Benefits of Kombucha Tea

A Healthy Digestive Tract

Learn how to ferment beverages, Pro-biotic drinks are good for us, they aid digestive health and they give our digestive system balance. Probiotics – means “for life.” It is used to describe products which include microorganisms that are beneficial to health.

The intestinal microflora is carefully balanced. The human gut is home to around 400 different species of good and bad bugs. However, the good bugs have to share their environment with bad bugs such as Salmonella, E.Coli and Clostridium. The way to balance between good and bad bacteria is to maintain good digestive health, creating stable “microflora”. It is generally recommended that probiotics are taken on a daily basis to create this balance.

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A New Perspective on Stress

A lecturer when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked ‘How heavy is this glass of water?’ Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, ‘The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it.

If I hold it for a minute, that’s not a problem.

If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my right arm.

If I hold it for a day, you’ll have to call an ambulance.
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Intestinal Bacteria- Antibiotics kill it all off

Here is some important information about antibiotics and probiotics. A must read for anyone!

The chemical drugs so freely prescribed by practitioners of allopathic medicine relieve the overt symptoms of disease, particularly pain, but do nothing to eliminate the root causes which often lie hidden far from the symptoms.

People easily grow dependent on these drugs using them continuously until they develop a tolerance to them, then switching to stronger chemicals. Often the drugs themselves further aggravate the condition, or cause other ailments in related organ-energy systems. The next step is usually surgery.

Antibiotics, which are potent immuno-suppressants, are prescribed for dozens of common ailments. OK, fair enough… But, in the process of killing the bacteria for which they are prescribed, they also kill off all the friendly lactobacteria in your intestines, severely impairing digestion and assimilation of nutrients at a time when your body needs them most.

At times the taking of antibiotics can be necessary, even life saving.

When we take them to kill off infectious bacteria, we also destroy large amounts of the beneficial flora in our digestive tracts.

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Barbara Loe Fisher on Jumbotron Ad Controversy Part 1

This is “Food for Thought” for sure

Barbara Loe Fisher is a pioneer in vaccine education and safety, and the founder of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC).

In an effort to educate and offer a counterbalance to the massive amounts of traditional mass media exposure on vaccines, which rarely ever mentions the potential dangers, we co-sponsored a message that was featured on the New York Time Square’s Jumbotron in March of this year. It was a 15-second spot that ran every hour, 24/7 for five weeks.

To say it caused a stir would be an understatement. Here, Fisher discusses the controversy that ensued. Click on the link below to find out more…

Barbara Loe Fisher on Jumbotron Ad Controversy Part 1.

Thrive the Movie

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This is a movie that is very important to watch. The trailer is a good start but there is also a link to the full version also. Please don’t watch it unless you have the time to watch it from beginning to end, because the ending of the movie gives some real solutions to the problems brought up in the film. Those solution can make the information you will learn about less scary and painful.