symptoms of aging, and one current theory (the Free Radical Theory of Aging) even points to the accumulation of free radicals in the cells as responsible for aging itself.

Whether reducing free radicals can extend lifespan is still under debate and the subject of much ongoing research, but what is certain is that free radicals cause poor cell respiration, fermentation, waste accumulation, acid buildup, and pH derangements in the body. In short, they cause the “batteries” of our cells to emit a weaker charge. Congestion occurs, and our cells become less efficient at pulling in nutrients and expelling metabolic wastes.

Inflammation

When there is poor cellular respiration, as with free-radical damage, inflammation occurs in the body. Chronic inflammation has been linked to the majority of age-related diseases, including Alzheimer’s, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and stroke, amongst others. Evidently, fighting inflammation is high on the list of anyone interested in healthy aging.

Clogged receptor sites

Receptor sites are areas on the cell that pick up and receive hormones and different nutrients and chemicals, and function much like a shipping dock receiving cargo. People today are exposed to so many toxic agents and chemicals that their receptor sites become clogged. Their shipping docks become completely packed with garbage, and they can’t bring anything else into that shipping dock. Their receptor sites cannot assimilate nutrients so well anymore. Over many years of life, the problem is amplified. Hormonal imbalances can occur, such as in the case of xenoestrogens (false estrogens derived from plastics), which bind to the receptor sites, blocking the body’s natural estrogens and thus cause an excess of the hormone in the body.

Keeping the receptor sites clean and free of these foreign chemicals is important for nutrient assimilation in the cell, which ultimately helps to slow aging by keeping the cells producing energy at their optimum levels.

The immune system

As we age, our immune systems tend to get weaker, with the exception being newborns and toddlers, who are still in the process of building their immune systems. As a general rule, the very young and the elderly are the most vulnerable to viruses and bacteria, and a bad infection or case of the flu can lead to secondary health problems, prolonged weakness, or even death. Therefore, a healthy immune system is essential to healthy aging.

So, what is the difference between a seventy year old and a twenty year old?

The difference between the twenty year old and the seventy year old boils down to the cells in their bodies, and how healthy or “charged” they are. The less charge, or current, running through your body, the lower your ability to assimilate essential nutrients, and the lower your ability to eliminate harmful wastes from your system. The seventy year old’s energy has been diminished through the process of free radical damage/electron loss over time, and inflammation has taken over. Receptor sites have accumulated so much junk that nutrients can’t get through, and as a result of all these factors, the immune system no longer responds as it should. There’s not enough energy in the body to wipe out the intruding viruses and bacteria.

Alright already, what can I do about it?

Enough doom and gloom, you’re saying. What can I do about it? Unfortunately, just consuming anti-oxidants or electron donor foods or supplements isn’t enough. Your body has to be able to recognize and transport those electrons to where they’re needed. Your cells need to be healthy and strong enough to pull in those nutrients.

That’s where Protein Extreme Energy comes in. Instead of addressing the symptoms of aging, Protein Extreme Energy focuses on the causes. Taking Protein Extreme Energy is like turning an electrical switch back on in the body. It reverses the energy loss you experience as you age and charges your cellular batteries so that you can begin to fully assimilate nutrients and expel metabolic wastes again. And healthy, energized cells mean a healthy, energized body.

How does Protein Extreme Energy accomplish this? It attacks aging primarily from four angles. The first is by revitalizing and recharging your cells, countering free radical damage. The second is by fighting inflammation. The third is by cleansing cellular receptor sites. The fourth is by enhancing immunity.

Protein Extreme Energy counters free radical damage by providing a high electron load and establishing a recognizable, transferable electron process. Not only are all the ingredients in Protein Extreme Energy electron donors, but because of our proprietary ratio, they work together to augment this effect.

Protein Extreme Energy supports the fight against inflammation in several different ways. Just by addressing electron loss and increasing cell respiration, it is fighting inflammation. However, the immunoglobulins found in Protein Extreme Energy also act to counter inflammation by fighting inflammatory cytokines in the gut. Turmeric, another ingredient in the Protein Extreme Energy formula, has also been shown to have anti-inflammatory properties.

The method by which Protein Extreme Energy cleanses receptor sites is proprietary.

Protein Extreme Energy enhances the immune system by providing the body with more core or vital energy, so that you have enough internal strength to fight viruses and bacteria as they attempt to take hold. The immunoglobulins in Protein Extreme Energy also work hard to supplement your natural immune system by supplying antibodies to the gut, where they fight against invading pathogens.

Overall, Protein Extreme Energy works to re-establish the life current in your body, so that you can recover the youthful vitality you’ve lost over time.

Copyright 2009 LifeHealthSecrets