10 Critical Wellness Comments Everyone Should Question
Critical Comment # 1 “My Doctor Knows What Is Best For Me”
Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth. Doctors today are hard pressed for time and most don't have the time to investigate new technologies. They could not possibly educate themselves on all of the new discoveries that are literally coming out daily. Most doctors are not educated on nutrition, but rather trained on drugs by the pharmaceutical companies and their representatives.
Moreover, most doctors are stuck in this medical paradigm of surgery and prescription drugs being the answer to your health challenges. They're untrained when it comes to using nutritional solutions to help their patients.
A generation ago when we were getting more nutrition from our foods and people were using drugs sparingly, this wasn't such a glaring issue.
Drugs clearly are not the answer to treating chronic illness!
Responsible physicians will admit they have no cure for chronic diseases.
The use of drugs by physicians represents a virtual epidemic responsible for killing 250,000 to 500,000 people annually.
How could something toxic that will make you literally sick if you took it when you’re healthy be the answer for your long-term health and wellness?
It’s clear the health and wellness industry is making a shift away from pharmaceutical drugs. If you truly believe pharmaceuticals are the way to go, take a look at what some of the more enlightened doctors are saying nowadays…
1. “The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians superstitiously give in order to affect a cure”
- Charles E. Page, M.D.
2. “Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very nature they can only work symptomatically”
- Hans Kusche, M.D.
3. “If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity”
- O.W. Holmes, (Professor of Med. Harvard University)
Hard to believe I know, but it's the truth. Once you see it as such, more options will open up for you to be proactive in your health and wellness. The key, as you know, is to first recognize the problem.
It is our goal to assist you to move from this limiting medical paradigm relying on pharmaceuticals, surgeries and other methods of treating a symptom with a disease name to one with prevention and wellness that will address the actual problem, not the symptom.
We're going to assist you with your health and wellness through our complimentary newsletter and also in follow up email messages. We will share with you detailed wellness strategies to help make the change from a symptom treatment to a wellness option much easier.
Since change is inevitable, when you understand what is happening in your life the change will be manageable. You will be able to improve your quality of life when it happens.
Contact us at pluswellness4women@gmail.com for more wellness information.
Critical Comment # 2 “Pharmaceuticals Are the Answer to Wellness”
This, of course, is also a huge critical comment that has been perpetuated on you by the health care industry and the pharmaceutical giants who naturally have a lot of power in terms of money and influence in government policy.
Too much emphasis today is on the magic bullets advertised on television to fix sickness. You may have been thinking that drugs cure disease.
Wellness is about the body not symptoms and a disease name. Even with drugs, the body does the healing. Drugs are designed to offer symptom relief by blocking or intercepting natural biological activity until the body fixes itself.
Drug symptom relief however, can be costly. The drug companies spend 96 million dollars a day on advertising. The US is number 1 in the world in usage of drugs, while we rank number 37 in performance and number 72 in level of health.
The pharmaceutical industry is a 2 trillion a year industry. Disease continues to increase and also at a younger age.
Did you realize that pharmaceutical related deaths from properly prescribed drugs has been the 3rd largest killer in the United States for the last dozen or so years? Don’t you find it interesting how that little known fact is somehow overlooked when all you hear about is cancer and heart disease?
Pharmaceuticals are not the answer. They cannot heal you of any condition; they just merely silence certain symptoms of a larger problem your body is trying to communicate to you!
Why not give your body what it needs for health and wellness (vital nutrients just like Mother Nature intended)!
Critical Comment # 3 “My Body Gets Nutrients It Needs From My Vitamins”
This, perhaps, is the most widely believed critical comment in the wellness field today.
Yes, absolutely, you need to supplement your diet with vitamins on a daily basis. However, here are the problems:
1. Well over 90% of vitamins on the market today are not fully absorbed by the body. This means that the whole reason for taking them is nullified! What is the point of taking a vitamin that will just go right through you?
If you don't believe me, just ask anyone working for the local sewage plant about the "tablet" bricks that exist in the fecal material that are essentially undigested vitamins!
2. Vitamins should only be a part of your core wellness plan, and never should they be the only aspect of your plan using supplements. In newsletters to follow we will discuss 5 vital nutrients for optimal wellness not just vitamins and minerals.
Other supplement programs come from the symptom model instead of more effective wellness model.
Why isn't it enough just to take vitamins and minerals? Why do I have to take more than one product for optimal wellness?
Rebuilding and maintaining the body is a complex process requiring 5 vital nutrients. Not just vitamins and minerals.
1. Hormone Support (Regulate Cells, Endocrine Support)
2. Feed the Cells Support (Vitamins and Minerals)
3. Protect and Support Cells (Antioxidants)
4. Cell-To-Cell Communication/Immune System Support
5. Fatty Acids
Be patient and take the vital nutrients long term? Maintaining the health of the body is a long-term process.
3. We realize purchasing a good, solid multi-vitamin in the marketplace can be extremely complicated. Your vitamin needs to meet the following criteria before you even consider a vitamin purchase:
A. A food based, all natural, vitamin so your body can recognize it as good and absorb and utilize all of the components. Most vitamin/mineral combinations are created with isolated nutrients that the body may not use.
B. One that dissolves in your body! (Most don't!)
C. One that is scientifically formulated, standardized, and stabilized.
D. One you take on an empty stomach without feeling stomach distress or an after taste.
Critical Comment #4 "I Eat Healthy So My Body Is Getting Nutrients It Needs"
Well, I hear this one quite a bit, and once again, nothing could be further from the truth...
Let's begin by asking the question - "What is healthy eating?"
50 years ago, most people were getting a good diet. Today, the experts say that it is extremely difficult to get proper nutrition.
This is not only because of fast foods, but also because most people do not get 9 to 18 fresh fruits and vegetables daily, and those that we do get are frequently picked before they are ripe and are often prepared in a way that destroys their nutrient value.
Much of the food we eat is grown on land that has been farmed for many years. Fertilizing can make a pretty good fruit or vegetable, but the 4-5 dozen trace elements that should be in the plant are missing because they have not been added back to the soil.
Let's just use the example of the part of your diet that comes from fruit and vegetables. It does not matter even if you are eating 9 to 18 fresh fruits and vegetables daily!
Any nutritionist will tell you the reason you should eat fruits and vegetables is for their "phytonutrients" or "phytochemicals".
Unfortunately, the amount of phytonutrients that are present in today's fruits and vegetables is drastically lower than what it was 50 years ago and our bodies are paying the price!
The answer is you need to supplement your diet with the vital nutrients and replace those phytonutrients we are missing in our modern day diet! Don't cut your body short of what it needs.
There are other elements of a healthy diet that are important too like getting a good ratio of healthy protein and good quality fat with your meals.
We won't go over all the important keys about diet right here. But know that this is something we can address with you, helping you to make healthy choices.
Critical Comment #5 "I Feel Healthy! A Critical Illness or Disease Won't Happen"
Yes, I have heard this one quite often! Don't get me wrong; there is nothing wrong with feeling healthy! However, feeling healthy and actually being healthy may be two very, very different things.
Have you ever heard about some of the athletes who looked to be in the peak of health and suddenly died? Ever thought about the fact that people age over time and may not be aware of severe health issues?
Our bodies are very forgiving and adapt to so many stresses, however, sometimes there's no warning before a sudden death or critical illness.
Let's just take a hard look at the facts and what you are facing in today's world:
- A man's chances of getting cancer during his lifetime are now 48% (almost half) and a woman's chances are now 38%.
- In 1990, 5% of the US population died of heart disease, cancer, or diabetes. Today, 95% of us will die from any combination of these causes.
- In the last 20 years, in spite of billions of dollars spent on research, cancer has moved from the number 8 killer of Americans to the number 2 killer.
- Every year over 500,000 women feel fine before being diagnosed with breast cancer. Over 40,000 of these women die in the US alone every year. Many women have gone to their doctor saying, "This can't be happening to me - I feel fine!"
- For 63% of the women with heart disease, and 50% of the men, a fatal heart attack is their first symptom.
- For the last 2 years, the #1 cause of death in people under age 30 in the U.S. has been cancer.
- 50 years ago, heart disease and cancer were not in the top 20 causes of death in any age group.
- 50 years ago, there were no pediatric oncologists (children's cancer specialists) because there was no need.
- Cancer ranked as the #8 killer in 1985, and is #2 now.
- The World Health Organization (WHO) states that the world's cancer rate is predicted to increase by 50% by the year 2020.
- You may be telling yourself there is nothing you can do about all of these recent changes in our health over the last 20-50 years.
I know that bad news can overwhelm us and make us feel like we have no health wellness options and don't know how to recognize good options anyway.
No options! Nothing could be further from the truth!
All we need to do is go back 50 years and get the nutrients in our diets like our parents and grandparents did.
There is one small problem. We cannot possibly do it today with our food supply because of soil depletion, pesticides, fruits and vegetables being picked off the vines too early, etc. We cannot possibly recreate the diets of those 50+ years ago. Not to mention that many of our foods have been genetically altered and no longer are what we would have called food a generation back.
We cannot do it; however, we can supplement our diet in a way so we do get what they got in their diets 50 years ago!
This is great news! However, you first need to understand the body is programmed for wellness. Your job is to help maximize the body’s innate capability by supplying it with the vital nutrients it requires.
In our complimentary weekly newsletter we will recommend solutions that will have you well on your way to a healthy lifestyle. As individuals we need more options but not the same level of health care.
Critical Comment #6 "All Carbohydrates Are Bad For Me"
Carbohydrates certainly have taken quite a beating over the last few years. Consuming high levels of (refined) carbohydrates, grains and sugars is not good for your overall health.
Have you heard about all of the low carb diets out lately? They're all about cutting down on these starchy foods and we think that would be a good thing to do.
I would estimate 90-95% of most people interested in living and feeling better do not understand there are essential non-fat sugars that are absolutely necessary for proper cellular function within the body.
This is some of the most surprising and important news you may have heard in the last 20 years so read this next part carefully and rid yourself of some of your beliefs!
Normally, we could get these from our diet, however, for many reasons we don’t get what we need! Some reasons these essential nutrients are missing from our 21st century diets are: depletion of our soil, processing of food, fruits and vegetables and being picked off the vines before they ripen, use of pesticides, etc.
Harper's Biochemistry discovered that there are actually over 200 carbohydrate monosaccharides in nature and they are all called sugars.
Only a few of these, however, can be considered necessary biologically active sugars. Heralded as the vital missing link in our diets, researchers have identified up to 8 specific and 3 metabolic intermediate biological sugars that most of us fail to obtain through our diets.
In fact, the average American diet only supplies two of these sugars, creating what may be the most potentially serious nutrient deficiency we face.
Just as there are essential proteins called amino acids and essential fats called fatty acids, biologically active sugars are the newly discovered class of necessary carbohydrate nutrients.
These sugars go directly to the cells where they are incorporated into the cell structures wherever they are needed.
These sugars are so important to our health, that Mother Nature has made provisions to ensure we begin taking them early on in life.
Breast milk contains all of the essential sugars mentioned above. Emerging research continues to support how important breast-feeding is to human development - both short term and long term. Initial feeding with breast milk nourishment most positively affects immune function and brain development.
Here's the bottom line:
Not all crabs are bad for you. In fact, if you don't supplement your diet with these 8 necessary sugars you are not giving your immune system the proper tools with which to fight off all of the harmful things we inevitably face today!
Science has proven that our bodies need 8 necessary sugars so our cells can properly communicate and do their job. We only get 2 from our modern day diet.
What’s the answer?
We need to supplement our bodies so we get all 8 necessary sugars.
Critical Comment #7 "All Antioxidants Work the Same"
What's the secret for living a longer, healthier life? Increase your intake of antioxidant nutrients.
But for millions of people, the challenge has become not just living longer, but living better. The key is to understand nutritional wellness options that protect the body and prevent disease.
The prevailing theory about body chemistry features molecular bad guys (free radicals) and good guys (antioxidants.)
Free radicals break down tissue, injure cells, age the body's organs and set the stage for disease. Antioxidants are the body's protectors. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals, thus slowing the aging process and helping the body resist disease. In order to live longer, healthier lives, we need to increase our intake of antioxidant nutrients.
It's important to live a healthy lifestyle and to avoid excessive stress, which studies show actually increases free-radical production in the body.
Millions of people also take vitamins, minerals and herbs to insure that they are getting enough antioxidant nutrients. Be sure that the supplements you take are ones that are scientifically proven to be absorbed and utilized, otherwise, you are wasting your money and jeopardizing your health.
The bottom line is you will not get these antioxidants from our modern day diet. You need to supplement your diet with antioxidants that have been proven to work in the body and do their job protecting your tissues from harm.
More than 70% of People will die prematurely from diseases caused by or compounded by deficiencies of antioxidants.
It is virtually impossible to get the optimal amount of antioxidants from food alone.
Scientists now believe that free radicals are causal factors of nearly every known disease. By controlling free radicals, antioxidants can make the difference between life and death, as well as influence how fast and how well we age. There is overwhelming scientific evidence demonstrating that those of us who eat a diet rich in antioxidants and take antioxidant supplements will live longer, healthier lives.
Many solutions on the market don’t meet the standards for stability. Many suppliers have produced solutions based on individual nutrients without doing lab and field standard tests on humans for effectiveness.
Our complimentary newsletter will cover many aspects and issues associated with how to choose the right combination of vital nutrients in order to make an effective antioxidant mix. Contact us at pluswellness4women@gmail.com) for more wellness information.
The body is programmed for wellness. Your job is to help maximize the body’s innate capability by supplying it with the vital nutrients it requires.
Critical Comment #8 "I Live In a Rural Area So I Am Not Exposed To Toxins"
Toxins exist everywhere! What are they and how can they adversely affect your health? Here is what you face no matter where you live!
Pharmaceutical drugs are now showing up in our tap and ground water! The first drug was found by accident. Scientists doing their routine tap water tests for pesticides in Berlin, Germany found clofibric acid, a cholesterol-lowering drug. The instruments that found it were calibrated to identify pesticides! The scientists did not recognize the pattern, so they took it to a toxicology lab, which readily identified it.
Many other drugs have since been found in our wells and ground water:
- Lipid lowering drugs
- Analgesics
- Chemotherapeutic drugs
- Antibiotics
- Hormones
- Just to name a few
A summary article on 100 cities found identical results (Chemosphere, January 1998).
Antibiotics:
Stuart Levy, Director for the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance at Tufts University in Boston, MA, states:
“Our concentration of antibiotics is 1000 times higher than in Germany, high enough to affect the growth of E-Coli. This may be causing the bacteria to become medication resistant.”
E-Coli had been discovered in the drinking water of some major and minor US cities.
Estrogen:
Shane Snyder of Michigan State University found enough estrogen (mostly from birth control pills) in Lake Mead to cause male fish to produce female egg protein, and to attempt to lay eggs that they were not equipped to lay. Disbelieving the results, Mr. Snyder repeated his tests 30 times.
Each year the United States produces over 400 billion pounds of synthetic organic chemicals that are all toxic.
This is equivalent to 80 pounds of chemicals per year for every person on the planet. There are currently 55,000 chemical compounds in production.
Of these, less than 1,000 are even tested for toxic effects.
Research shows that there are between 300 and 500 toxins in our tissues today that were never found in the tissues of anyone before 1940. In fact, even the air at the North Pole is polluted with dioxin, one of the worst air pollutants and cancer causing agents. You are breathing dioxin right now and hundreds of other chemicals that you cannot taste, see or smell.
Obviously, toxins are going to be a part of our lives whether we like it or not. All we can do is make sure our body is properly cleansing itself of these harmful toxins so they don’t stay in our system!
In order for this to happen, your body’s cells need to be communicating properly so they can determine what belongs in your body and what doesn’t!
Unfortunately, most of us today are not getting the proper nutrients to our cells so our body can get rid of these harmful toxins!
Also, using a powerful antioxidant and an immune regulator that helps get rid of toxins can really help protect your body!
Critical Comment #9 "I Am Too Young To Worry About My Health Right Now!"
Yes, we hear this comment all the time. Unfortunately, we are seeing people of all ages coming up with illnesses earlier and at a higher rate than ever before!
It’s true, no matter what age you are; your body has wellness needs. If you are not getting what you need from our modern diet, then inevitably your health will pay the price, no matter what age you are.
Here are some important statistics to recognize when talking about age and health:
- All degenerative diseases are on the rise.
- Disease is regularly occurring at younger ages.
- Infants and children are contracting catastrophic illnesses at increasing rates.
- 50 years ago, there were no pediatric oncologists (children’s cancer specialists) because there was no need.
The unfortunate truth is disease is increasing at an alarming rate among people of all ages. No one is exempt from being susceptible to disease!
The quicker you embrace this, the better off you are going to be. Be proactive about your health and give your body what it needs in order to operate the way Mother Nature intended!
Our complimentary newsletter will cover many aspects and issues associated with how to choose the right combinations of vital nutrients in order to have health and wellness. (Contact us at pluswellness4women@gmail.com) for more wellness information.
The body is programmed for wellness. Your job is to help maximize the body’s innate capability by supplying it with the vital nutrients it requires.
Critical Comment #10 "Supplements Don’t Make Much of a Difference"
Out of all of the health critical comments, this is perhaps the most important one for you to recognize and discard.
The belief that supplements don’t make a difference in your overall health is the most deadly belief you can possess in life.
Here’s why. We know no matter what we eat, our diets are not providing the necessary nutrients we so desperately need in order to maintain great health and allow our bodies to function the way they were meant to.
Because of that, not only do we need to supplement our diets, but we also need to supplement them with products that work and are designed to be absorbed in the body just like food would. Here are some facts when it comes to this critical statement…
Many supplements don’t work. This is one of the reasons why people have lost faith in using them. Some of the problems in the supplement marketplace: there are little of the ingredients promised, the supplements are not always tested or stabilized, and many are based on misunderstandings of what is good for the body.
Also, many supplements take a drug like approach—fix the symptom.
There are literally thousands of nutrient supplements that can be potentially beneficial. There are only a small group of nutrients that are absolutely vital on a daily basis. It's when vital nutrients are missing that the body develops problems. At which point many things can be beneficial.
As an example, I walk into the health food store and I tell the clerk a symptom I am experiencing. So what do I need for my problem? I can guarantee you that the first thing the clerk will suggest is the on sale brand of the day for that particular symptom. Now since that's the first thing they will suggest, it probably has the potential to be beneficial.
But, while it may be beneficial the real question should be was it missing from my daily diet that allowed the problem to develop in the first place? The answer is no!
We know that’s not the best approach. The best way is to supplement the systems of the body so it can strengthen, repair, and regenerate in a healthy way.
We recommend using supplements that have scientific testing and validation that have a systems approach to simply put back in the body what we’ve removed through our modern lifestyle.
If you’d like to discuss your current options when it comes to supplementing your diet please contact us at pluswellness4women@gmail.com
