Dear Friends,

We feel truly blessed to have you as our customers, and we thank you! We know very well the difficulty of the job at hand in getting people well today. I have the highest regard for you efforts to heal us, and for the great diversity of healing traditions that you represent.

There is great diversity of healing traditions represented in those who’ve become the Therapeutic Foods users, and readers of our Forward Thinking newsletters. There is much that we can learn from each other, and for this reason we are going to publish your comments, essays, editorials, protocols and announcements of seminars you may be teaching. Many of our clients put on seminars, teaching variety of medical methods.

In this email I am initiating this process. We can nurture each other.

Dr. Louisa Williams DC, ND is a great healer. She takes the most sensitive, environmentally challenged patients you can imagine and works with them successfully. I am pleased to announce Louisa’s up and coming seminar Sept 24th 2010 seminar. If you want to get a feel for what people think of her as a healer read the testimonials on her website—they are good! Here is The link.

Louisa’s book: Radical Medicine, published in 2007, is the first book that Dr. Williams has written, but not the first publication. In her career she has authored over twenty teaching manuals, as well as several research articles published in both English and German. She has also authored an Ebook, The Negative Side of Positive Thinking—www.radicalmedicine.com.

Louisa Williams- up and coming seminar: 2010 MRT Workshop in Beautiful Marin County! Matrix Reflex Testing (MRT) by Dr. Louisa Williams. Basic Course: September 24-26

Topics to be Covered in the Basic Course:

• How to perform basic Matrix Reflex Testing: the reflex arm length test, the leg length and straight arm length measurements, the EMF assessment, and the hand chakra therapy localization.
• How to recognize and treat acute nutritional deficiency (or excess) and the need for a long-term (yang) or short-term (yin) heel lift.
• How to assess and clear abnormal patterns such as “oscillation” (~ switching) and uneven arm length presentations (~ blocked regulation or 6-channel adaptation patterns), which undermine accurate analysis (and can’t be detected by kinesiology or electroacupuncture methods).

How to diagnose:

• Dental, tonsil and other focal infections
• Scar interference fields
• Mercury amalgam toxicity and dental galvanism
• Petrochemical toxicity
• Major food allergies
• Dental malocclusions, TMD, and more…
• Treatments include neural therapy without needles, isopathy, drainage (Plant Stem Cells), cell salts, nutritional supplementation, spinal and cranial manipulation, and more…
• New Additions: The diagnosis and treatment of the sphenopalatine and inferior hypogastric (Frankenhäuser’s) ganglia will be taught.

MRT Logistics:

WHEN:

• Friday Evening, Sept. 24, Registration 6:30 – 7 PM, Course – 7 to 10 PM
• Saturday, Sept. 25 – 9 AM to 5:30 PM
• Sunday, Sept. 26 – 9 AM to 2 PM (+ optional workshop period: 2 to 4 PM)

WHERE:

• Best Western Corte Madera Inn, 56 Madera

Link to the Coming Event.

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

Treatment for Diarrhea and Constipation

Just last week I had lunch with one of our doctors and they relayed to story.

One of their patients had moved to Uganda and adopted a three year old orphan boy who was found living on the streets of war-torn northern Uganda. The little boy had terrible dysbiosis as you can imagine—with diarrheal diseases being one of the leading cause of death in children in Africa and developing countries around the world. It comes down to poor sanitation. The lady had taken her arsenal of supplemental products including many of our Therapeutic Foods with her and gave to the little boy our Original Synbiotic Formula.

She told our doctor that the other day she found her little boy taking spoonfuls of the Original Formula directly into his mouth. She said that he had opened up the refrigerator, digging through all the other foods to get to the Original all the way in the back. He loved this product. The wisdom of babes!

The result is that he is beginning to thrive. He looks healthy. His skin and bowels look good and are functioning normally now, and the mother is convinced it is due in large part to the Original. We are very happy!

The Last Quiz Answer: Another amazing photo from the National Geographic 2009 Best Photo Collection.

Adding Chlorella to the diet enhances the good bacterial growth also!!!

Dear Friends,

Consuming real food, whole food, organic food, in seasonal variety, and properly grown, prepared and eaten on a regular basis—provides everything the body needs to thrive and to defend, repair and regenerate. Food is everything to the body!

So what is food? It is organic molecules—proteins, carbohydrates and fats plus co-factors—vitamins, minerals, etc. (I am using the word organic here in the context of organic verses inorganic molecules). The Sun’s energy is captured and transformed into the organic/macromolecules and via our consumption of plants and animals; we release the energy and utilize it to our advantage.

The first plants to evolve were the single celled algae, some 2.5 billion years ago. The alga, being filled with chlorophyll—the organic, sun-energy-absorbing molecule, is capable of channeling the energy of sunlight into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. In this process, energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transforms carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrate and oxygen. Green plants evolve into greater and greater varieties and numbers, animals (herbivores) emerge, consuming and converting the plant’s carbohydrate into energy, then the carnivores emerge eating their fellow animals for energy, and when all life dies, the bacteria, worms and insects consume and break down the organic molecules back to the inorganic state to be absorbed and remade back into organic molecules by the plants— and around the food chain we go.

Here is the chemical structure of chlorophyll a in plants. It is exactly like the hemoglobin molecule in mammals except that there is iron as the central element in hemoglobin instead of magnesium.

One of the big reasons we are excited to incorporate Chlorella as our newest of Therapeutic Foods, is because it’s the richest source of chlorophyll, within the plant kingdom. The benefits of chlorophyll are impressive. Here are a few:

• Chlorophyll helps to rebuild and replenish our red blood cells, boosting our energy and increasing our wellbeing almost instantly.
• Chlorophyll has the power to regenerate our bodies at the molecular and cellular level and is known to help cleanse the body, fight infection, help heal wounds and promote the health of the circulatory, digestive, immune and detoxification systems.
• Because of the quality of chlorophyll within the Chlorella it is able to capture enough of the Sun energy to be the fastest growing plant within the plant kingdom. This means that properly farmed Chlorella can be a life saving super food source for humans, and is the major reason for the excitement and research conducted regarding Chlorella over the last hundred years.

Another reason to consume Chlorella is that it is almost 60% protein and we desperately need quality protein coming into our bodies daily. Proteins not only provide the structural support for all the body cells and tissues, but also are the molecules that make up our metabolic pathways (metabolic pathways are composed of chains of proteins). We need all the essential amino acids in our diet for millions of pathways to function properly—chlorella provides.

In short, Chlorella is packed with protein, natural chlorophyll, carotenoids, 16 types of vitamins, 14 types of minerals, 2 essential fatty acids (ALA and GLA), 4 dietary fibers (averaging 13%) and much more. It is a true super food.

Every one of our Therapeutic Food products forms an important adjunct to any therapy, as you bring into the body whole foods that the body recognizes, and easily uses. Food is wonderful!

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

For a long time you have been asking of me for protocols that would give you the dosages and combinations of Therapeutic Foods for different conditions. We have had our product in your hands now for over five years and I’ve heard from many of you what has worked for you. Adding this to the fact that we have great research on all of our food products, it is time to give you specific protocols. I will be contacting you with this information.

Probiotic tip: Make sure you get plenty of natural fibers from fibrous foods because these fibers help create an environment within the gut that is conducive to the growth of the good probiotic bacteria. If you have a gut that is favorable to good bug growth you can put as little a 2 to 5 billion probiotics regularly and they will grow exponentially into hundreds of billions and trillions—quickly! It is not about dosing with mega billions, but about creating the conditions that allow the good bugs to grow (or not). Eat 25-30 grams of fiber a day and take moderate amounts of probiotics regularily!

The Last Quiz Answer: Another amazing photo from the National Geographic 2009 Best Photo Collection.

Here is what the big corporations create in our world: misery to humans and the creatures of the earth. This gull is covered with BP oil.

Dear Friends,

Our friend Mr. Squirrel is feeling good, feeling strong, feeling spunky—if I may indulge in a little anthropomorphizing. I think we can all agree that a large part of feeling good is eating well—bringing food into our body that enables it to thrive.

This is very much what Bioimmersion is all about. On one level we have created the Therapeutic Foods Line, which provides a growing collection of foods that are concentrated enough to behave as healing medicines for our body. On another level, we are increasingly more active as change agents in the world that has lost its way in regards to growing of foods that are healthy.

Each addition to our Therapeutic Foods Line is carefully scrutinized. For a long time we have looked at Chlorella. For the past thirty years we have personally tried a variety of chlorella products—from the Japanese, to the Chinese, to American grown algae. We are now able to put our weight down on this our newest product—Organic Chlorella.

Historically, Chlorella came on the scene (came into view literally) during the time of Louie Pasteur, the invention of the microscope, and the discovery of the microbial world.

Chlorella is a unicellular, green algae—the first of the green plants. It is not visible to the human eye. A single Chlorella cell measures only 6/1000 (six one-thousandths) of a millimeter in diameter. However there is power in numbers and chlorella can produce numbers.

A single Chlorella cell can divide and subdivide into 4 separate cells every 15 to 20 hours! If a Chlorella cell were given free reign to reproduce itself at this rate in 63 days, enough Chlorella would be generated to equal the earth’s volume! Thank God earth has its checks and balances. In the world of microbiology as a particular microorganism reproduces it will eventually reach what is called a “climax community”—a point at which it has reached a certain density that becomes the rate limiting factor in its growth.

But Chlorella is a very impressive microorganism. It was not until the 1890s that chlorella cells were identified through the use of a microscope. It was first grown in Holland in pure form in the late 1800s. By the early 1900, realizing that chlorella consists of 60% protein, and multiplies very fast, scientists in many countries, but especially Germany, began to research the idea of making food from chlorella.

This research was interrupted by two world wars, but regained momentum after WWII. In 1948 a pilot study at Stanford Research Institute proved to be successful in growing chlorella. In 1950 this study was taken over by the Carnegie Institute, which concluded that Chlorella could be grown on a commercial scale and could possibly solve the world’s hunger problem.

Post war Japan had a serious problem with food shortage, and in 1957 the Rockefeller Foundation and the Japanese government cosponsored Dr. Hiroshi Tamiya’s study at the Tokugawa Biological Institute. Dr. Tamiya was a pioneer who developed the technology to grow, harvest, and process chlorella on a large, commercially feasible scale.

However, there was a problem with its digestibility and it wasn’t until 1975 when the first of patented technologies were developed to break the chlorella’s cell wall—releasing its powerful densely packed nutrients for the benefit of human health.

Today Chlorella is grown around the Pacific Rim in many countries—in Japan, China, Indonesia, Hawaii, and other warm tropical locations. The key ingredients for successful chlorella farming are plenty of bright tropical sun, clean pure water and the right fertilizer. Like any other food crop there are choices as to the technologies one uses to produce the finished consumer product. And, depending on the methods used, the resulting chlorella crop varies in its nutrient content, purity and digestibility.

This is the reason we took our time to learn about the best way to grow and harvest Chlorella—and organic, sustainable, and fair trade to boot. The vetting process we went through led us to the conclusion that this particular chlorella was the perfect addition to our Therapeutic Foods Line. Perhaps the biggest determining factors were the agencies that have put their stamp of highest approval on this particular chlorella from the growing of the crop, to the manufacturing of the tablets, to the packaging of the finished product.

Ours is the only Chlorella in the market place that is covered under the CERES Certification of Environmental Standards, the NOP Certificate of Organic Operation under the US National Organic Standard, and the Fair For Life Certification by IMO, a Swiss organization. This is a very big deal and I encourage you to click on this link, Forward Thinking July 1st, where I discuss their importance in some detail.

Our new Chlorella will be available next week. By next week you will be able to log in and see the costs. It comes in 500 mg tablet, 120 to a bottle. Of course, there are no excipients, binders or filler—nothing but pure organic high potency chlorella.

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

When it comes to dosing with chlorella there is a great deal of variation in the amounts people take. I have noticed for myself that taking 4 tablets a day of our chlorella gives me stronger results than handfuls of other chlorella products. I think it comes down to farming methods, purity of the product and the technology used to crack the cell walls—low temperature milling.

The Last Quiz Answer: Another amazing photo from the National Geographic 2009 Best Photo Collection.

The certification of quality and purity of water are very important. Here are some of our numbers: Smell-none, Visible solids-none, pH- 7.03, Fe(mg/L)- less than 0.05, Mn (mg/L)-less than 0.05, Hardness as CaCO3 (mg/L)- 20, Fluorine compounds (mg/L)- less than 0.2, Cyanide compounds (mg/L)- less than 0.002, Volatile phenols (mg/L)- less that 0.002, Pb (mg/L)- less than 0.01, etc.

Dear Friends,

I am very excited in this week’s Forward Thinking to unwrap our newest Therapeutic Foods offering—Organic Chlorella. I know you will learn something new in this special edition. Do read the Clinical Notes below to discover the primal power of Chlorella as a food. It is truly the essense of life in our universe—an encapsulation of the energy and substance that sustains life.

Chlorella is one of the oldest forms of plant life—a one-celled algae that emerged from the earth’s biosphere some 2000 million years ago. It is the world’s richest source of chlorophyll, making it one of the most efficient organisms on earth in terms of using and concentrating sunlight for photosynthesis.Through its rapid reproduction, Chlorella generates massive amounts of oxygen for the atmosphere and biomass (the food we can eat). It is the reason Japan grew Chlorella after WWII—to feed the population! And, what a powerful food it is—but more about Chlorella’s wonderful attributes later.

To ease into our discussion of the benefits and power of chlorella as a therapeutic food, I would like to reflect with you on the following questions:

What is life comprised of? And how does Chlorella, one of the oldest of life’s eukaryotic creatures, embrace the universe in its one cell existence?

Focusing on bacteria as the simplest living systems, we characterize a living cell as a membrane–bounded, self-generating, organizationally closed metabolic network. This network involves several types of highly complex macromolecues: structural proteins; enzymes, which act as catalysts of metabolic processes; RNA, the messengers carrying genetic information; and DNA, which stores the genetic information and is responsible for the cell’s self-replication.

The cellular network is materially and energetically open, using a constant flow of matter and energy to produce, repair and perpetuate itself; and that it operates far from equilibrium [which means it is not dead—a system theory concept], where new structures and new forms of order may spontaneously emerge, thus leading to development and evolution. (Capra, The Hidden Connections 2002, p.31)

Capra beautifully crafted a concise summary defining life. Approximately 3500 million years ago the universal ancestor, a primordial bacteria, emerged—coupling with the environment, multiplying and evolving over time into millions of new species. Evolution is cycles of life processing matter, creating new, and increasingly complex forms of life.

The prokaryotic world (bacterial world) was the only world for the first 2000 million years of life on mother earth, then we see the emergence of the eukaryotics—the microscopic world of plants and animals; and, the for-runners to the multi-cellular biosphere we see in the world today.

A little aside: Prokaryotes are the most successful and abundant organisms on Earth. As a group, they have the largest biomass on earth. For example, in the oceans prokaryotes make up 90% of the total weight of all living things! Isn’t that amazing? It is kind of like the realization that on and in our body resides 100 trillion bacteria (the microbiome), while our total human body cell mass is 10 trillion.

The earliest photosynthetic organisms on land would have resembled modern algae, cyanobacteria and lichens. Chlorella is a fresh-water, one-celled, green algae that emerged around 2,000 million years ago—surviving in part because of its tough outer shell that protects its genetic integrity.

One Animals Waste is Another Animals Food.

As life expanded around the globe, ecosystems developed—ecosystems being defined as networks of organisms working, growing, and evolving together. One way to understand ecosystems is to think of them in terms of food webs or food chains. Remember, from above, a constant flow of matter and energy in needed by every living cell—by every life form.

The Food Chain

• The Sun is the original source of energy, in the form of solar radiation, for the food chain (100,000 Units of Energy).
• Plants capture approximately 1% of the available light energy from the Sun for biomass production by way of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis can be described chemically as: Light Energy + 6 CO2 + 6 H2O = C6H12O6 + 6 O2 (1,000 Units of Energy).
• Herbivores consume approximately 10% of the plant biomass produced in a typical food chain (100 Unit of Energy).
• Carnivores capture and consume about 10% of the energy stored by the herbivores (10 Units of Energy). We definitely have been looking at carnivores in our “amazing creatures” photos of late.
• Finally, when organisms shed their tissues or die they provide food for, and are decomposed by the microbial world—converting organic matter back into inorganic nutrients that can be taken up by plants in the food chain to produce new organic matter.

Chlorella: embracing the universe in its one cell network

Chlorella is a most powerful natural food at the top of the food chain. Not only is it the highest-known source of chlorophyll, with nearly 10 times the amount of chlorophyll found in alfalfa, from which most commercial chlorophyll is extracted, but as a protein source, it has the highest percent of protein— Protein in 100 grams: Chlorella- 58 grams, Beef- 24 grams, Chicken- 24 grams, Fish- 18.29 grams, Wheat- 13 grams, Eggs- 13 grams, Rice- 3 grams and Potatoes- 3 grams.

Chlorella contains in macronutrients over 50% protein and 12% lipids in the form of ALA and GLA, 23% Carbohydrate, 0.3% Fiber and 411 calories per 100grams. It is packed with minerals and vitamins (beta carotene and other antioxidants and vitamins that include B6 and methyl-cobalamin—the most absorbable form of B12). Chlorella is truly an amazing Therapeutic Food.

We’ve looked at its features, now in the clinical notes we will enumerate some of its benefits for human consumption.

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

The list is long when it comes to looking at the benefits to human health in consuming chlorella. No wonder it is the largest selling supplement in Japan. Here they are in a condensed form.

Chlorella aids in detoxification—helps remove dioxin, mercury, lead and other toxins from the body, helps purify the blood and clean away toxins, aids in processing more oxygen, cleanses key elimination systems like the bowel, liver and blood, supports the elimination of molds from the body;strengthens the immune system with its antioxidant content; strengthens the nervous system; delivers enzymes such as pepsin and chlorophyllase, which promote healthy digestion; regulates the intestines by boosting growth of beneficial flora; alkalizes the body; improve metabolism; improves liver function ; lowers blood pressure; lowers bolood sugar and freshens your breath with chlorophyll. Phew!

Our broken cell wall organic chlorella contains Chlorella vulgaris and Chlorella regularis. The whole plant is in the form of a pressed 500 mg tablet with no excipients of any kind—just pure chlorella. Our product is covered under the CERES Certification of Environmental Standards, the NOP Certificate of Organic Operation under the US National Organic Standard and the Fair For Life Certification by IMO. Our methods of milling employ low heat and because the cell walls are broken the nutrients are readily absorbed. There are 120 tablets per bottle. We recommend 4 tablets daily.

The Last Quiz Answer: Another amazing photo from the National Geographic 2009 Best Photo Collection.

Certification of quality, purity and excellence in manufacturing is critical in the world market place today. In case you missed last weeks Forward Thinking I am linking it here for you. It details the agencies we use to validate our product for you. Click on this link—July 1st, 2010 Forward Thinking

Dear Friends,

We got our second box of produce today from our CSA, Helsing Farms. We get one box of fresh picked produce every Tuesday from now until the season ends in October. It is still pretty slim pickings. This week we got one of each: arugula, rainbow chard, green butter head lettuce, chive, cilantro, and fresh garlic.

As Helsing said in their newsletter last week, most plants grow more in 1 sunny day than they do during a week of rain, so in the variableness of the Pacific Northwest Spring weather, there is no way of telling how abundant the first few boxes of product will be.

To give you an idea of how bad our spring has been: by this time last year we had 38 days of temperatures over 70 degrees, this year we have had only 3! Helsing Farm notes, The weather has conspired to both slow how quickly the plants are taking up nutrients and growing, allowing mold, flea beetles and symphylan to prosper and prevented us from hitting some of our planting dates [symphylans are soil-dwelling centipede-like creatures that feed on plant roots and can cause extensive crop damage]. Your scanty CSA box reflects the results of this evil trifecta. But that is farming for you, and the joys and sorrows of eating the real food of the land. Is it not better though than eating food that is manipulated genetically, sprayed with chemicals, and harvested while it is green so it can be transported half way across the world? Since it is the beginning of summer, we still have high hopes for better weather to come, and are committed to the farming community around us, no matter how large or small the bounty of crops are each year.

Have you found your local CSA or Farmer’s Market? To encourage our local, organic, smaller farmers, sign up and support the movement to create and bring about real food that nourishes us and greens our environment. It is a partnership that is worth all of our efforts!

Here’s our little condo garden that I am going to harvest some of to create a salad for our dinner guests this evening:

The birth of our newest product—Organic Chlorella

The above is very much what we are up against in the creation of our Therapeutic Foods Line. The experience of sourcing the raw materials is of course dependent on a good or a bad year of weather and crops. We love our relationships with farmers—together we observe seasons, weather patterns and growing conditions (soil, water, nutrients) in different parts of the world. In addition, we must assure that each entity in the product manufacturing chain fulfills their mandate of excellence. Relationships are the key to this working.

Relationships with farmers, manufacturing experts and scientist from all over the world is how we have developed our therapeutic foods line and how we discovered our newest therapeutic food—Organic Chlorella! I am excited to share this exceptional primal product that has brought healing and health to our fellow neighbors in the Pacific Rim.

As you know, we are not fast to come out with a new product as it takes much time for us to do the due diligence to find the right farmers etc. to collaborate with—our new organic chlorella serves as a perfect example. Chlorella is a strong therapeutic food, and although in this writing I won’t make the case for the medical benefits of chlorella, (but will do so in our Chlorella monograph and in next week’s Forward Thinking), I will focus on what makes our organic Chlorella exceptionally special: the way it is farmed. The focus is given to environmental quality, social equity, and sustainable economy—the three tenants of Bioimmersion’s mission and raison d’être.

Independent Certification is critical in our verification of the purity and potency of a therapeutic food. Our chlorella’s quality, purity, organic status, and ingredients amounts are of course very important, but one other certification is a must for us— the fair trade and equitable treatment of the farm workers. The latter is a relatively new international designation and is critically essential towards assuring the fair treatment of peasant workers all over the world. Remember La Via Campensina? Do check it out again as it is the heart and soul of the international farming community.

To these ends our new Organic Chlorella is covered under the CERES Certification of Environmental Standards, the NOP Certificate of Organic Operation under the US National Organic Standard and the Fair For Life Certification by IMO. Let’s look briefly at each of these agencies:

The Institute for Marketecology (IMO) is an international certification and inspection agency founded in Switzerland in 1990. From the very beginning IMO has worked internationally. Their philosophy has always been to collaborate with local people all around the world. Forming co-ventures has allowed IMO to open new offices with local individuals or organizations, giving support to the emergence of local certification bodies and accreditation—a healthy way to bring together the international nature of farming of today’s world with the local work, supervision, and independence. The developing idea of creating an organized structure for collaboration and exchange among all IMO offices, inspectors and representatives spread all over the world in a relatively short time frame. We owe our thanks to IMO for certifying our Chlorella and cementing the collaboration of farming and certification between USA, Asia, and Switzerland.

The Institute for Marketecology (IMO) is one of the first and most renowned international agencies for inspection, certification and quality assurance of eco-friendly products. IMO credentials:

• It can draw on experience in the field of organic agriculture for more than 20 years and is also renowned in the sectors of natural textiles, sustainable forestry and social accountability.
• IMO is accredited by the Swiss Accreditation Service (SAS) according to the EU Regulation EN 45004 and EN45011/ISO 65 for its international activities as inspection and certification agency.
• IMO is accredited as an inspection and certification agency according to the EU Regulation (EC) No. 834/2007 and (EC) No. 889/2008 in Germany as well as in Italy and Spain.
• IMO is accredited as an internationally active inspection and certification agency according to the National Organic Program (NOP) of the United States (USDA).
• IMO is accredited as an internationally active inspection and certification agency according to the Japanese Agricultural standard (JAS) of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture (MAFF).
• IMO is recognized as international organic certifier by the Quebec Accreditation Council.
• IMO is accredited as an inspection and certification agency for organic operators and products in Turkey according to the Turkish Government Regulation for organic agriculture.
• IMO is accredited as an inspection and certification agency for organic operators and products in India according to the Indian Regulation for organic agriculture.
• IMO is an official certifier of organic products in Switzerland.

Dr. Rainer Bachi was the founder and director of IMO. His background speaks volumes to what his legacy in IMO means to our world. Born in Zurich in 1948, Dr. Bachi grew up in an anthroposophical home where he soon came into contact with the arts, with nature, and matters concerning health. In 1974 he graduated in agricultural sciences at the ETH Zurich (The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). His passion was biodynamic agriculture and he completed his doctorate in this technology. He was a leader in Rudolf Steiner’s ashing method and biodynamic farming. Biodynamic agriculture and the work of Rudolf Steiner are legendary when it comes to manifesting the principles of organic farming and living—as held by organic farming purists.

As you can see from the above accreditation the countries for whom IMO is the official organic certifier represent the gold standard for organic principles—Switzerland, Germany, Japan, India, Turkey, Quebec and the USA (to list a few).

Almost four years ago, in September 2006, a new Social and Fair Trade Program was launched by the Swiss Bio-Foundation, in cooperation with the IMO: Fair For Life. The purpose was to improve the lives and livelihoods of marginalized producers on all continents, in all societies, and in all industries where such marginalization occurs. They not only focus on the wellbeing of human beings, but also give meaningful consideration for the lives of animals and plants, and the ecological health of their habitats. Life is upheld and cherished in all of its dimensions and interactions.

In regards to our new Therapeutic Foods Organic Chlorella, it is the first chlorella product to be certified under the Social and Fair Trade Program. It is Certified Organic by IMO. It is also certified organic and as an environmentally friendly, sustainable farming operation by CERES—a German based international organization that offers certification according to organic standards and standards of environmentally friendly Good Agricultural Practices.

It is for these reasons and for the product itself—whose features, benefits, and long history we will cover in next week’s newsletter, that we have brought Organic Chlorella into our fold.

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

Here is a great combination for a healthy day: One capsule of High ORAC Synbiotic Formula + one teaspoon of Number 7 Systemic Booster daily. What do you get? A fruit bowl of wild blueberry extract, wild bilberry extract, grape and grapeseed extract, raspberry and raspberry seed extract, whole tart cherry, cranberry whole and extract, whole prune, pomegranate whole and extract and whole pineapple. A collection of good bugs (probiotics) from America and Bulgaria—L. acidophilus, B. longum, L. casei, L. helveticus, S. thermaphilus + metabolites from L. bulgaricus and B. infantis……not to mention our fructo borate for bone health, blood sugar lowering components and more. Check it out and try it for a month.

The Last Quiz Answer: Another amazing photo from the National Geographic 2009 Best Photo Collection.

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