Day: 09/13/2012

Tiotropium Prevents Exacerbations in Some Patients with Severe Asthma.

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In patients with poorly controlled asthma, this agent might be a reasonable option.

Some patients with asthma continue to experience poor lung function despite receiving long-acting β-agonists (LABAs) in combination with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS). Tiotropium is a long-acting anticholinergic (approved for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) that has shown promise in short-term trials for treating asthmatic patients (JW Gen Med Jun 14 2011).

In two replicate, industry-sponsored, randomized trials, 912 adult patients received tiotropium or placebo. All patients experienced at least one severe exacerbation in the previous year and had persistent airflow limitation (mean post-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 second [FEV1], 62% of predicted), despite therapy with high-dose ICS and LABAs, which were continued during the study. At 24 weeks, lung function in the tiotropium group had increased modestly (roughly 100 cc) from baseline FEV1. The interval at which 25% of patients had experienced severe exacerbations was significantly longer with tiotropium than with placebo (282 vs. 226 days). At 48 weeks, the number needed to treat with tiotropium to prevent 1 severe exacerbation was 15. Asthma symptom scores did not reach the predefined clinically significant endpoint. Adverse events were similar in both groups.

Comment: Overall, improvement in lung function and exacerbations was modest when tiotropium was added to therapy in patients who already were receiving high-dose ICS and LABAs. That said, we have little else to offer patients with severe asthma and fixed obstruction. Although tiotropium is not FDA-approved for asthma, I think it is a reasonable option for patients who continue to have exacerbations that require oral corticosteroids or hospitalizations despite maximal asthma therapy. In an accompanying editorial, the writer cautions against extending this finding to all asthmatics, because fixed obstruction might share features with COPD and thus be responsive to the anticholinergic effect. Also, she points out that tiotropium (especially in the fine-mist device used in this study versus the dry-powder device we have in the U.S.) might contribute to risk for death from cardiovascular causes and cautions against its use in patients with cardiovascular disease.

 David J. Amrol, MD

Dr. Amrol is an Associate Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine and Director of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia.

Source: Journal Watch General Medicine

“Exposed: This Book Uncovers the Truth That You Were Never Supposed To Know”

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In 1995 Dr. Andrew Wakefield, a respected gastroenterologist and Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Pathologists, posed two seemingly innocuous questions…

Unknown to him at the time, these two simple queries would pit him directly against some of the world’s most powerful interests – including political, corporate and multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical forces. This book details how those interests seemingly had no interest in the truth and definitely no desire for his questions (and the answers they suggested) to see the light of day…ever.

Over the course of a 15-year nightmare journey, Dr. Wakefield found himself embroiled in an epic personal and professional battle – often fighting against the very institutions typically perceived as being there to protect health and wellbeing at all costs. This book suggests perhaps we are mistaken.

Along the way, Dr. Wakefield would lose his job, his country, his career, and his medical license.

This book describes how, despite being exposed to the toxic underbelly of institutional and commercial medicine, and the pervasive lies, blatant mischaracterizations, libelous attacks, and virulent strong-arm tactics that he faced daily, Dr. Wakefield never lost sight of the reason why he was fighting back:

For the children.

Dr. Wakefield’s odyssey, as detailed in the book, is a shocking reminder that the struggle for truth and justice is not just the stuff of far-off history books.

Indeed, the book describes a responsibility for which we all carry – as mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, and individuals everywhere – and one that defines us, protects us, and can help us achieve a better world for children everywhere.

Why Did Two Questions Cause the Medical Machine to Declare
an Unprecedented War on a Doctor Who Was Only Trying to Help Our Children?

So, what were the two little questions Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues asked that caused such an almighty uproar and reverberated like nails on a chalkboard across the entire world?

According to the book, they were simply this:

  • Is the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine safe?
  • Can the  and intestinal disease?

Now, if it isn’t immediately apparent to you why these questions (and the early clinical findings that came as a result) should be cause for the ensuing chaos that would pour down from all sides, you are not alone.

It seems common sense that any questions – particularly those asked by doctors who just want to help our kids – should be welcomed, right?

It seems appropriate that – when parents started contacting Dr. Wakefield with story after story about their normally developing child who regressed into autism or autism-like states soon after receiving the MMR vaccine – he would want to do whatever he could to learn more.

And, the book asks, doesn’t it make sense that Dr. Wakefield, a gastroenterologist, would take an especially keen interest in these cases since at the same time the children were exhibiting these autistic symptoms, they also were newly experiencing chronic gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms?

The book describes why, from the perspective of parents, many in the medical field, and rational people everywhere the answer is a resounding YES.

We say, “Do whatever it takes to make sure our children have the best, safest, and most effective healthcare… at all times… without question, right?”

One would think so, but – sadly – this book explains how we are not in control:

  • Although we want what’s best for children, we do not have a vested interest in making sure a policy of “medicine for the masses” is left unquestioned…
  • We do not have a multi-billion-dollar financial stake in a status quo vaccination policy…
  • And, we do not rely upon multi-national corporate, pharmaceutical, and political forces to keep our interests in place – regardless of whether they do or do not have anything to do with actually keeping us as a world population safe and healthy…

And according to this book, this is why Dr. Wakefield found himself the author of…

A Misunderstood and Misrepresented Paper…
And a Wake-Up Call for Us All

As explained in the book, by asking these questions and showing commitment to his Hippocratic Oath, Dr. Wakefield awakened some and not in a good way.

When he and his colleagues in London, England later published the early clinical findings of 12 children suffering from autistic regression and bowel symptoms in the eminent medical journal The Lancet, they were about to feel the oppressive and crushing blows of a giant with no interest in playing fair… nor having the truth revealed, according to this book. Indeed, this book describes how:

  • Never in the field of human endeavor has so much been said by so many about a paper that has been read and understood by so few.
  • No medical article in world history has received more attention, been subjected to closer regulatory scrutiny, and had more opprobrium heaped upon it than this Early Report.
  • No paper been misinterpreted and misrepresented more than this important, but relatively humble contribution to the medical literature.

The real question, as posed by this book, is why?

  • Why all this methodical hostility from people and institutions that have been charged with our own safekeeping and health?
  • Why these seemingly unscrupulous attempts to sweep such important questions under the carpet?
  • Why these rigorous efforts to keep mute a doctor who was only attempting to help our children by practicing the standards-based medicine he was trained for?

The book asks: without good answers to these questions, where are we left as a society?

How safe do you really feel when you know these forces are working… and working against you?

According to this Book, What You Need to Ask Yourself Is:

Why should the pursuit of possible links between childhood vaccines, intestinal inflammation, and neurologic injury in children cause such a concerted and systematic effort to discredit, dishonor, and ultimately dispose of Dr. Wakefield and his work?

Could it be the fact that the paper and Wakefield’s recommendation for single vaccines lit the fuse of the ensuing vaccine wars that have spread like wildfire across worldwide media?

Could it be that as a result, 1 in 4 parents feel vaccines cause autism and 54% of parents are worried about the serious adverse effects caused by vaccines?

Or, could it be that this one paper – just an early case series at that – had the very real potential to shine a bright light on the small, but significant number of children who do not respond well to the mass vaccination policy?

It is this last item that might be of the most importance…

According to This Book, What You Need to Know Is:

Families around the world are suffering in silence because the medical machine refuses to acknowledge the validity of their claims…

Parents with nowhere to turn are desperate for help because doctors are afraid to listen and insurance fails to provide coverage…

And, the book asks, children – poor innocent children, your sons and daughters – have to endure life-robbing symptoms that we can’t even begin to imagine all because of what?

  • All because of a global ‘cover up’?
  • All because there are those for who exposing the truth would be costly?
  • All because keeping hush-hush about the few is a better public health policy for the masses?

These questions seem preposterous – these are kids we’re talking about.

Why should anything – profits, inconvenience, reputation, or political backlash – come between them and their health?

Nothing should.

That’s why you will likely be shocked to discover that, as the book details, much does come between your children’s health and wellbeing.

But, you may be even more outraged when you read about how…

His Paper Was Right… But If They Had Their Way, You’d Never Have Known…

According to the book, Dr. Wakefield was right.

The children in his early case series did suffer from a new disease syndrome.

It is not localized to the UK. In fact, it’s been replicated around the world.

His findings and the ensuing studies that emerged are not the half-baked medically-unsound fantasy of a misinformed doctor that so many – inside and out of the medical establishment – claimed that it was.

The book describes how Dr. Wakefield did not do anything wrong. He did not have a conflict of interest. He did not engage in practices that were for his own self glory or financial benefit.

These and literally thousands of other mischaracterizations are what Dr. Wakefield has struggled against for over 15 years.

According to the book, he was simply a man presented with a professional challenge and confronted by a moral choice.

Previously normal children seemed to be regressing into autism and developing intestinal problems. Many of their parents blamed the MMR vaccine.

He chose, as you have seen but a small glimpse of, what would become a very difficult road.

And, now, Dr. Wakefield is finally able to share this story with the world…

Despite the best efforts of those who would seek to erase these children and their stories from the medical and scientific record, as the book describes – the truth is finally upon us.

To say it is an important story, a needed story, is an understatement of heroic proportions.

This often terrifying story is one that affects us all because as Dr. Wakefield says, “If autism does not affect your family now, it will.”

Introducing “Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines
– The Truth Behind a Tragedy”

Long delayed by a wearisome legal process, Callous Disregard pulls back the curtains for a raw and unobscured look behind this health scandal.

Dr. Wakefield’s account surgically explores how he confronted first a disease and then the entire medical system; one that sought (and still seeks) to deny the resulting disease the evidence confirms – thus leaving millions of children suffering to this very day and a world that is still very much at risk.

As you will learn in this book, more and more people on a truly grand scale, either as parents or grandparents, will be tragically affected as the worldwide tsunami of childhood developmental disorders continues to build in scale and breaks hearts and bankrupts educational and healthcare infrastructures.

Callous Disregard gives you an unparalleled opportunity to see the inner workings of one man’s major struggle against compromise in medicine, corruption of science, and a real and present threat to children in the interests of policy and profit.

  • It is an uncompromising story of how “the system” deals with dissent among its doctors and scientists.
  • In a highly readable and engaging format, Dr. Wakefield unflinchingly provides the facts and a complete explanation of the problem that confronted him and his colleagues fifteen years ago.
  • He does this in a detailed forensic analysis of the lies, obfuscation, cover-up, and dystopian science and medicine that panders to commercial interests at the expense of your children.

Conspiracy—or ruthless pragmatism? You’ll read about the reactions of those forces denying this scandal and come to your own conclusions.

The battle has just begun. If the forces for good have any hope to win, you need to…

Educate Yourself: It Could Be the First Step toward Real Change

Callous Disregard sounds a loud and disarming warning bell for us all.

Everybody – young and old – should read it. The book will inspire you to see just what is possible when you stand up for what you believe.

You will also learn in the book just how far the powers that be are willing to go to keep the status quo when their interests are threatened. It’s a frightening lesson, but one you will see firsthand.

The book asks, if the “system” is possible of keeping good medicine from your children what else is it capable of doing? To unborn babies? To the elderly? To everyone in between?

This is not only a treatise that will likely shock you; it will likely rally you to take even greater responsibility for your health and the wellbeing of your loved ones.

At the very least, it serves as a wake-up call to parents and doctors everywhere.

To parents, Dr. Wakefield implores:

Trust your instincts above all else. When considering how to vaccinate your children, read, get educated, and demand fully informed consent and answers to your questions.

When you are stonewalled or these answers are not to your satisfaction, trust your instinct. I say this as someone who has studied and engaged in the science and who has become aware of the limitations of our knowledge and understanding of vaccine safety issues.

And, to doctors as he warns:

Doctors beware: prepare to be second-guessed by medical regulators on your clinical judgment and specifically on whether—despite your training, expertise, and documentary evidence—tests you undertake on the sickest of your patients are clinically indicated or for the purpose of research.

The ultimate message is positive. As Dr Wakefield puts it, “Nature can’t be deceived.” The truth will overcome.

But, in the short term, the message of the book is that we are all in this together.

This book is far from just a parochial look at a trivial medical spat in the UK. It is a dispatch from the frontlines of the battle for your health and safety.

And, now, others on the frontlines are speaking up about his book…

What Others Are Already Saying About Callous Disregard

Dr. Wakefield is no longer alone. Experts from all corners of the world are sounding in on the importance of his book:

 
“I’m so glad Andy Wakefield finally has the chance to tell his story. Perhaps no debate on the planet right now is more confusing, more conflicting, or more maddening for parents than the debate over the causes and treatments of autism . . . For hundreds of thousands of parents around the world, myself included, Andy Wakefield is a symbol of strength and conviction that all parents of children with autism can use to fight for truth and the best lives possible for their kids.”

—from the foreword by Jenny McCarthy
 

 

 
“Dr. Wakefield sets the record straight. It was not he who showed callous disregard towards vulnerable, sick children with autism. It was the British medical establishment, the General Medical Council, the media and the pharmaceutical industry that threw the children under the bus to protect the vaccine program. This is a book for everyone whocares about our future.”

—Mary Holland, Esq., Co-founder, Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy
 

 

“Andrew Wakefield has been subjected to extraordinary criticism and condemnation from professional colleagues and the wider community since he first questioned the safety of the MMR vaccine. In this book he answers his critics—powerfully and comprehensively— and sets the record straight. It is essential reading for anyone wanting to know the truth behind the MMR debate and the politics of vaccination policy.”

—Dr. Richard Halvorsen, author of The Truth about Vaccines

 

“As a mother of a boy who regressed into autism immediately following his MMR vaccination, I welcome this book unreservedly … Whatever your thoughts on the issue, if you read nothing else at all on the vaccine-autism debate, this has to be the most crucial book you read.”

—Polly Tommey, Editor-in-Chief, The Autism File

 

“Meeting Dr. Andy Wakefield changed our lives and … we are forever grateful. His wise and measured advice about vaccinations helped us dodge a bullet . . . Our fourth son [had] multiple allergies and repeated infections . . . We now fully realize [he] would have been a victim of immune overload had we followed the regular vaccine schedule … [He] is [now] bright and healthy . . . This book provides a terrifying insight into what has been happening behind the scenes as efforts redouble to silence Dr. Wakefield . . . It is a wake-up call to those who think [he] is anything other than a modern day hero fighting for all of our children.”

—Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellán, Troublemaker Studios, Austin, Texas

Source: mercola.com

“You Haven’t Tasted Beef Until You’ve Tasted Grass-Fed. When You Do, You’ll Be Hooked For Life.”

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Today more than ever, the source of your food matters. Gone are the days when you could trust your neighborhood butcher or grocer to provide your family with wholesome, fresh food free from unnatural – and dangerous – hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, and herbicides.

Sadly, Big Agriculture and mega-food corporations have largely taken over smaller, family-run operations. We’ve lost the caring connection of those businesses to an unprecedented, almost furious quest putting profit before food quality and even safety.

Their perceived need for cheap, mass produced, convenient food products has unfortunately led to a nutritional deficiency epidemic. As a result, Americans live in a land of plenty, but the bounty no longer provides proper nutrition.

Lucky for us, some of those smaller, caring family-run businesses still exist. And along with them, sources of food as pure as days past and healthier than ever. Untainted by growth hormones and antibiotics, animals are free to roam in pastures free from pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. Perhaps most importantly, these animals are free to eat the food nature intended.

REAL Cows Eat Grass — Not Grains

 

If you love to eat beef, but have recently had concerns about its levels of saturated fat and cholesterol, then you’ll be thrilled with what you’re about to discover.

Cattle were not designed to eat grains. And because of that, their diet of grains in factory farms largely contributes to the negative aspects of eating beef.

The fat content of beef is the primary reason it has lost ground as a respectable entrée on America’s dinner table. Not only do most beef cuts have a high fat content, ranging from 35-75%, but the majority of it is saturated.

“Grain-fed beef can have an omega 6:3 ratio higher than 20:1”– J. Anim. Sci. 2000. 78:2849-2855

This well exceeds the 4:1 ratio where health problems begin to show up because of the essential fat imbalance. Grain-fed beef can also have over 50% of the total fat as the far less healthy saturated fat.

Grass-fed beef has an omega 6:3 ratio of 0.16 to 1.

This is the ratio science suggests is ideal for our diet. This is about the same ratio that fish has. Grass-fed beef usually has less than 10% of its fat as saturated. If you are a pregnant or breastfeeding mom, the extra omega 3 from the grass-fed beef will provide incredible nutritional benefits for your child.

Grass-Fed Beef Enhances Your Health in More Ways Than One…

Compared to grain-fed cattle, grass-fed beef is:

  • Two to four times richer in heart healthy omega 3 fatty acids.
  • Higher in “good” unsaturated fats and lower in “bad” saturated fats.
  • Three to five times higher in CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid) content.
  • Loaded with over 400% more of vitamin A (as beta carotene) and E.
  • Virtually devoid of risk of Mad Cow Disease.

You May Even Lose Weight With Grass-Fed Beef

 

Grass-fed beef is naturally lower in calories. A 6-ounce steak from a grass-fed steer can have 100 fewer calories than the same steak from a grain-fed steer. Simply by switching to lean grass-fed beef, in one year you could save 17,733 calories and lose 6 pounds without changing anything else in your diet.

Here’s another thing about grass-fed beef… CLA is a naturally occurring fat found in animal and dairy fats such as beef and poultry that are not fed grains. As soon as you start to feed cattle grain, they start to lose their ability to produce CLA. Animals that graze on pasture have from 300 to 400% more CLA than animals fattened on grain in a feedlot.

As we all know, diet and exercise are required to lose weight. However, University of Wisconsin research shows that CLA intake assists individuals who lose weight in preventing putting pounds back on.

Obviously, CLA enriched beef will not enable you to lose significant weight without other dietary measures and exercise, so please review my optimal food choice program for additional suggestions.

The human intestine produces CLA naturally from linoleic acid. Recent studies have been conducted on attaining a higher CLA content in daily food intake because of possible health benefits such as weight loss.

You Can Feed Your Family 100% Grass-Fed Beef With Minimal Concern of Deadly Food Infections

Mad Cow has killed nearly 100 people in Europe, and most experts believe that it is related to the way the animals are raised, what foods the animals are fed and pesticides that they are exposed to.

While Mad Cow Disease has not been officially reported in the US, a similar disease, scrapie, has already been reported in sheep in the US.

Mad Cow Disease is notoriously difficult to test for. Adding to the concern it may take over 30 years for Mad Cow Disease to incubate!

Even the conservative Consumer Reports believes that it is possible, and is concerned that Mad Cow Disease may spread to the US.

You can virtually eliminate any potential risk for this problem by restricting your beef intake to grass-fed beef.

Foot and Mouth Disease is a dreaded disease in Europe and they have destroyed many of their cattle as a result of this problem. Foot and Mouth Disease is far less likely to occur in grass-fed cattle, which is why many Europeans are choosing grass-fed for their beef selection.

In addition to the Mad Cow and Foot and Mouth Disease risk, you are probably familiar with the issue of dangerous E. coli infections that have killed people in the past.

Protect Your Family’s Health With Safe Beef

 

Eric Schlosser, who wrote Fast Food Nation, tells us that since 1993, half a million children in America have been made ill by the E. coli bug.

Feeding dead cats and dogs to cattle was legal in the US until 1997 when the government banned the practice because of fears over mad cow disease. Dead horses and pigs, however, are still occasionally ground into cattle feed.

One quarter of America’s minced beef, writes Schlosser, is made from worn-out dairy cattle, likely to be riddled with disease and the meat containing antibiotic residues.

Grain feeding promotes the growth of dangerous E. coli that is more likely to pass through your stomach and infect your colon. When cattle are fed grass, the amount of dangerous E. coli decreases dramatically. (Microbes Infect 2000 Jan;2(1):45-53).

The USDA imposed rules reclassifying as “safe for human consumption” animal carcasses with cancers, tumors and open sores. Do you really want to eat beef like this?

When you feed your family 100% grass-fed beef, you can feel quite confident that you are doing the best you can to dramatically reduce, if not eliminate, the risk of most of these infections.

I Have Been Eating Grass-Fed Beef Since February of 2001

 

I really enjoy the taste and the health benefits of grass-fed beef. I do prepare a good deal of ground beef for myself as that is easy for me to put in my salads. I have found that I can cook four pounds of the ground beef and there is only about six ounces of fat that I drain off.

But the amazing thing is that the fat is a completely different color than grain-fed beef. It is nearly clear and much thinner. This should not be surprising, but is an interesting physical confirmation of the huge difference there is in the fat between these two types of food.

The flavor, look, smell, and texture of grass-fed beef differs slightly from grain-fed beef. Many enjoy it immediately because it actually tastes like beef is supposed to taste. Others, accustomed to the blander taste of mass-produced beef, may be surprised by its fuller, richer flavor.

I have many patients who were raised in rural sections of Europe where this is the only type of beef they ate. When they came over to the US they were very disappointed with the flavor of our grain-fed beef. So it is all a matter of what one is used to.

Due to the lower fat content in grass-fed beef, you may want to experiment a little with various cooking methods to find what works best for you.

Real Grass-Fed Beef Can Be Difficult to Find

Much of the beef you find, even in health food stores, is from grain-fed cattle. Just because beef is labeled “organic” doesn’t mean it is grass-fed. The label must specify “grass-fed” to be truly grass-fed beef!

It may be true that the animals are given grains that are organic. However, organic grain-fed beef is only marginally better than commercial grocery store beef where the grains the animals are fed are not organic.

So don’t pay twice as much for organic grain-fed beef and continue to get inferior quality.

The best way to purchase grass-fed beef is to find a local rancher who is raising grass-fed cattle and then purchase the meat from him. This will save you the shipping.

Unfortunately, most of us city dwellers do not have easy access or even know ranchers who are raising grass-fed cattle. That is why I have partnered up with an exceptional company to provide superior 100% grass-fed beef for you.

Introducing a Passionate Approach to Grass-Fed Beef

Our customers rely on us for the best tasting organic meats in the country.

And here’s why…

  • The cattle are raised by farmers and ranchers who are just as passionate when it comes to raising great tasting meats.
  • We insist on 100% satisfaction with every interaction you have with us – from ordering on the internet or on the phone to receiving and unpacking your order.
  • After spending countless hours talking with hundreds of ranchers and taking the time to ensure both the animals and land are well cared for, we ensure the cattle receive the different types of nutritious forage they need.
  • Rather than using common, but cheap, wet aging, we use only expensive 21-day dry-aging methods to bring you a concentrated, rich, natural beef flavor. Dry aging allows the meat’s natural enzymes to break down tough connective tissue, giving you a more tender product.

Our Meats Come from A Certified USDA Organic Supplier

 

Our organic meat is certified United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) organic. Every ranch is visited by a Government-approved inspector to ensure animals are raised according to USDA organic standards.

What does this mean for you?

  • NO antibiotics or synthetic growth hormones.
  • Animals are allowed free access to the outdoors and pastures.
  • NO conventional pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, bioengineering, or ionizing radiation.
  • Encourages the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water to enhance environmental quality for future.

However, we have taken it one step further…

 

“Beyond Organic” – We Take It to a Whole New Level

“Take Your Food to the Salt” and Transform Any Dish From Ho-Hum to Spectacular

Don’t just salt your food with Himalayan Crystal Salt, take it to the slab!

Featured on several top cooking shows, using a Himalayan Salt Kitchen Slab has become the newest sensation for extraordinary food preparation and presentation.

Simply preheat your crystal salt slab over a grill or stove and toss on your favorite sliced meats, seafood, vegetables or eggs. The Himalayan Salt sears your food to perfection, with a just a light touch of heavenly salty mineral sweetness.

The Himalayan Salt Kitchen Slab is perfect for cold foods, too. Just chill your slab in the refrigerator and then load with sushi, hors d’oeuvres, cheeses and slices of fruit. You’ll love the delicate saltiness imparted to your food and the beautiful translucent pink salt serving platter will become an instant conversation starter.

For a special treat, arrange thin strips of raw grass-fed beef on your chilled slab and watch as the salt cures the edges.

Chill slab in the freezer overnight and serve ice cream on top for a beautiful presentation and delicate salty-sweet goodness.

To demonstrate our absolute commitment to the environment and the original intent of organic agriculture, we go “beyond organic” and use farms that are completely self-sufficient and sustainable.

Our ranchers treat their animals humanely. Allowing them to graze freely, they rotate pastures to allow the grass and soil to replenish naturally. Cattle are only fed forage from the ranch. No synthetic growth hormones or antibiotics are used.

Commonly used in factory farms, growth hormones make cattle grow faster. Not only are they suspected of causing negative health effects in humans, they contaminate surface and groundwater. The widespread overuse of antibiotics in farm animals has contributed to the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, making it more difficult to treat serious human disease.

Farms that practice sustainable agriculture are good for the environment. By reducing their use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers and using less fuel to truck in pesticides, fertilizers and feed, they decrease chemical run-off and the dependence on foreign oil. These farms have a smaller carbon footprint and help replenish and rejuvenate the land for future generations

Source: mercola.com

“When NOT to Take Your Multivitamin…”

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If you take your multivitamin at this particular time, you could be losing impact and throwing your money away. The quality of your health could very well depend on taking the right kind of multi – at the right time…

If you’re currently taking or considering taking a multivitamin with a recommended serving size of only one pill a day, you’re pretty much wasting your time.

Why?

It’s very doubtful that any single pill can pack enough vitamins and minerals to truly make any real difference in complementing your healthy diet.

Producers of multivitamins have come up with some pretty amazing ways to compress natural nutrients, but not to this extreme… not down to where a single tablet provides you the vitamin and mineral levels you need.

And speaking of minerals, many producers of one-a-days don’t even bother including essential minerals like potassium or magnesium, or even calcium in adequate enough amounts to really make a difference.

What about other nutrients from natural sources like vegetables, fruits, and herbs? Shouldn’t they be blended into your multi as well? I certainly think so.

But it’s also vitally important to know when to take your multivitamin.You should take a few multi tablets first thing in the morning and with lunch, or with an early dinner to help optimize your nutrient absorption, the better chance you’ll have of truly fortifying your diet.

Before we jump further into all the natural nutrients I believe should go into a multi, let’s first take a closer look at why all multivitamins are not created equal.

Some may in fact, negatively impact your health in such a way they should be flushed down the toilet.

Here’s…

Why You Should Avoid Synthetic Isolates Like the Plague…

In my opinion, if you shop for your supplements at discount stores, you may be seriously shortchanging yourself because those products typically use cheap synthetic isolates.

Millions gorge themselves on synthetic vitamins, only to acquire and die from degenerative diseases.

You see, isolated vitamins are partial vitamins, combined with other chemicals. They’re a low-end alternative to whole, real complete food.

When you remove a part from the whole, you get ‘Synthetic,’ ‘Isolated,’ or ‘Fractionated’ pieces of the whole, but it’s simply not the same.

There are four problems with synthetic vitamins…

  1. Nature intended for you to consume food in WHOLE form because all the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and enzymes are together in one package. They work synergistically to give your body the nutrition it requires for optimal health.
  2. Your body only absorbs a small percentage of an isolate form of vitamins and minerals – and it utilizes even less. You get the best bioavailability in whole food form.
  3. Synthetic vitamins often give you massive quantities of some nutrients (usually the most inexpensive ones) and insufficient quantities of others, not balance.
  4. You can experience side effects of synthetic isolates from the additives and the unnatural state of the synthetic supplement.

You’ve heard me say it before… Fast food and a sedentary lifestyle can be a disaster for your health.

Don’t let your multivitamin add to the collateral damage.

In fact, you want to be sure it makes a real and significant contribution to your health, especially if you’ve already adopted healthy lifestyle practices.

After all, I’m quite sure you’re one of the nearly 100% of the human race who wants to feel on top of the world…. All the time.

Who in the World Doesn’t Want to
Feel Great All the Time?

One thing you can always do to optimize your health and feel great is to maximize your immune system’s capabilities.

Because face it – everybody wants to feel well all the time, don’t they?

There’s no better time to get started than right now then, is there? After all, there’s no time like the present…

Now is the time to start moving toward a healthier diet and lifestyle. Start today, by adding just one raw vegetable per day to your diet… a small, do-able step toward your better health.

Why Make These Changes Today?

Because today is the first day of the rest of your life! Why wait?

Ideally, it is best to receive all your nutrition from high quality unprocessed foods. Unfortunately, if you’re like most people, you may find it impractical or impossible to eat right one hundred percent of the time.

Therefore, even when you take the steps of adding raw veggies to your diet and getting some exercise and vitamin D, you still might want to hedge your bets by supplementing with a quality multivitamin every day – just to be sure.

What Can a Multivitamin Do for You?

While I cannot endorse the practice of sloppy eating and a sedentary lifestyle while taking a supplement to cover for reckless lifestyle choices…

It is true that multivitamins do help promote your optimal health and strong immune system, providing support for defense against a growing number of health concerns*. At least, some of them do. More on that in a moment…

Taking pro-active steps, including taking a multivitamin to help maintain and boost good health and wellness is still one of the best things you can do for yourself and your health…*

Especially if you’re already adhering to a smart lifestyle with a healthy diet, exercise, adequate sunshine and good sleep.

However, there are important issues for you to remember…

Higher Potency and Even More Nutrients for You

I received quite a bit of feedback that you wanted an even more comprehensive formula than my original Whole Food Multi. So I went back to the drawing board and worked with my team to come up with an extraordinarily powerful formula — at a fantastic price.

Here’s the stringent criteria I used to find you the best high-potency multi on the market:

  • Must AVOID additives or synthetic nutrients — I only considered natural and whole food-based multivitamins.
  • Must be produced by a highly reputable company with the highest quality control manufacturing practices in place — I focused on quality as a higher priority than quantity.
  • Must go beyond RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) and RDI (Recommended Daily Intake) guidelines — In my opinion, RDA/RDI amounts define the lower limits of daily nutrient intake. I wanted the best nutrient formula to promote your optimal nutrition
  • Must include the added bonus of essential minerals — Minerals add their unique layer of nutritional support*. Many high-potency multivitamins with rich vitamin concentrations lack important minerals.

Before I jump into all the details of this exclusive multivitamin and its power-packed formula now available to you, you might be wondering…

Why Not Just Eat All-Natural Whole Foods?

 

Excellent question — and one you deserve an answer to…

As you already know, I’ve been a proponent of eating whole foods for proper nutrition for years… and now — eating the proper whole foods based on your Nutritional Type (NT).

So, in recommending a high-quality multivitamin, please remember that these nutritional supplements complement the food you eat. They do not take the place of a healthful diet of unprocessed organic foods, which I believe is still the best physical factor for you to achieve optimal nutrition.

However, accessing and eating high quality foods regularly may be a personal challenge for you and your family. Your busy schedule may lead you to cook healthy whole food less than you know you should — and eat “fast food” more.

Even if you do well with your diet choices, another factor involves the actual food supply itself.

Up to 50% of the Nutrient Value of Your Food May be
Lost from the Start

A number of carefully controlled studies have provided startling evidence that by the time the food reaches your table, serious nutrient content could already be lost.

Some estimates report the nutrient value lost at over 50%!

This is largely the result of conventional farming methods that rely heavily on chemical fertilizers and pesticides, which deplete the soil of nutrients… nutrients that must be absorbed by plants in order to be passed on to you.

And it does not necessarily end there.

In many cases, it’s likely you unknowingly further deplete the nutrients in your food — just by the way you prepare it. For most food, cooking it will seriously impair its nutritional value.

So, realizing that you cannot always obtain the whole unprocessed foods you need — and knowing how easy it is for valuable nutrients to be destroyed — you now know why I believe adding a good multivitamin to complement your diet is a sound move.

Why Settle For Inferior Quality?

There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of high-potency multivitamins on the market today… but there are only a few great ones out there. If you are convinced of the importance of using a multivitamin, then I would strongly encourage you to do your homework, and make sure a GREAT company produced it.

When I first started my investigation, I was absolutely shocked at the low quality demonstrated by so many companies. That’s why I spent many long months of hard effort to research and identify what I believe is the absolute best supplement manufacturer in the U.S. today.

After much tedious and careful research, I was able to identify an outstanding supplement manufacturer — one who allowed me to help formulate the best multivitamin possible for you.

The lab I chose has won outstanding awards on numerous occasions:

  • One of the latest awards received by this lab was the 5-Star Gold Medal of Achievement for several of its supplements. The independent research firm, NutriSearch Corporation, issued this top award to the lab in its Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements.
  • Of the over 1500 products evaluated, only 4 laboratories received this top award.

Why Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals is Better than the Rest

Let’s take a closer look at some key nutrients in Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals that are often missing from other multivitamins (or found in such low amounts that their effectiveness is highly limited).

Remember, one of my top criteria for providing you with the best high-potency multivitamin was that it must contain essential minerals. As I searched for the right formula, I quickly realized that many so-called high-potency multivitamins are seriously lacking in mineral content.

However, with my unique Multi +Plus formula, you’ll benefit from many specially selected minerals… including these 3 essential ones:

 

  • Calcium — To provide a high-level of support for your skeletal system, I chose to include a high amount of calcium in the Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals formula*. My main reason for doing this was that, as you age, your need for calcium becomes more and more important to promote healthy bones*.

A recent study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported that people should consume 741 mg per day of calcium to maintain neutral calcium balance.

Realizing the importance of eating as much unprocessed whole food as possible to get the minerals you need, my Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals formula provides 250 mg of calcium to complement your healthy diet.

  • Magnesium — Scientific studies have reported that magnesium is helpful in supporting your lungs and overall pulmonary system*. But some lower-potency multivitamins don’t include this ingredient.

Other research shows that magnesium intake promotes bone density health.* It also helps maintain your muscular and nervous systems.* And helps support a healthy heart, and your energy needs.*

So you can see why magnesium is such a key mineral in my Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals formula.

  • Potassium — This important mineral helps regulate your circulatory system and promotes your heart health.*

In addition, research has shown that potassium is another important element in your bone density health.* As you age, bone density becomes an important element in your overall health.*

Once again, please realize the importance of eating a healthy diet rich in unprocessed whole foods. Many processed foods lose valuable potassium content prior to ever reaching your table.

These minerals may be worth their weight in gold. They provide you with significant health-supporting value in complementing your diet*. They’re part of the added bonus that clearly makes Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals stand apart from the rest.

But it doesn’t stop here. Take a look at more of the remarkable benefits of my new high-potency multi. It’s the…

High-Potency Antioxidant Formula to Help You Balance
Out Free Radicals*

First of all, I made every effort working with the award-winning lab to ensure that as many nutrients as possible ended up directly linked to their natural source. To me, this became crucial in providing you a top-notch supplement.

Multivitamin +Plus’s formula has natural value built into it.

It provides you with a highly concentrated daily supplement containing more than 50 nutritional ingredients… all in a special herbal food base.

One of the challenges your body faces every day is combating free radicals.

Free radicals are highly reactive molecules and fragments of molecules that may impact your body at your cellular level.

Free radicals constantly attack your body proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and DNA, and can cause potentially serious health concerns unless they are kept in check. Every cell in your body suffers an estimated 10,000 free radical hits each day. Your body does its best to fight back — in what is an actual battlefield at the cellular level.

To help balance the effects of free radicals, Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals provides you with high-potency amounts of an exclusive antioxidant formula that includes:*

  • Natural beta-carotene — healthy vision and immune system support*
  • Vitamin C — promotes tissue growth and repair, and healthy gums*
  • Vitamin D3 — supports heart, bone, vascular and immune system health*
  • Vitamin E — helps support your muscular system*
  • Selenium — bolsters your healthy immune system*
  • L-cysteine — supports your immune and respiratory systems*
  • Lutein — helps promote your healthy vision*
  • Lycopene — supports your immune system*
  • Red wine proanthocyanidins — provides cardiovascular support*
  • And select extracts and powders from over 25 fruits, vegetables, and herbs

And it gets even better …

Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals Provides You an Incredible Formula Based on Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Green Foods

In addition to the outstanding nutrients already discussed, the Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals formula includes a health-promoting blend of vegetables, fruits, herbs, and green foods…from natural sources as far as possible.

When this was impractical with certain nutrients, a highly bioavailable form was used to ensure you could take full advantage of these nutrients*.

Now you can see for yourself the remarkable ingredients included in the total Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals formula.

Over 2000 mg of nutrients based on vegetables, fruits, herbs and green foods are intentionally included in the Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals formula… nutrients that promote your optimal health in the following ways*:

Nutrients Your Body Systems Supported and Promoted*
Red wine proanthocyanidins Cardiovascular
Blueberry Urinary tract and immune
Garlic Digestive and immune
Green tea extract Immune
Sprouted barley juice Cardiovascular/heart
Wheat grass juice Immune and anti-aging
Broccoli Prostate and immune
Cauliflower Circulation and immune
Spirulina Nervous and tissue
Chlorella Cardiovascular and immune
Green papaya extract Digestive and skin
Beet extract Immune
Apple pectin Immune and lungs
Bromelain Respiratory and digestive
Rose hips Skeletal
Lemon bioflavonoids Immune
Rutin Circulatory and immune
Hesperidin Vascular and immune

 

And it doesn’t stop there…

There’s an additional 700 mg of a proprietary vegetable and fruit base, further promoting your optimal health, including:

  • Kale — provides healthy prostate support*
  • Spinach — helps support your cardiovascular and immune systems*
  • Carrot — assists optimal vision and cholesterol level*
  • Radish — supports your digestive, respiratory, and nervous systems*
  • Celery — provides you with skeletal and nervous system support*
  • Apricot — promotes your respiratory and immune systems*
  • Blackberry — helps support your digestive and immune systems*
  • Cranberry — supports your urinary tract and cardiovascular system*
  • Grape — promotes healthy circulation and cholesterol level*
  • Pineapple — provides healthy respiratory and digestive support*

And now we’ve added a significant enhancement to our Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals…

We’ve Added What I Consider a Superior Form of Folic Acid
to Help Ensure You Don’t Get Cheated

Folic acid, or folate, an important member of the B-vitamin family, plays many important roles in your body. Folic acid:

  • Helps maintain normal blood homocysteine levels *
  • Helps nourish the brain and supports mood*
  • Supports protein metabolism*
  • Supports energy production*
  • Promotes normal formation and functioning of red and white blood cells*

For folic acid to perform all of these crucial duties in your body, it must first be activated into the biologically active form – L-5-MTHF. This is the form that’s most usable by your body and the form that’s able to cross the blood-brain barrier to carry out important brain functions.*

However, the form most commonly added to nutritional supplements is folic acid. And here’s the problem: Nearly half of the population has difficulty converting folic acid to the bioactive 5-MTHF form because of a genetic reduction in enzyme activity.

So if you have a reduced ability to metabolize folic acid, you may have less-than-optimal cardiovascular health. Using a 5-MTHF form of folic acid may help.*

Metafolin®, a patented form of 5-MTHF, is:

  • the naturally occurring form of folate that’s preferred by your body
  • more reliably bioavailable and biologically active than folic acid
  • the only folate that can cross the blood-brain barrier

And now you’ll find Metafolin® — instead of folic acid – in Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals.

Warning:
A Multivitamin Indiscriminately Overloaded with Mega-Nutrients May
Do You More Harm than Good

Now, I’ll be the first to admit that coming up with my own special high-potency formula was a major challenge — and took quite a bit of time. This was necessary because indiscriminately throwing a number of nutrients together could actually cause more harm than good.

 

How could that be?

Well, certain amounts and types of nutrients need to be carefully measured to avoid any potential toxic buildup once they are consumed.

The bottom line… not all nutrients in certain amounts work all that well together. In fact, a sort of competition can occur between some nutrients.

So, much attention was directed to prevent this from occurring in Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals.

Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals has been carefully evaluated and selected, each ingredient has been chosen for its:*

  • Proper nutrient balance — just like too little of a nutrient does not provide you any real benefits, too much can potentially do you more harm than good
  • Absorbability — the key to promoting your health is absorbing as much of the nutrient as possible
  • Competitive relationship with other nutrients — a complex evaluation is performed by the scientists to make sure the amounts and types of nutrients work well together to benefit you
  • Allergenic potential — careful selection and measurement of the nutrient to investigate potential allergy issues
  • Long-term safety — any potential toxic buildup balanced out

Order the Best High-Potency Multi That I Designed with
Your Needs in Mind

Remember, don’t be fooled by the nutrient amounts, or an unusually low cost (could mean synthetic nutrients used), or RDA (required daily allowance) claims by the manufacturer.

This information may be totally misleading. You could be not only wasting your time and hard-earned money, but not taking proper control of your health as well.

By now, you should be as convinced as I am that Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals is the best high-potency multivitamin available today. Not only is Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals rich in balanced vitamins and essential minerals, the manufacturer that produces it adheres to the strictest quality standards.

This is a winning combination like no other I’ve seen.

If you’re currently using a high-potency multivitamin or considering another, please promise me that you will at least carefully analyze the supplement manufacturer.

Remember, I am always striving to produce the best possible products for you. There’s simply no reason to settle for second best. Life is too short, and you deserve the absolute best possible supplement out there.

Even though this is an exclusive formula ONLY offered through my site, the price of $47.97 a bottle might seem high at first. I really worked exceptionally hard to deliver all the high-potency vitamins and essential minerals you need and keep the price reasonable at the same time.

Plus, compare a single bottle of Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals to all the different supplements you’d have to purchase separately to get all the ingredients you’ll get in this one convenient high-potency product. The cost of all those separate supplements could be more than double your investment in Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals!

But you really should consider Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals part of your healthy food budget, not a separate supplement.

After all, I worked closely with the lab to have this formula specifically designed to complement your healthy diet… not to be separated from it.

Perhaps there are some processed foods you’re buying that you could phase out to help better balance your healthy diet.

With Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals, I sincerely feel that you’re taking an important step in complementing and optimizing your diet, so order yours NOW and start to Take Control of Your Health.

Source: mercola.com