The first step to giving yourself a metabolic tune-up is locating and eliminating the causes of damage to the mitochondria:

• Eat less processed food, junk food, sugar, and empty calories. In fact, you should really avoid these things altogether.

• Detoxify by getting rid of environmental and internal toxins.

• Cool off the inflammation in your body.

• Balance your hormones.

Once you’ve done that, you need to boost your mitochondrial function and provide the mitochondria with the correct environment to thrive:

• Try interval training, which increases the efficiency and function of your mitochondria, and strength training, which increases the amount of muscle and the number of mitochondria.

• Eat whole, real, colorful plant food. That’s eight to 12 servings of fresh vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts, seeds, and whole grains every day. These foods are full of antioxidants and phytonutrients.

• Take mitochondria-protective and energy-boosting nutrients such as acetyl-L-carnitine, alpha-lipoic acid, coenzyme Q10, N-acetyl-cysteine, NADH, D-ribose, resveratrol, and magnesium aspartate.

• Increase your intake of omega-3 fats to help build your mitochondrial membranes.

Taking care of your mitochondria and giving yourself a metabolic tune-up will allow you to increase your energy, lose weight, and age well. It is a cornerstone of creating lifelong vibrant health.

from Dr. Mark Hyman

Proper detoxification is so essential for health that you need to start enhancing your body’s ability to detoxify today. Here is how to do it:

1. Drink Clean — Drink plenty of clean water, at least eight to ten glasses of filtered water a day.

2. Eliminate Properly — Keep your bowels moving, at least once or twice a day. And if you can’t get going, then you need some help. This can include taking two tablespoons of ground flax seeds and taking acidophilus and extra magnesium citrate capsules. If you have any chronic diseases or problems, you have to be careful about taking supplements and should work with your doctor.

3. Eat Clean — You should also eat organic produce and animal products to eliminate the toxins, hormones, and antibiotics in your food.

4. Eat Detoxifying Food — You should eat 8 to 10 servings of colorful fruits and vegetables a day, particularly family of the cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, collards, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi) and the garlic family (garlic and onions), which help increase sulfur in the body and help detoxification.

5. Minimize Drugs — Avoid stimulants, sedatives, and drugs, such as caffeine and nicotine, and try to reduce alcohol intake.

6. Get Moving — Exercise five days a week with focus on conditioning your cardiovascular system, strengthening exercises, and stretching exercises.

7. Avoid the White Menace — This includes white flour and white sugar.

8. Sweat — Sweat profusely at least three times a week, using a sauna, steam, or a detox bath.

9. Supplement — Take a high-quality multivitamin and mineral supplement.

10. Relax — Relax deeply every day to get your nervous system in a state of calm, rest, and relaxation. Simply following these steps will help to correct problems caused by toxicity, maximize your body’s own detoxification capacity, and help you safely eliminate toxins stores in your body.

Depending on your symptoms, genetic predispositions and environmental exposures, you may need different levels of nutrients and types of treatment, but this is an excellent way to get started on detoxification today.

Excerpt from:  Dr Mark Hyman

You know my passion for teaching about the silent killer–inflammation

(it is the root cause of aging and every degenerative disease known!) I have found a new juice (only on the market for 3 months) that contains every rare anti-inflammatory betelain ever discovered!  No other plant ever discovered has even half that many betalains! This juice really does gets rid of inflammation!

Yes you can eat better! And you can add an amazing natural anti-inflammatory juice to your diet that CAN reduce your inflammation.

Chronic inflammation is the real epidemic. and I have found the natural answer to this silent killer.

Please educate yourself about it now and read the following article…

Sunday, 12 July, 2009, 1:57 AM
This article is informative and was prepared by a very experienced past Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital, Mesa, AZ.

Without inflammation, cholesterol would not accumulate in wall of blood vessel and cause heart disease

Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake!
By Dwight Lundell, MD
Part 1 of a 2-part article

We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is.  I freely admit to being wrong..  As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact. I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled “opinion makers.” Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.

The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake.  The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease.  Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result inmalpractice.

It Is Not Working!
These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible.The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is thereal cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated. The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before. Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.

Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is noway that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel andcause heart disease and strokes.  Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended.  It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped. Inflammation is not complicated — it is quite simply your body’s natural defense to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus.  The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders.  However, if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process, a condition occurs called chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial. What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body?  Well, smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully.
The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels.  This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.  Let me repeat that. The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet that has been recommended for years by mainstream medicine.
What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.

In Part 2 of this two-part article, I’ll discuss which foods causeinflammation, how those foods trigger the inflammatory process, and the
foods to eat that will cure inflammation.
Part 2
by Dwight Lundell MD
02/06/2009

Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. Let’s say you kept this upseveral times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now. Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.
While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.

How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation to make you sick? Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into each cell where it is
stored for energy. If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works..When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.
What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall. This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation. When you spike your blood sugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like taking sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels. While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator

— inflammation in their arteries.

Let’s get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only contains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean. Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life. While omega-6’s are essential –they are part of every cell membrane controlling what goes in and out of the cell — they must be in the correct balance with omega-3’s.

If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membraneproduces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation. Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of these two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6. That’s a tremendous amount of cytokines causing inflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1 ratio would be optimal and healthy.

To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused by having high blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the inflammatory process continues unabated. There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils. There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation-causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them. One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef. Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to
cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labeled polyunsaturated. Forget the “science” that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today. The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation.
Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.

What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet.

[Ed. Note: Dr. Dwight Lundell is the past Chief of Staff and Chief of
Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital, Mesa, AZ. His private practice, Cardiac
Care Center was in Mesa, AZ. Recently Dr. Lundell left surgery to focus on
the nutritional treatment of heart disease. He is the founder of Healthy
Humans Foundation that promotes human health with a focus on helping large
corporations promote wellness. He is the author of The Cure for Heart
Disease and The Great Cholesterol Lie )

People are experiencing incredible results with the reduction of debilitating symptoms caused by chronic inflammation. This is definitely a product for our era.

I want to introduce another person who has had a life-changing experience with the cactus juice. Valerie B. has suffered for 25 years from the symptoms of fibromyalgia (an inflammatory condition). Here is her story:

“I have been taking cactus juice  for approximately two months now at two ounces per day. I have suffered with Fibromyalgia for about 25 years, which has affected pretty much every muscle in my body, as well as chronic fatigue. I’ve also had low back pain due to an accident, and I have been very limited to any kind of physical work. After taking the cactus juice for about a week, I decided to go out and try to do some work in the garden. I usually don’t do very much, but this particular day, I felt pretty good. Well, before I knew it, I had been out there for four hours. I moved earth and replaced plants. It just felt too good to stop! I ran out of the juice once, and boy could I tell a difference. I knew then that the juice was working for me, and I keep it on hand at all times. I really like the cactus juice and have shared its success with my landscaper who takes an anti-inflammatory medication every day when he gets home from work. As well, I’ve shared it with my sister who has rheumatoid arthritis. I hope to get them both on cactus juice soon! Also, I have vertigo. I have just realized that I have not had a dizzy spell since I have started the cactus juice. My husband has noticed it also. He says he can’t call me a dizzy blonde any more!”

As Brazos Minshew has said so many times, “If inflammation is the problem, then cactus juice may be the solution.” It sure was in the case of Valerie.

If you would like more information or want to try this wonderful juice call me.
Danette
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Are you still alive?

Maybe not willingly…but alive nonetheless?

All things considered, if you still have a pulse, give yourself a tremendous pat on the back because you just survived what I consider to be the mother load of all transitions.

For the first time ever on this journey, I actually had a passing thought that we might not make it home after all. It wasn’t a lasting thought, but it was a thought… and after all the hard work and the agonizing slow death of our past lives, I was SERIOUSLY in a bad way and needing answers.

Barely able to hang on a second longer, I had to call on the big guns to find out what… in God’s holy name… happened to us, and more importantly WHY?!… this is what I learned from Metatron:

Just prior to, during and following the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century, there was a massive energetic centrifuge of divine love that was built and held around many of the old patriarchal planetary structures that have been gradually dismantling.

This centrifuge acted as an energetic separation container, a protective armor for the falling reality systems of masculine imbalance to prevent any unnecessary damage to the human psyche during this very powerful event.

Because so much energy was required to sustain this electromagnetic force field, the help and willing participation of wayshowers across the planet was summonsed for July 22nd and to assist in the divine plan. This soul-level participation enabled the activation of copious amounts of love though the divine feminine to hold the space for, and to counterbalance a massive masculine heart-opening.

This was successfully achieved by many selfless anchors who held the light of sacred love within their hearts, minds and bodies as we collectively made this dangerous transition through the most powerful of an astonishing six eclipses this year!

As a result, those starseeds/lightworkers who participated felt and are still feeling the physical, mental and emotional ramifications of such a monumental act of love as the outworn and imbalanced paradigm gracefully, yet pertinently perishes under our new sun.

Holy Heart Openings!

The sacred centrifuge that was being held in place by many of us over the last several days served to protect humanity and the earth from unnecessary catastrophe and strife while the solar eclipse built up the momentum necessary to blast open the male heart-center.

Apparently, and as I understand it, this centrifuge was created to filter the separation of the largely imbalanced plexus-centered masculine energies of sexual corruption, greed, anger, rage and power-over others, from the divinely balanced heart-centered masculine energies of grounded empowerment, organized structure, supportive co-creation and the leadership regulation necessary to balance the free-flowing energy of the divine feminine.

These two potent forces collided and merged through an absolute act of divine grace which will enable the balance of both male and female energies to run concordantly through the human body.

For those who participated in this extraordinary event, you may have experienced some of the physical & emotional discomfort associated with the solar plexus and heart clearings….

Mentally you may have noticed a need to use extra discipline in keeping your thoughts centered and clear.

Emotionally, this may have accounted for any volatile feelings of EXTREME irritability, rage, anger, anxiety, or sudden short fuses. At worst, you may have had to talk yourself off the ledge.

Physically this clearing manifested in many uncomfortable ways, however, the most unique to the solar plexus and heart openings seemed to come in the form of odd soreness in the abdomen muscles/solar plexus area (kind of like you did too many sit-ups or crunches), relentless heartburn/indigestion-turned-nausea, heart flutters/palpitations/skipped beats, middle/upper back pain…directly behind the heart, between the shoulder blades (kind of like you’ve been stabbed in the back but forgot to remove the knife). Also because the heart area (chakra) also governs the lungs & breasts you may have experienced bronchial clearings and/or unusual sensitivity/soreness/swelling in the breasts if your a female. (kind of like PMS on steroids)

The rapid cellular detoxification caused by these intense clearings can also surface on the skin in the form of rashes and/or itching especially on the torso. (kind of like eczema meets heat rash) A clearing of this magnitude can push physical toxins out of the body faster than our organs can process, so skin eruptions are common.

In addition to those specialty issues, there was also an assortment of the usual symptoms experienced from a major energetic shift/download: sinus congestion, sore throat, stiff neck, body aches, lower back pain/stiffness, lower intestinal clearings, sudden bouts of vertigo, seasonal allergy-like symptoms, deep fatigue, restlessness, insomnia/deep-sleeps, weird dreams, food cravings (protein), bloating, weight gain/loss, aching/stiff joints, etc.

“This excess of masculine energy that is being transmuted through the willing lives and bodies of wayshowers is very potent and it is only those warrior beings who embody high levels of love and light who have the ability and experience to properly clear these morphonegenetic fields . In other words, this is their area of expertise.” -Metatron

This unbelievable task laid the foundation for balanced divine human creation and is enabling centuries of patriarchal imbalance and westernized dominance to take its rightful place in support of the divine feminine.

The Creepy Stillness

An eclipse always seems to stop time, energy, and movement… but this eclipse was beyond that and could definitely be felt during the 3 day energetic window (and still to some degree) around the July 22nd event. Some of us were being quarantined for protection, some souls departed, and even more souls landed in what I call the cosmic way station…not entirely here or there, but in a safe in-between place to choose. These are alternative reality structures apparently created as a fall back plan for those souls who couldn’t make the complete jump.

If you were one of the lucky few who were able to maintain an upright position through the transition, you may have noticed this “quarantined” stillness through apathy or disconnect while walking around in a daze and wondering what to do with yourself and life. This was also apparent in financial stagnation, blocked communication with others… even the wind seemed still.

But this period of stillness acted as a sacred severing of the past to enable us to freely move forward into the new and true. In retrospect, I now believe that the “radical alterations to earth’s holographic reality structures” that Metatron referred to in the last transmission was actually a reference to this whole transition…a kind of preemptive spirit-booster to carry us straight through hell.

“The magnificence of this extraordinary event (July 22nd solar eclipse) seals your creative ability to take conscious control of your destiny, to monitor and align with the christed energies that are beginning to flow unobstructed through your bodies and into the earth’s core for the unscripted creation of a new earth.” -Metatron

What Next?

I am hearing that the upcoming lunar eclipse on the sixth of August will offer closure for past miscreations as well as to initiate our new beginnings based on the now-anchored foundation for the future of earth… meaning these new beginnings will not be based solely in individual desire, but in the shared desire of the highest good for all.

And ass-uming that this may have actually been the last battle for the experienced, yet weary warriors, it is apparently because of this maniacal eclipse sandwich that our roles can now finally be replaced by the next wave of awakening souls. In fact, all divine roles of wayshowers everywhere will be shifting in the month of August and the war decorations for the first infantry division will finally be the freedom of will and the expression of absolute soul integrity in form.

“Those well on the path to cocreating with the Source of Oneness will be catapulted into their rightful place and position to lead the next brigade into unity, however, those still steeped deeply in separation concsiousnes will be presented with the next level challenge of choosing through polar extremes.” -Metatron

I am also being told that there will be physical & financial clearings and miraculous healings coming in the next month… “Those who have major illnesses may be suddenly catapulted to a level of wellness, and those who have been using their bodies and lives as divining rods for the last several years will be brought to a state of balance and perfection.” -Metatron

Post lunar eclipse

Following the August eclipse I am being shown changes of great depth as each of us aligns with our true state of harmonic resonance. This resonant vibration will account for the many miracles and divine synchronicites that will fulfill the lives of all who valiantly participated in this noble venture and journey into oneness.

And keep in mind that although many soul groups (not all) have been responsible for much of the planetary grid clearing while connected to the 3d dimensional hologram since 2000/2001, this was just part of our J O B and once we are freed from these reality structures through completion of our soul contracts, we will no longer be fettered by these celestial events and astrological happenings. In other words, we will be residing in a vibration that is no longer “bound by the governance of earthly (karmic) law”…as Metatron put it.

So until we integrate the energies from the next lunar eclipse, be sure to take a much-needed rest to restore your biology and be super nurturing to your self (sleep when needed, drink lots of pure water, take walks in nature, soak your bones in sea salt baths, etc). Remember too that as the heart center adjusts to these new frequencies it will require extra care…it is important to refrain from straining the heart through vigorous exercise/stress/or any kind of overzealous activity at this time.

Very soon we will be able to exhale, retire, quit our spiritual J-O-B’s and LIVE as we had intended for so long. Our creativity, joy, passion and forward movement will return once again and we will be permanently and firmly anchored in our new and true home.

In the meantime….kick back, put on your 3D glasses, and enjoy the show!

Be with you post-eclipse in early August,

Lauren

ThinkWithYourHeart.net