Dear Friends,

It is with great joy and excitement that we finally bring to you our two newest products:

• Ultra Minerals—Mesozoic Vegetate
• Energy Sustain Complex—A Global Blend of Indigenous Organic Seeds and Grains.

I talked about these two items in several Forward Thinking newsletters over the past eight months; and finally, finally we have them ready to be shipped! Phew! It just takes a while to birth quality new products.

These products are profound and powerful seminal elements in the human food chain of life. The Ultra Minerals come from Deep Time, the age of the dinosaurs, when the soil was rich and full of minerals. The Energy Sustain Complex comes from the dawning of the Neolithic Age, the time when human evolved out of the hunter-gatherer and started horticulture (gardening). As you can see, our genes have deep historical roots and therefore very specific needs.

Let me share with you the origin, beauty, and power of the Ultra Minerals.

The Evolution of a Meal: From autotrophs to detritivores. (Trophic is Greek for feeder)

Autotrophs are the organisms that support all other trophic levels by synthesizing sugars and other organic molecules, using light energy and inorganic minerals derived from the air, land, or sea as their food. The cyanobacteria, protists, algae, and the terrestrial plants are the autotrophs—the primary producers forming the base of the food chain. The primary consumers are the herbivores that consume the autotrophs. The secondary consumers are the carnivores that eat herbivores. The tertiary consumers are the carnivores that eat other carnivores. Of course, there are the omnivores like us who take our meals throughout the food chain. And finally, there are the detritivores—consumers that derive energy from organic wastes and dead organisms, converting organic molecules of carbon and other minerals back into inorganic mineral forms.

So life evolved from simple organisms to lush tropical forests, teaming with life–cycling and recycling the minerals of life. Thousands of diverse species of plants sending their roots into the earth, sucking up its precious minerals into their bodies, while at the same time absorbing through their leaves minerals and light energy from the air–all to be used in their physiological processes. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate from these forests, their cells being fed by plants, bursting in mineral content, containing over 80 different mineral–co-factors toward the healthy physiological functioning of their bodies.

Did you know that the total weight of the microbial life forms within the soil is greater that the combined biomass of all other organisms on the planet? These microbial life forms enable the root systems of plants to take up the minerals of the earth into their bodies for their physiological processes. The microbes plus a multitude of minerals make for healthy plants which in turn make for healthy animals, and all making a healthy compost when returned to the soil in death.

But, to borrow from the Apollo 13’s famous quote, “Houston, we’ve got a problem.”

In the last 50 years we’ve seen the destruction of over 50% of our supply of topsoil needed for food production. Extensive topsoil has been lost through the overuse of inorganic fertilizers, erosion and farming practices that deplete soil nutrients.

Today the soil around the world shows no more that 20 minerals. The nutritional value of modern food isn’t just declining, it’s collapsing. The soil in the North American continent has had an average of 85% mineral depletion over the past 100 years–the worst of any other country in the world.

There are two sources of nutrients from the soil: the living organisms and the mineral content. Both are being decimated, and the results are foods with diminished nutritional value.

“The alarming fact is that food- fruits and vegetables and grains- now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contains enough of certain needed nutrients [minerals and microbes], are starving us no matter how much we eat of them.” (US Senate Document 264, 1936)

The eminent scientist and two-time Nobel Laurent Linus Pauling claimed that “You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.”

It is well established within the holistic medical community that mineral supplementation is a critical adjunct to achieving good health, and there are many mineral products within the marketplace to choose from. They can be divided into three forms—metallic, chelates, and colloidals.

Metalic minerals come from ancient sea beds, ground up rock and soil. They are positively charged and hydrophobic. The body can assimilate no more than 8% of the metallic minerals it consumes. Examples of these are ferrous (iron) sulphate, magnesium oxide, and calcium carbonate. Very cheap and found in your typical drug and grocery store. They are certainly appropriate food for plants but not for humans.

Chelated minerals come in several forms. Amino acids are commonly used as the chelating agent. These are nothing more than a metallic mineral that has been linked with a protein or amino acid which helps dissolve the mineral. Possibly improving the absorption to 40%. There are also the organic acid chelates such as citrates, aspartates, glycinates and malates which provide better absorption.

Colloidal minerals is the form in which we find plant-derived minerals. They are negatively charged, hydrophilic, and nano-sized. They form direct hydrogen bonds with water and are therefore water soluble and nearly 100% absorbable without digestion, even through the skin. Metallic and chelated minerals are 200 to 10,000 times larger than plant-derived minerals. Plant based colloidal minerals are digested nearly instantly, providing immediate benefits.

The challenge then in creating an ideal human mineral supplement is to find plant- sourced material with the wide assortment of minerals necessary for optimizing human health. And, we feel we have accomplished this with our newest product.

I present to you our newest Therapeutic Foods—Ultra Minerals- Mesozoic Substrate.

What is Mesozoic Vegetate?

About seventy-five million years ago, Earth’s fertile, mineral-rich soil produced lush green forest and wholesome, succulent, wild fruits and vegetables. This was an era when the soils near the earth’s crust contained at least 84 minerals. The numerous mineral elements available at the time may explain why a tree grew 10 feet its first year. According to science, all life at that time, whether plant or animal, was extremely healthy and it is assumed that this was a direct result of the plants’ ability to extract at least seventy or more minerals for the soil. As the thick growth of vegetation died, it accumulated in large piles and years later, it was buried from rock and mud flows and deposits of sand and silt. The weight of the overflow compacted or compressed out all of the moisture, and what remains today is a deposit of pure, dried, prehistoric plant derivatives.

In the above photo, the darker strata towards the top is mesozoic vegetate. These deposits are accessible to be mined at various locations around the world. The Mesozoic vegetation that we’ve sourced for the Ultra Minerals comes from the United States. Using pure water we are able to extract over 72 different kinds of minerals from the prehistoric vegetable matter. We then take this hydrocolloidal solution and drum dry it leaving a pure mineral powder of nano-sized, negatively charged elements that when rehydrated with water are immediately absorpable. We put 150mg of this pure mineral powder in a vegetarian capsule, 60 capsules to a bottle. It is Kosher, and with no excipient. Cheers—To your health!

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

Cold-water extracted from a pristine source of Mesozoic Vegetate, Ultra Minerals delivers a full spectrum of important plant-based elements and minerals in varying trace amounts, the majority of which are absent from our foods and mineral supplements currently on the market. Plant-based minerals which are naturally chelated through plant root uptake and digestion.

As you can see from the label, each capsule contains 150mg of pure negatively charged colloidal minerals, that are in nano-sized particles—smaller than oxygen or hydrogen atoms. They ionically bond with water molecules and are 100% bioavailable. They can be absorbed through the skin. Take one to two capsule a day.

The Last Quiz Answer:

This amazing bird of the night is a Hoot Owl. They prefer to live deep in the forest. They mate for life, and can live up to 23 years. Hoot Owls, also called Barred Owls, are opportunistic hunters—here’s their menu: rats, squirrels, rabbits, bats, moles, opossums, minks, weasels, woodpeckers, grouse, pigeons … you get the picture. The female lays 2 to 4 eggs (white and almost perfectly round) and then nests on them with the male bringing her food. Once hatched the babies remain in the family for four months before they leave home.

In the first and still the most comprehensive study of global soil misuse, scientists at the International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC) in the Netherlands estimated in 1991 that human kind has degraded more than 7.5 million square miles of land. Our species, in other words is rapidly trashing an area the size of the United States and Canada combined.

Dear Friends,

Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know: the earth does not belong to man—man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. All things are connected. (Chief Seattle 1854)

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us —universe — a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. (Albert Einstein 1949)

I’d like you to meet Bob Randall, a Yankunytjatjara elder. This is a quote from an interview with him and a video of that interview—The Land Owns Us.

We live on the land as people of the land. To us it was a natural way of being. Being part of all that is, is just the way you was. You didn’t see anything different from you. It was a way of life that was inclusive of all life. If you are alive you are connected with everything else that is alive. We were raised with that teaching. We used to feel that the land owns us. The land grows all of us up. We must care with unconditional love for the land around us, our mother. It’s our responsibility. When your in nature your living with family and when you include everything that is alive in that space. How can you be lonely? (Bob Randall 2006)

Three fellow human beings from different times and different cultures offer us words of wisdom, a way of being a part the world that is healthy and whole—systemic view of life. Let’s take their words deeply into our hearts.

Dohrea and I have dreamed of people from all over the world to join together, and finally it is starting to happen. The movement for freedom and justice started in Iran then spread to the Middle East, the Arab Spring—Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria and more. And now it has arrived to America—Occupy Wall Street—with the cry, it’s time for the 99% to stand up! From New York City it is has spread and is spreading to 100s of cities in America and 1000s of cities in the world—Tokyo, Sydney, London, Paris, Liverpool, Prague, Vancouver, Berlin, Buenes Aires, Johannesburg, Amsterdam, etc.

Everyone is weighing in with their lament for social justice. The world’s people want a change. Realize, we are not speaking so much about politics as a way of life that will bring wholeness to our planet. It is not about Democrats or Republicans, ideologies, or religious beliefs. It is simply about the way we have developed our world.

What do they/we want? We want social equity, environmental quality, economic sustainability.

How about you, are you taking action yet? Let’s take a look at some of the warriors who are doing the work to wake us all up, motivate us into the right/corrective action.

Reflection on our Earth from the amazing film, Planet Earth:

A bittersweet experience…The environmental debate today has never been more important. (Alastair Fothergill, Planet Earth Producer)

One in four mammals now are on the threatened list. One in three of all amphibians are on the threatened list. We know that progressively we are pushing more and more species to the edge of extinction. We have lost one-half of the world’s forests, one-half of the world’s wetlands, one-half of the world’s grasslands. We are eradicating many of the habitats that make up the world’s ecosystems. (James Peape, Director General WWF International)

The situation in the Asian region is extremely serious. Nearly all the natural rain forests are gone now from Thailand, and the Philippines and Indonesia are under a serious threat [of losing their natural resources] because of the consumption boom that is going on in China. (Tony Juniper Executive Director Friends of the Earth)

There are some basic life supporting services that nature supplies—fresh water, etc. If we continue to lose loads of species we are tearing the underlying fabric and that will have huge repercussions for the future of life on earth. (M.M. Sanjayan Lead Scientist, The Nature Conservancy)

Food Democracy Now weighs in, and provides us a way to add our voice—click on the link:

When Barack Obama ran for President he promised to end the “revolving door” between agribusiness lobbyists and government and to “regulate” factory farms. Unfortunately Obama’s decision to appoint Monsanto super lobbyist Michael Taylor as FDA Food Safety Czar broke the trust that the American people had placed in him during his campaign. Now Michael Taylor is heading up undercover investigations at the FDA into small raw milk dairy farmers that end in armed raids while the worst factory farm violators are getting away. It’s time for President Obama to stand up for real food safety and put an end to the assault against family farmers producing healthy food. Tell President Obama to DUMP Monsanto Michael Taylor! It’s time to protect family farmers and stop letting Big Ag lobbyists write the rules.

The Run—Dr. Dennis Godby,nephew Jonas Ely, and two sons Isaiah and Jeremiah are running from San Francisco to New York City to dramatize and publicize the urgent need for all Americans to take massive action and transform our nations health and spark a movement in Main Street America. Currently the team has run over 5,500 miles.

Dennis called me today, they were somewhere in Ohio. Dennis has fractured his foot, but the boys are still running, 30 miles a day! Dennis commented on how they are stopping at McDonald’s because that’s where you can meet Main Street America, and that also is where they can find a “hot spot” for their computers to catch up on emails. He shared with me the amazingly positive responses that they are getting and that the momentum and publicity of natural medicine is building. We chatted about the Occupy Wall Street phenomena now occurring around the world, and the many amazing individuals and organizations who are on the frontline of the battle to transform our present pathogenic paradigm. He mentioned Dr. Tabatha Parker, a class mate of his in naturopathic medical school who has founded the Natural Doctors International (NDI), which functions as a bridge between exported conventional medicine and centuries-old indigenous healing techniques, such as herbal medicine. Tabatha has been selected as one of 25 visionaries who are changing the world. See the Nov-Dec 2011 issue of UTNE Reader.

Our world is groaning! We need to change. We need to be a major part of that change. Are you getting involved?

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

What is the human microbiome and its relevance to us?

The microbiome is the full collection of microbes (bacteria, fungi, viruses, etc) that naturally exist within the human body … Our adult bodies harbor 10 times more microbial cells than human cells. Their genomes (the microbiome) endows us with physiological capacities that we have not had to evolve on our own and thus are both a manifestation of who we are genetically and metabolically and a reflection of our state of well being. (NIH)

The National Institute of Health through their Human Microbiome Project is now recognizing that our human body is an amalgam of human cells and microbial cells, and that all must function in a healthy synergistic way for our maximum health to be achieved—definately a step in the direction of a systemic view of life. A view that we fully embrace through our collection of reference probiotic organisms we use in our Therapeutic Foods product line—see our American Collection of synbiotic formulas (Original Synbiotic Formula, Beta Glucan Synbiotic Formula, High ORAC Synbiotic Formula and the Triple Berry Probiotic Formula) and Bulgarian Collection of synbiotic formulas (Supernatant Synbiotic Formula, Cranberry Pomegranate Synbiotic Formula and No. 7 Systemic Booster).

The Last Quiz Answer:

Our gastrointestinal tract, home to 100 trillion microorganisms, ten times the cell count of our human cells which number at around 10 trillion. The microbiome with at least a two fold more gene power—its protein/enzyme producing ability. This is an actual photograph of our GI tract, where you can see the bacteria of different kinds. Notice the rod shaped organisms. They would be of the Lactobacillus genus. This picture comes from the new video: Microwarriors- The Power of Probiotics.

The Global Oneness Project presents: What Would It Look Like? This short film lifts the spirit into the magic land where our heart opens to all humanity. You can feel your soul sore just a bit. As one interviewee in this film reflects, What if humanity said, ‘Let’s walk left instead of right?’ Take a moment to get a breath of fresh air.

Dear Friends,

Let’s have a discussion about probiotics. Theologian Earl Palmer says that the real conversations occurs around the kitchen table. Let’s have a kitchen table probiotic chat.

There is much ado these days about probiotic strains, but is it misleading? In this newsletter we will unveil the mystery of strain designation and therefore the commercialization of the probiotic world. As you read my examples, realize that these studies are utilizing strains that are arbitrarily named by the corporations that deem the bacteria as their intellectual property. If you study a plant, can you designate it as your own?

For my first example: Chris Hansen sites a 2006 study that looked at the health effect of Bifidobacterium BB-12 and Lactobacillus acidophilus LA-5 on diarrhea. 29 patients with collagenous colitis and diarrhea were randomized and received their product or a placebo. The results: reduction in bowel frequency of 50% occurred in 6 of 21 and in 1 of 8 patients receiving probiotic and placebo respectively.

What does LA-5 mean? This bacteria, I’m sure, has gone through the scientific nomenclature process and has an official scientific strain designation, but LA-5 is not it, neither is BB-12. Why do we not know it? Because it considered to be more profitable by corporations to keep the universal designation a mystery. It is a practice that is being frowned upon by the government, and for a good reason. This corporate behavior stifles scientific discovery. Read on!

Here is another example: A recent email newsletter from Institut Rosell-Lallemand claimed

On the basis of the secondary analysis of our data, results suggest that the efficiency of PF may differ depending on the stress state of individuals. Thus, a chronic use of Lactobacillus helveticus R0052 and Bifidobacterium longum R0175 formulation could also contribute to mental well-being of subjects with low levels of stress, and could represent a prophylactic strategy against stress-related diseases in the population subject to the constraints of daily life.

What we are looking at is not the research but the use of corporate naming system that does not correspond openly and publicly to the official scientific name of the strain. How can we work together to create a better world when we cannot have a simple open dialogue about scientific discovery?

Here’s another study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology in Sept. 2005: Lactobacillus casei DN-114-001 Inhibits the Ability of Adherent Invasive E-coli Isolated from Crohn’s Disease Patients to Adhere to and to Invade Intestinal Epithelial Cells.

In conclusion, probiotic strain L. casei DN-114 001 exerts strong inhibitory effects on both AIEC adhesion to and invasion of intestinal epithelial cells. The present in vitro study indicates that this probiotic may be efficient for preventive and curative probiotic therapy, since inhibitory effects were observed when intestinal cells were preincubated with L. casei DN-114 001 and when the probiotic was used in coincubation experiments. Thus, the use of this probiotic could be of great interest, especially in maintaining remission in a subset of CD patients harboring pathogenic AIEC colonizing early and chronic ileal lesions.

Who provides Lactobacillus casei DN-114-001 for these researchers? None other than Dannom, perhaps the largest yogurt manufacturer in the world—famous for their highly marketed Lactobacillus regularis yogurt. Is there such a scientific designation of a bacteria with the name “regularis”? Of course not. That is typical of commercial/marketing behavior, but it does not add to the science of probiotic research. Why? It leads us all into thinking that “they” have the secret formula (bacteria) that may lead us into the fountain of health. However, we cannot properly research that claim, without knowing the genome of the organism and its strain designation.

Commercial corporations spend millions on researching “their” particular strains, but behave towards the live organism as though it was a synthetic drug they have “patented” and own the rights to. Can anyone own an life form? We know Monsanto has created a havoc with genetically modified seeds (with much research behind their seeds), how soon will it be before the commercial world of probiotic gain control over the use of certain bacteria? When will they start demanding we use only “their” bacteria? Our government has not dealt with Monsanto growing power over farmers’ use of seeds. Are we heading the same direction with bacterial probiotic organisms? Remember, knowing the scientific universal designation of an organism is important for the advancement of medicine.

So, of course, doctors ask us, What “strains” do we use? and What research is there on our strains? Other good questions you might ask are, What kind of genetic confirmation do you regularly perform on your bugs? and What shelf stability have we performed on our products? Let’s talk about this.

How do we select strain?

Hopefully, my answer will help you to understand the true reality of strains in the probiotic commercial world, and how better to separate fact from fiction, and scientific reality from marketing hype.

First, we stay current with the ongoing peer-reviewed research on the human health benefits of probiotic organisms. Plus we’re highly schooled in the rich history of research on probiotic organisms from around the world. We know what we are looking for in strain competencies!

Here are a few of the attributes in general that we look for in probiotics:

• They must be acid and bile tolerant
• They should be good lactic acid producers
• Good gastrointestinal colonizers
• Produce bacterocins against a variety of pathogens— salmonella, E-coli, Staph, Clostridia, and other putrefying organisms
• They decompose foods by fermentation
• They produce bio-surfactants such as MUC-2
• They neutralize mycotoxins, and carcinogens such as heterocyclicamines and nitrosamines
• They aid digestion through acid and enzyme production, and produce vitamins
• And, the list goes on.

We look for universally designated strains that have been proven in trials to reduce IBS, IBD, improve digestion, increase SigA, stop diarrhea, etc. We choose strains that have been proven to be safe, strains that have been used in the fermentation of our foods from around the world.

Secondly, how do we obtain the organisms?

In sourcing the bacteria that we want to grow, trial and work with, there are many options. There are the major Repositories worldwide—ATCC in the USA, NCIMB in the UK, BCCM in Belgium, CIP in France, DSMZ in Germany, JCM in Japan, NCCB in Netherlands, ABRC in Argentina, and BTCC in Bulgaria.

ATCC is a private, nonprofit biological resource center and research organization whose mission focuses on the acquisition, authentication, production, preservation, development and distribution of standard reference microorganisms, cell lines and other materials for research in the life sciences.

These organizations provide the gold standard when it comes to typing and properly maintaining the mother culture collections. They give strain designations that conform to the official worldwide taxonomy. This is extremely important for it enables scientists from all over the world to know genetically which strain they are using. Thus knowledge builds upon knowledge as we all can grow and learn together. This way newly discovered attributes and benefits for a particular bacteria can be properly documented for all to see. This is the way the human genome was fully typed in record time by scientist from all over the world, openly communicating their relevant human genetic code discoveries for all to capitalize on.

The bacteria we use for our L. acidophilus in our American Collection of synbiotic products (I will talk more about our collection of strains in the clinical notes below) has the same genotype as the L. acidophilus ATCC 4356—that’s ATCC’s catalogue number. Using this number one can look up its spec sheet where is true universal name is listed, which is L. acidophilus Scav. We are licensed with ATCC (American Type Culture Collection) to buy organisms. They maintain the largest collection of prokaryotic organisms in the world. The advantage of buying directly from a repository is you know the true strain designation for the bacteria you are buying.

There are also the major commercial corporations mentioned earlier plus a number of small growers and various brokers who keep the true strain identity of their bacteria as a trade secret, giving instead their own unique corporate strain name—they consider it their intellectual property because they have invested millions in research. Therefore, the bug gets a corporate name at the strain and sometimes species level as well. Lactobacillus GG and Lactobacillus actavis serve as species level aliases in place of the real scientific naming and the examples that I sited above in the beginning of this newsletter show strain naming modifications.

All of this is standard operating procedure. What species or strains are the corporation really selling? Of course, one can have the organisms typed to find out their true genetic identity and scientific name, but what corporation are really trying to do is claim ownership of a bacteria—as though they discovered it, researched it, and now have claiming rights. It’s a life form not something they’ve made. If you study a tree, you may name it after yourself, but it doesn’t become the botanical name for the tree, and, you do not own it! This ownership of life is a monetary strategy right out of Monsanto’s play book. It’s a dangerous practice to allow to propagate—dangerous to the very diversity of life. We have discussed the importance of diversity in our other emails and will converse about it again!

And, finally you can grow your own. Let’s say you offer a probiotic supplement containing L. acidophilus for your patients to consume, and they do very well on it. Their symptoms improve, so you decide to collect a stool sample from your improved patients in order to culture and identify the various microbes present. Upon identifying the Lactobacillus, you can isolate it, rename it, calling it a human strain and use your own corporate naming system for its new strain designation. For example let’s say your company name is ABC, then you might give your bacteria the new name L. acidophilus ABC01. This is what companies who grow bacteria for sale do for the most part, conceiving of this practice as protecting their intellectual property.

Each grower maintains their own collection of probiotic organisms they have collected over time. Similar to a farmer collecting and saving their seeds. Just as nature stores the rich diversity of life in its seeds, so too is the diversity of life’s capabilities stored in bacterial genomes. Biodiversity is a very important concept to keep in mind when one considers the health of the biosphere. Our friends the probiotic organisms play a vital role in our health, and to think that one strain will give you the ticket to health is a corporate illusion propagated for companies to capture the probiotic market, saying things like “ours is the best and most uniquely superior strain.” It takes a community of good bacteria in our gut to make for a healthy human being. No one strain is the deal breaker for our health. If that were the case we would have gone extinct long ago. There is much redundancy of function in the human microbiome (collection of all bugs in and on a human being) in a healthy gut, and I will pick up on the thread of this conversation in future newsletters as it is a very important topic to chew on.

So what about our probiotics, what’s their name and why do they perform?

See Clinical Notes below.

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

The bacterial growing companies that we collaborate with for our probiotic organisms maintain their own cherished collections of bacteria. Organisms that they have worked with over the years—collections that they continually add to. We like to say that we have our American Collection and our Bulgarian Collection because they represent different collections derived from scientists in their respective countries. I am linking you here to our website library and the monographs on the Original Synbiotic Formula which highlights our America Collection and gives you strain designations, and the Supernatant Synbiotic Formula highlighting our Bulgarian Collection.

The Last Quiz Answer:

The Horned Frog is an ambush predator. It can squeeze its fat body into the forest substrate or into the leaf litter on the bottom of the forest floor, so that only the head shows. When anything that is smaller than their own body happens by, they will instantly grasp it in very sharp teeth lock it into their jaws and swallow it whole, after springing from the mud with a giant leap. Amazon Horned Frogs are aggressive and extremely territorial, viciously defending their personal territory and they are nothing if not voracious in their appetites. Some Horned frogs have been found dead with the remains of an animal it was impossible for them to swallow still sticking out from their jaws, that were clasped around it, and many times they attempt to swallow something at least as large as they are, and being unable to swallow, or to let go of it, both become victims to the Horned frogs greed.

We are the 99%! Americans are waking up. Have you been keeping tabs on the protest on Wall Street? Initially, the reporters didn’t know what to make of it—so many disparate voice. But it is becoming clear, the key concept emerging from the throng is a cry for social justice. Keith Olbermann Reads The Statement by Wall Street Protesters- October, 5th, 2011. Right on!

Dear Friends,

De-Evolution is getting top billing these days, and from none other than the great Steven Speilberg. Did you see Terra Nova this past Monday evening—his new TV drama series? It was fantastic. It is an important piece of work—extremely pertinent to our lives today. Check it out this evening (Monday night) on FOX at 8pm.

What’s special about Terra Nova? Really glad you asked!

To understand the underlying message and purpose in making Terra Nova one needs to understand the de-evolutionary worldview.

De-evolution is the process we are now experiencing in the biosphere (life on earth) whereby the more complex, higher forms of life (amphibians, reptile and mammals) are finding it increasingly difficult to survive. But not so with the simpler forms of life (bacteria, slime, mold, algae and jellyfish)—they’re thriving. The world is sliding back into the direction of the primordial ooze. We are de-evolving. As Jane Goodall recently said, The world is in a horrible mess.

Who else has hit the alarm bell regarding our polluting ways and ecologically destructive behavior? Dohrea in her doctorate studies combines the academic worlds of Social Justice, literature, film and television. She studies different social issues through the lens of our media or literature. She has discussed with me several films and TV shows that deal with the issues of sustainability. With this in mind think about the too short of a conversation (as I learned from Dohrea) that was stimulated by producer/director—Mike Cameron, through his film Avatar—the highest grossing film ever made. Avatar takes us into the magical world of the Na’vi, where nature and the Na’vi commune, behaving as one organism with many relating parts—like the experience of life for the indigenous peoples of earth, that is, before they were overrun by us. Avatar brings this sad story for our consideration, as we see, the Americans are engaged in raping and pillaging the Na’vi’s land for our own selfish needs.

Are you familiar with Hayao Miyazaki and his amazing body of work—Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, to name a few? His 1997 epic Japanese animated historical fantasy, Princess Mononoke became the highest grossing movie in Japan until Titanic took over the spot several months later. Mononoke is, in fact, the film that inspired Cameron to make Avatar. I am giving you a trailer for Princess Mononoke here. It is an absolutely amazing work of art and spirit. It presents the battle between nature and exploitive man. The wonderful thing about this movie is that Homo sapiens from all ages, 6 to 96, are delighted and inspired by this film, wanting to watch it many times. It points us so powerfully back into the direction of working with nature not against her. By the way, I learned about Miyazaki from my good friends Ron Mirzanagh,and his wife, Dr. Nazanine Kimiai. We watched the movies with their daughter Bahar at least twenty times each movie, and I am not exaggerating!

So, what’s my point?

Speilberg, Cameron and Miyazaki, three of the most powerful and influential producer/directors in the film industry, have given us films whose underlying message is that we are destroying life on earth. And, that we need to dramatically change our ways. What I have learned from Dohrea is very interesting—the mainstream cultural critics and commentators haven’t really got the message as their commentary on Avatar’s technological feat was positive, but according to them the message was too preachy! The critics of Terra Nova claim that “people will like it because they like dinosaurs.” Are we that dense? Yes we are!!! The media needs to come around these films and seize the opportunity to face the transnationals/governmental/military destruction of the biosphere. These three great artists are coming to the table. Are we?

With the foregoing in mind watch Terra Nova tonight, and see what you think. How can you do more within your own practice to stop the process of de-evolution engulfing our planet? After all it is what’s killing us all.

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

Probiotics are definately a growing focus for medicinal supplementation within the medical industry (both mainstream and integrative)—and rightly so. Within our own Therapeutic Foods Line seven out of our fifteen products have probiotic organisms within them. In next week’s Forward Thinking we will have an upfront conversation with you about supplementation with probiotics, helping you to separate fact from fiction, corporate self interest from real science. Stay tuned!!!

The Last Quiz Answer:

This magnificent creature is a Great White off the coast of New Zealand hunting seals not humans. Of the 100-plus annual shark attacks worldwide, fully one-third to one-half are attributable to great whites. However, most of these are not fatal, and new research finds that great whites, who are naturally curious, are “sample biting” then releasing their victims rather than preying on humans. It’s not a terribly comforting distinction, but it does indicate that humans are not actually on the great white’s menu.

Maude Bardow, author of Blue Covenant, the world’s leading authorities on water sustainability, the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, was arrested for the first time in her career, on purpose, for her stand against the proposed oil sand pipeline to be run from the tar sands of central Canada to the Gulf of Mexico (Texas). Check out the video of Maude’s Arrest. Check out the very articulate Professor Chris Busby on the Genocide in Japan that is happening because of the nuclear melt down disaster and spillage that is still happening! Two countries, Japan and the United States, that should be leaders in the world for environmental quality are failing to face the truth.