Is there any danger in taking supplements?

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Dear {FIRSTNAME Subscriber},

 

Is there any danger in taking supplements?

 

You bet there is. Many health conscious people, including

raw foodists, regularly take mega doses of vitamin

supplements, without thinking twice about it. Almost

everyone just assumes that taking vitamins, minerals and

other superfoods are healthy for you. They assume there are

absolutely no adverse health conditions because you don't

even need a prescription for them.

 

But this is really something that requires more thought.

Below I'm including a link to an article about recent

studies done on taking mega doses of beta carotene in order

to reduce the risk of lung cancer. It turns out that taking

the beta carotene actually increased the risk of lung cancer

and one of the trials was stopped a year and a half early

because it isn't ethical to continue using these human

subjects as guinea pigs. I've also heard of several other

studies in which supplements were actually dangerous to your

health.

http://tinyurl.com/5w4zj

 

Are you a guinea pig? Are you constantly testing

supplements and superfoods? I must admit that I was a guinea

pig. I've tested all sorts of supplements, vitamins and

tried several therapies. I'd say that virtually all of them

were a complete waste of money.

 

Nothing has improved my health as much as two completely

natural things. Eating raw foods and fasting. No supplement,

superfood or therapy ever came close to producing the

wonderful results that an optimal raw food diet or water

fasting brought me.

 

There were however several times when these supplements,

superfoods and therapies actually made my health worse. I'll

give you one quick example. I used to mix quite a bit of

Spirulina into my smoothies every day. I loved the taste of

it in a smoothie. At the time I didn't know it but I had

developed red blotches on my face (rosacea) because of

taking Spirulina. I also found out that seaweed produced the

exact same effect on me.

 

It took me one year of not eating Spirulina for the rosacea

to completely disappear. Funny thing is that I just saw a

website about rosacea and they say it cannot be cured. I

guess I proved them wrong. I've seen another heavy Spirulina

user with the same red blotches on her face.

 

The reason I stopped taking Spirulina and seaweed is that

Dr. Douglas Graham and Prof. Rozalind Gruben said in a talk

that they both contained vitamin B12 analogues. This means

that they can actually block your body's ability absorb B12.

I don't know if that was the contributing factor to the

rosacea, but I know I need to stay away from these so called

superfoods if I want super-health. I must admit, I still eat

small amounts of seaweed, but it's not something I overdo.

 

I recently spoke to a man who got horrible results from a

liver flush. This man was very sick already. The liver flush

put him into a severe life or death crisis. He did a liver

flush a little over two weeks ago. He hasn't been able to

sleep since that liver flush. He's in agonizing pain. The

flush somehow affected his body so that now he can barely

breathe. He describes it as having an elephant sitting on

the right side of his chest. He can only take very shallow

breathes and every breath is painful.

 

Can you imagine not being able to sleep for 15 days? This

man is in incredible pain. I am praying for him and I

directed him to contact a doctor of Natural Hygiene as well

as a spiritual healer I know.

 

The problem with these therapies and supplements is that we

don't know what will happen. They are enervating and they

are not natural. In fact, they more often than not interfere

and delay the body's healing process.

 

Loren Lockman an expert on Natural Hygiene has stated a

powerful reason not to take mega doses of supplements. Our

body can only handle so much of any nutrient at a time. If

we take in too much it has to be removed. It enervates your

body by creating an extra detoxification load. The

supplement actually becomes toxic and if it can't be

eliminated it must be stored away in our fat cells or

between our joints.

 

There are many more reasons not to take supplements. The

only time I'd recommend them is if you know you are

deficient in a certain nutrient (are experiencing deficiency

symptoms) and you need to supplement to get you back to

healthy levels. I am not completely against supplements but

they have to be taken with caution and only when necessary

to your individual situation.

 

I can tell you what has been found in studies. Raw fruits

and vegetables are the healthiest things you can eat. The

decision to do studies on supplements is usually because

some healthy group of people who don't take supplements have

a high level of a certain nutrient in their blood. So the

researchers think that by taking a supplement (instead of

eating the whole food) with that nutrient, that they should

be able to have similar health protections.

 

The healthiest groups of people in thousands of studies are

the ones eating the highest percentage of fruits and

vegetables. Here's a line from our Raw Health and Happiness

Society: Success Principles. " Fruits and vegetables, not

supplements, are the super-foods for humans. "

 

You need the whole food, with it's thousands of nutrients,

of which most are unknown by science, to experience radiant

health. This has been the formula for success for the human

race for millions of years. Supplements are a recent

experiment. You can't get health in a pill.

 

Our bodies are incredibly complex and intelligent machines.

Imagine if you just bought a $200,000 Lamborghini sports

car. Would you just open up the hood one day and start

unscrewing stuff, removing wires, etc? I don't think so, who

would want to take a chance of ruining it?

 

Your body is infinitely more complex than a Lamborghini and

infinitely more valuable to you. There is no human on the

planet that knows enough about the human body to be its

mechanic. No doctor or no 10,000 doctors combined

intelligence can do what your body does on a daily basis.

You have 15 trillion cells and each is doing approximately

1,000 functions in any one moment. The intelligence required

to run our bodies is staggering.

 

Taking supplements and doing therapies is like trying to do

the job of a Lamborghini mechanic and you don't even know

what a wrench is. Plus this Lamborghini is the size of a

planet and has a 15 trillion more moving parts than a

regular Lamborghini. The only safe thing to do is to provide

the conditions of health. Eat raw fruits, vegetables, nuts

and seeds. Get enough rest, sunshine and exercise. Drink

pure water and breathe the best air possible. Lastly make

sure you have a great mental diet so that you maintain

emotional balance. Those are some of the major health

factors, there are however other ones.

 

If you want to discover the rest of them, you may want to

consider coming down to our Raw Passion Seminar in

Philadelphia this Saturday (tomorrow). This is a rare event.

We'll have some of the top leaders in Natural Hygiene

speaking at this day long seminar. It's rare because it's

the first time I'm aware of a Raw Passion event happening

anywhere in the Northeast USA. So if you at all can, I urge

you to come down this Saturday. There's going to be a big

group of people there that you can meet. At the end of the

evening will be a social. You're also going to be fed

delicious tropical fruits and raw foos throughout the day.

This is a raw food immersion event not to be missed.

 

To see the schedule of fun and educational events, please

visit this webpage.

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Remember to hurry as time is running out. I hope to see you

there. The speakers are Dr. Douglas Graham, Dr. Timothy

Trader, and David Klein with special guests Karen Ranzi and

Roger Haeske (me).

 

To Your Radiant Health, Roger Haeske

 

If you can't make it to Raw Passion but still want all the

expert Raw Food Diet coaching and support you can get, then

you need to visit www.HowToGoRaw.com. You'll learn how to be

super healthy, fit and happy by eating our true superfoods,

fruits and vegetables. There's much more to my site than

just raw foods, so take a look, I think you're going to like

what you see.

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the encouragement to stick with the raw foods, Roger; I've never used

a LOT of supplements, but I've tried some now and then. One that comes to mind

is a form of vitamin c (I think they were called C-Salts, something like that)

that was probably the most extreme as far as megadoses are concerned. I'm still

learning a lot about the raw foods diet, but so far it has definitely been the

most healing approach I've encountered so far, and it's gentle on the body.

 

RE: the Raw Passions event this Saturday--I am very excited to be able to go

there. You are right, raw food events do not abound in this area, and I'm

looking forward to hopefully finding folks in my area who follow this way of

life, as well as meeting you and Dr. Doug Graham.

 

Anyone else in this group that will be attending?

 

Peace, Valerie

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi Valerie,

 

I look forward to meeting you at Raw Passion. It should be an

uplifting and educational day of raw food immersion.

 

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

 

P.S. Are you having trouble staying 100% raw? Are you afraid of eating

fruit? Are you sick of the time consuming effort of having to juice,

sprout, dehydrate and ferment your foods? Discover the simple secrets

to raw food success from Radiant Health and Peak Performance Coach,

Roger Haeske. http://www.HowToGoRaw.com for more info.