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NATURAL ENERGIZERS

 

Energy is the basis of any activity: All life depends on it. There is a constant

flow of energetic impulses through our bodies which govern everything from the

most basic cellular functions to the most complex thoughts and motions.

 

Often times this life energy becomes depressed or even blocked through stress,

tension, emotional or physical injuries. Our digestion becomes sluggish, our

immune system weakens, we feel tired, and have no energy to live our lives to

their full potential.

 

We devoted this research report to bring you the information you need to

transform your dis-ease and energize your body to restore and maintain a vibrant

state of health.

 

 

THE ABCs OF ENERGY

Herbal Medicine Research Report: Volume 2 No. 3

by Udo Erasmus, Ph.D.

 

Energy. We take it for granted. Until we lose it. Then we want it back.

 

Energy. We need it for every aspect of living. It's the power that turns the

biochemical wheels in all our cells. It gives us our staying power. It promotes

a positive outlook, making us feel like we're able to cope and thrive.

 

Energy. It comes from sunlight. It is stored in chemical bonds. It's the glue

that holds atoms together to form molecules.

 

Energy. It is health. And health is energy.

 

Energy. We cannot live without it.

 

Where does energy come from? How do we maintain or enhance it? The keys to

energy include: A. the right kinds of nutrients; B. good digestion; and C.

detoxification.

 

A. The right kind of nutrients

1. Foremost among energizing nutrients are essential fats, two substances —

omega 3's (w3s) and omega 6's (w6s) — that come from the right kinds of fats.

The body cannot make them, but every cell requires them to be able to function.

 

W3s do a better job in creating energy than do w6s, but both are essential.

Hence the ratio of w3 to w6 is of critical importance. In our work, we use a

blend twice richer in w3s than w6s. Called Udo's Choice Perfected Oil Blend, it

is available in brown glass bottles, in a box, in the fridge, in health food

stores.

 

Why do w3s energize us? There are several reasons.

 

a) Essential fats are required for hemoglobin production. Lack of essential

fats, such as might be found in low fat, no fat, and wrong fat diets, can lead

to low energy from essential fat deficiency-induced anemia.

 

b) Essential fats make red blood cell membranes more flexible, which means that

red blood cells pass more easily through our capillaries, which in turn ensures

better delivery to our tissues, of oxygen and nutrients, whose interaction

produces most of the energy we need to live on.

 

c) Essential fats attract oxygen. When optimally present in our tissues, w3s

enhance the body's ability to absorb and metabolize oxygen. They thereby

increase oxidation rate, increase metabolic rate (we burn more calories),

increase energy level, increase stamina (it takes longer to get tired due to

oxygen depletion when we exert ourselves), improve performance, and speed

recovery from fatigue.

 

d) Based on their ability to increase oxidation, w3s enhance the ability of our

glands and organs to produce hormones, enzymes, and other secretions that are

required for optimum energy and enhanced health.

 

For instance, essential fats improve:

 

• thyroid gland function, which regulates metabolic rate, and makes sure that we

have enough energy (iodine, tyrosine, zinc, and vitamin C are also necessary for

making thyroid hormone);

 

• liver function, which ensures that toxic substances that can interfere with

energy production are neutralized most effectively;

 

• the ability of the pancreas and the digestive cells that line our gut to make

the enzymes necessary for optimum digestion of foods, so that the nutrients

needed for energy production can be digested, absorbed, and made useful to the

body; and

 

• insulin function, and are required for testosterone production, both of which

play important roles in muscular development and stamina.

 

2. Green foods are the second most important source of energy, because they are

rich in the minerals and vitamins required in energy-producing biochemical

reactions in the body.

 

The most important mineral for energy production is magnesium.

 

But the anti-oxidants that greens contain also help energy levels because they

prevent random damage done to tissues by molecular fragments called " free

radicals, " the repair of which can use up a great deal of energy.

 

In addition to these, phytonutrients found in green plants and herbs affect

energy metabolism. Hundreds of phytonutrients found in plants have

energy-enhancing benefits. Two of the best known are ginseng and ginkgo, but

there are many others.

 

We work with a green foods blend called Udo's Choice Beyond Greens, which

contains greens from 8 different sources, the energy-enhancing herbs ginkgo and

ginseng, energy-enhancing essential fats, damage-preventing antioxidants, herbs

that improve inner organ function, and a great deal of detoxifying fiber.

 

Also included in Beyond Greens is dulse and kelp, two marine sources of heavy

metal-removing fiber (algin) and trace amounts of iodine, required for thyroid

function which increases energy levels by increasing metabolic rate. Since many

" experts " now recommend against the use of (iodized) salt, which was most

people's only reliable source of iodine, some other source of iodine is

necessary.

 

3. The fiber found in Beyond Greens and another product called the Wholesome

Fast Food Blend cleanses and soothes the intestinal tract, regulates bowel

function, and escorts from the bowel many toxins that interfere with energy

production and can use up much of the body's energy resources.

 

B. Good Digestion

Good digestion depends on enzymes. These come from raw foods, from enzymes made

by our body, or from digestive enzymes added to foods to replace those destroyed

by cooking or processing.

 

Since the use of raw foods has gone out to fashion (putting a load on the

digestive system that it was not meant to and therefore doesn't handle well),

digestive enzymes can provide both benefits and convenience, because you simply

add them to or take them with your foods. Digestive enzymes work in three ways

to increase energy levels:

 

1. Digestive enzymes prevent malnutrition. They ensure a more complete digestion

of foods, so that the nutrients required to build optimally functioning cells,

tissues, glands, and organs can be absorbed and assimilated.

 

2. Digestive enzymes prevent gas, bloating, inflammation, leaky gut, allergic

reactions, and even some auto-immune reactions, all of which can rob the body of

most of its energy resources. The reason why some people during allergy season

have so little energy is that it is used up dealing with the allergy.

 

3. Digestive enzymes free the immune system from having to become tied up in

digestion, which leaves immune cells free to pursue their first love: the

decimation of virus, fungus, yeast, bacteria, cancer cells, and cell debris.

 

We do our work with a blend of 9 digestive enzymes, called Udo's Choice

Digestive Enzyme Blend. This full-spectrum plant blend is particularly rich in

protease (according to the manufacturer, it contains at least 5 different types

of protease), because poor digestion of proteins causes most of the problems

that result from poor digestion. But the enzyme blend also contains 8 other

kinds of enzymes, which digest the other kinds of food we eat — fats, starches,

fiber, and more.

 

To optimize energy and health, it is important to optimize intake of all of the

essential components of health. These include greens, good protein (for

essential amino acids), good fats (for essential fatty acids), enough (but not

more) carbohydrates for fuel requirements, minerals, vitamins, anti-oxidants,

phytonutrients, digestive enzymes, fiber, and probiotics.

 

C. Detoxification

If we prevent ourselves from being poisoned by industrial pollutants found in

food, water and air — by going organic in our foods, natural in our health care,

– we will go a long way toward optimizing health and energy.

 

In addition, our water should be clean. Invest in a distiller made of steel or

glass. Make sure you get optimum amounts of the good minerals in your diet, as

distillation removes the good minerals as well as all toxic components from your

water supply.

 

A walk in nature for fresh air, proper posture, exercise, adequate fiber,

probiotics, and many essential nutrients including essential fats, minerals, and

vitamins — all these support detoxification processes the body naturally engages

in.

 

 

Summary.

Our genes are the program, refined over millions of years of development, that

determines the natural state called health. To do its job of building healthy

cells, tissues, organs, and glands this program must be given the tools required

to build them. These are food, water, air, and light and the principles of

health that they contain.

 

To work to capacity, our genetic program must also be protected from poisons

which interfere with its functions. Therefore the second requirement is the

avoidance of pollutants, pesticides, synthetic industrial chemicals, heavy

metals, and pharmaceutical (synthetic) drugs wherever possible, and poisons from

the natural environment.

 

Finally, we must see to it that our digestion is working optimally, because poor

digestion leads to poor nutrient absorption as well as increased toxicity.

 

If we take these three simple steps, our body will reward us with the best

health it is possible to achieve given our genetic makeup. And it doesn't get

better than that.

 

 

References:

 

Erasmus, U., Fats That Heal Fats That Kill. Alive Books, Vancouver, B.C. 1993.

 

Brink, W., Priming the Anabolic Environment. MuscleMag. Intl., Mississaugo, ON.

1996.

 

Guyton, A Textbook of Medical Physiology. W B Saunders Co., Philadelphia, PA.

1986.

 

Stryer, L. Biochemistry. W H Freeman & Co., New York, NY. 1988.

 

M E Shils & V R Young, Modern Nutrition in Health & Disease. Lea & Febiger,

Philadelphia, PA. 1988.

 

Howell, E, Enzyme Nutrition. Avery Publishing , Wayne, NJ. 1985.

 

Wrba, H & O Pecher, Enzymes. Ecomed, Germany 1998.

 

About Udo Erasmus, Ph.D.

Udo Erasmus is an internationally recognized authority on the role of fats,

oils, and cholesterol in human health. He received his Bachelor of Science

degree in Honours Zoology with a major in Psychology from the University of

British Columbia, followed by graduate studies in biochemistry and genetics.

Several years of research in the field of nutrition led to him write his first

book, Fats and Oils, which earned him a Ph.D. in nutrition and was later

expanded and republished as Fats That Heal Fats That Kill.

 

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