Dear Friends,

What’s the leading cause of mortality in the world today?

According to WHO (the World Health Organization), Chronic Disease is the leading cause of mortality in the world representing 63% of all deaths.

The cause is multi-factorial, too much pollution, increasingly virulent pathogens, unrelenting stress and poor lifestyle choices.  The cure is making corrections on all fronts.  Let’s look at pollution this week and be sure to read Clinical Notes (below) as we offer solutions to help our bodies, minds, and spirits!

Pollution:  Just how toxic is our world?

One of the most toxic industries in the world is the textile industry, in the mills and factories that that make our fabrics for our clothing, seating, drapes and carpeting. About one half of the world’s waste water problems are linked to the production of textile goods, and many of the chemicals used to dye or finish fabrics are known to harm human health.  Yet, the finished product for the clothing, the rugs we walk on, the chairs we sit on are considered “safe” for use in our homes.

For example:  William McDonough + Partners is a design firm of architects, planners and support staff specializing in environmentally sustainable design and growth.  This firm is a powerhouse for transforming our world’s environment into a healthy place.  They are one of my heroes and definately a force to get to know about for many good reasons. Their link to their website is in Green Facts.  Check them out!!!

At any rate, Rohner Textils, a textlle factory in Switzerland, made a decision to correct their toxic waste problem.  They brought in McDonough + Partners to help them create a manufacturing process without using toxic chemicals.  McDonough has studied 8,000 chemicals commonly used in the textile industry.  Their measuring criterion: “chemicals” that are safe enough to eat.  Of the chemicals they tested 7,962 failed.  Only 38 chemicals were considered safe.  In the case of Rohner Textils, the trimmings (the cloth not used on the chairs) was considered by the Swiss government to be hazaardous waste.  It couldn’t be disposed of in Switzerland and was shipped to Spain for burial.  The good news was that the safe 38 chemicals were used to create a complete line of fabrics, containing every color except black.  And, the botton line is that when the Swiss government came to check the water flowing out of the plant, there were absolutely no toxic chemcials in it.  Amazingly, the cost of manufacturing was 20% less for Rohners (Heath & Heath, 2010).

In the Fall of 2006 a piece was written on the front page of the Los Angeles Times entitled, U.S. Rules Allow the Sale of Products Others Banned Chemical-laden Goods Outlawed in Europe and Japan are Permitted in the American Market.   The article said that warehouses on the LA docks were filled to the ceilings with formaldehyde-laden plywood (a cancer-causing chemical) destined for homes in America with enough material to build 2 million kitchen cabinets.  China exported to the US more than half a billion dollars worth of hardwood plywood.  One birch plank from China, bought at a Home Depot Store in Portland, gave off 100 times more formaldehyde than is legal in Japan and 30 times more than allowed in Europe and China.

Also in June of 2006, the Environmental Defense Organization in Canada put out a study entitled, Polluted Children, Toxic Nation.  Children, parents and grandparents from five Canadian families of diverse demographics provided blood and urine samples that were tested for 68 toxic chemicals.  The laboratory tests detected 46 of 68 (average) in the 13 family members who were studies.  In total 36 carcinogens, 23 hormone disruptors, 12 respiratory toxins, 38 reproductive/developmental toxins, and 19 neurotoxins were detected in the study volunteers.

PBS Evening News report pointed our attention to the clear-cut timber lands in Oregon where the timber companies use helicopters to spray pesticides over the cropped areas so that only Douglas fir is able to grow back.  The residents in the communities around this forested area have begun to raise a stir about this, and it was found that 100% of the populus had 2,4-D and Atrazine in the urine (September 12th, 2012).

The good news is that we are aware and we are cleaning up our collective act. Lets do even more!

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

Even if you are being diligent in eating more fresh fruits and vegetables, and taking your supplements, the toxic burden on our bodies today requires a massive effort on all fronts to reduce the load.

We need supplements that are clean, potent and intelligent.  Nothing speaks to our body’s health holistically like food.  Our food system globally must change to one that provides clean, high actives foods.

The Therapeutic Foods Line helps our bodies to clean, detox, and heal.  The wildcrafted Phyto Power helps the liver detox (phase I and II), helps the kidney excrete and filter, helps purifying the blood (take two capsules daily).  The organic Cruciferous Sprouts stimulates Phase II enzymes production, protects against carcinogens (take four capsules daily).  The organic Chlorella helps to chelate heavy metals, supports the liver and cleans the blood (take four tablets daily).

The Last Quiz Answer:

Have you ever seen this awesome creature?  Here’s the Mudskipper (Periophthalmus modestus) in action! And, some amazing features:  (1) It breathes air and water. (2) Its frog like eyes allow for superb all round vision. (3) It spend as much time in the water as on land. (4) On land they breathe through their skin—called cutaneous breathing. (5) They hear sounds on land. (6) They are opportunistic carnivores.  Eating anything they can get into their mouth and swallow. (7) Captive mudskippers my become tame enough to be fed by hand.

Who is William McDonough?  Time Magazine recognized him in 1999 as a “Hero for the Planet,” stating that “his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that- in demonstratable and practical ways- is changing the design of the world.”  His beautiful, eloquent website spells it out.  Check out his investment fund!

Dear Friends,

Last week Dohrea and I were in Hawaii, lovely Hawaii—Maui to be exact, and brought back with us a wonderful treat for your delight, a few seconds of Maui’s heavenly sounding ocean.

On the surface Hawaii looks and feels great, seems healthy to the casual tourist, but we know better, one only needs to look closer.  Scientists estimate that unless we take immediate action we could lose up to 70% of coral reefs by 2050 (The Nature Conservancy, 2012).  Hawaii has already lost much of theirs.  The coral reefs are the tropical rain forests of the oceans, home to most of its species.  This is just the beginning of the nightmare.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch flows from southern California, to Japan, just barely missing Hawaii to its south—for now.  It is twice the size of Texas, a river filled with plastic debris.  Just like the acidification of our oceans that is killing our coral reefs, the warming of our planet which is melting our glaciers and raising sea levels worldwide, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch River is filling our oceans with a 100 million tons of plastic garbage that finds its way into the bellies of young birds.  It is the result of our unconscious, thoughtless consumerism that’s littering our planet with toxic waste.  This young albatros (in the picture to your right) died not on the shores of Laguna Beach but in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, on Midway Island.  An island that should be a tropical paradise but has become a garbage dump for cigarette lighters and plastic bags, all courtesy of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch River.  Ten thousand dead birds can be found on Midway.  This tragedy is chronicled by photographer Chris Jordon’s film, Midway: Message From The Gyre. Click on this!  You’ll get some great information and links.

But this is just the beginning of our discussion, isn’t it?  There is so much more to say.  The US currently has more that 85,000 chemicals in commerce.  There are approximately 2500 high production volume chemicals which are manufactured at a rate of more than one million pounds annually with nearly 45% of these chemicals lacking adequate toxicological studies to evaluate their health effects on humans and wildlife.  Most of these toxins find their way eventually to the oceans. Three-quarters of the earth’s surface is covered by oceans and one-half the worlds population live within a stones throw of the oceans.

Here’s Maui’s beautiful ocean’s song to us.  Just click on the picture:
Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com


Clinical Note:

“….everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.  This is the Indian Theory of existense.”  Christal Quintasket (1888-1936) Salish.

We are presently, through our collaborating partners, making major inroads into relationships with the Native People of Alaska and the First Nation Peoples of Canada. Their elders intimate knowledge of the traditional use of the native plants is beyond exciting.  It is enlightening.

And, their attitude towards life, as expressed by Chief Seattle, bring healing to our souls:  ”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 belong to the earth.  This we know.  All things are connected like the blood that unites one family.  All things are connected.”

The Last Quiz Answer:

This little collection of young female goats is part of a 400 head herd of organically raised goats. They are very tame, very curious and well loved.  They have a laid back life style, migrating through different meadows for their food. Each goat is free of pesticides, herbicides, growth hormone and antibiotics. They produce a wonderful, high quality, nutricious milk and colostrum. We are working on our business agreement with their parents, who are very wonderful people.  Will share soon.

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a very important environmental group to get to know.  For 50 years TNC has helped protect environmentally precious areas in the world using the simplest possible method.  It buys them.  It buys land at market prices, making it offlimits to environmentally damaging uses, such as development  or logging. (Made to Stick 2007)

Dear Friends,

Happy Fourth of July to you! We are half way through 2012, and I propose a new tradition—to have a Fourth of July resolution. We produced the Therapuetic Foods with a resolution to promote the restoration of our soil and food through organic farming.

Transforming our world’s food system to one that mandates farming practices such as permaculture, biodynamic farming, and the One Straw Revolution will without question transform our world to one of abundance. It is a worthy goal, an imperative for our very survival as a species. It’s that simple, it’s that urgent.

It makes sense for our 4th resolution to be something like, what can I do better for America, or perhaps better yet, what can I do for freedom. How would you answer that?

I’ll share with you my brief thoughts, and the thoughts of two of my favorite activists: Anne Leonard and Chris Hedges.

As you know from our weekly newletters we have a passion for issues of social justice. To us that is what America is supposed to offer the rest of the world—a beacon of light. We have a long, long, long ways to go to make that become a reality. In fact, much of the hardship of the world today is our direct doing. But we still have the freedom to make our voices heard. So my Fourth Resolution is to strengthen my acitivist spirit through finishing my book by December, so that I can use it in 2013 as a platform to promote the Therapeutic Foods paradigm (see Clinical Notes below).

Annie Leonard, the author of The Story of Stuff, wrote in her 4th of July website’s message:

Cicero said: ‘Freedom is participation in power.’ The Declaration of Independence wasn’t forged so we could be free to sit on our couches, free to choose from hundreds of TV channels, as climate change worsens, industries keep churning out toxic pollution and income inequality hits record highs. The Declaration of Independnece was created so we could participate in our own governance and build a better future. So, let’s do it. Let’s execise those citizen muscles.

To read Annie’s full 4th message and see her up and coming new film, The Story of Change, click on the link above.

Chris Hedges has just come out with his most recent book, which he wrote with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. It is called, “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” (2012). Hedges and Sacco traveled to the most depressed pockets of poverty in the US. He calls them “sacrifice zones” where corporate capitalism (corporate greed) has run amuck. It is an extremely impacting book. Here is a link to an interview with Chris Hedges about his book. Here’s a quote from the interview:

The sacrifice zones are growing all across the country because when everything becomes a commodity, the natural world becomes a commodity, human beings become a commodity, that are exploited until exhaustion, we collapse. We are destroying human capitol and we are destroying the natural world.

So my good friends what is your Fourth of July Resolution? I would love to hear them.

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

What is the Therpapeutic Foods Paradigm?

Our bodies are so bombarded with pollution, pathogens and stress that they desperately need to be fed real food, sustaining food, energizing food, organic food with high actives.

Even if we eat seven servings of fruits and vegetables a day, it’s good but it is not enough, we need powerful organic food, food that doesn’t add more pollutants to our body burden, but food that impacts our bodies therapeutically and makes them strong.

Here is the link to read further about the Therapeutic Foods paradigm.

Also, read about the World Today, the reason we need to fight for a clean environment.

The Last Quiz Answer:

This beautiful creature is a hummingbird. They are found only in North and South America. South America has the largest variety of hummingbirds with Ecuador having 163 different species. They range in size, some not much larger than a bumble bee, with the giant hummingbird being 8 inches in length, about the size of a large blackbird—amazing isn’t it? Hummingbirds are not only the smallest bird but are the smallest animal with a backbone. In normal flight they beat their wings 80 times per second. However, they can fly up to 60mph, with wings flapping 200 times per second. This happens during their courtship dives, they’re charged up!

On July 17th Annie Leonard and her team at The Story of Stuff Project are coming our with their newest movie (video): The Story of Change. Check out this trainer. The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world..

Dear Friends,

Yes, you have read about sugar before, and we all know how bad it is for our health. But it is all around us, and global habits are tough to change. So read on! And then plug into our Energy Sustain, you’ll find it below in our Clinical Notes. Tune in to this unique product. Lets roll-up our sleeves now and talk about sugar!

It is very clear, the diseases of the world today are chronic degenerative in nature with etiologies that can be distilled down to pollution, pathogens, stress and life style choices. We live in a global world where China’s pollution is our pollution, Africa’s pathogens are our pathogens, and our fast food franchises and big box processed food chains are the world’s health problems. In today’s email I want to talk about one shining factor in processed foods and fast food restaurants that is clearly driving the diseases of obesity, hearts disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and many cancers—added sugar.

America is the fattest nation on earth. Nearly 80 million Americans over 20 are obese, and another 12.5 million children and adolscents are obese (CDC 2012). What makes us Americans so special? Do we have less will power than the rest of the world in terms of our personal management of life style practices, i.e. in the way we eat and exercise? Not at all! In fact the rest of the world is rapidly catching up with us. So, what’s the problem?

The short answer is to watch this video: Sugar: The Bitter Truth. Its presenter is Robert Lustig, MD., a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a crusader against simple sugars being added to our foods. He maintains that they are poisons to our bodies and the prime causes for the pandemic of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, metabolic sydrome and many cancers. They must to be regulated like alcohol, drugs and cigarettes.

The following, for your convenience, is a summary of a few of the points from his talk:

• Dr. Lustig is not talking about the carbohydrates inherant in natural whole foods. They are our source of glucose—the energy of life. The problem is the addition into our highly processed foods and drinks of sugars: sucrose and fructose (with an emphasis on fructose).
• In nature, fructose, sucrose and other simple sugars are mixed in with fibers and when consumed are thereby digested in a modulated fashion. That’s as nature intended it and is good and necessary for our health.
• The problem is with our commercial food industry where they have put added sugar in every processed food one can image. All are laced with sugar.
• Americans now consume 150lb/year per person of sugar. That is one-third of a pound per day.
• The liver gets overloaded with fructose and converts some of it into fat, causing fatty liver and obesity. Some of that fat ends up in the blood stream and helps generate dangerous small density LDLs (VLDLs). These molecules can load within the blood vessel walls and form plaques and are causative with heart attacks.
• Sugar activates the brain like cocaine and people build up a tolerance like they do with drugs and the more you eat the less you feel the reward. The result is you eat more than ever.
• Fructose does not inhibit ghrelin, the hormone from the stomach that says to your brain, I’m hungry. Fructose also doesn’t stimulate leptin the hormone that tells your brain, I’m full. So we binge on sugar.
• Men should consume no more than 150 calories per day of added sugars (remember we are talking about added sugars here not the normal carbohydrates that are natural in whole foods). And women just 100 calories. that is less than the amount that is in one can of soda.
• The answer is to get the added sugar out of our foods.

In summary Dr. Lustig says it is a battle we must all fight. The problem is that what has been good economically for the food industry, adding cheap sugar, is bad for us. There is no middle ground. If one looks at the S&P 500 during these economically stressed times, corporations such as General Mills, Kraft, Proctor and Gamble, Conagra are all doing well. But why? Because food taste good with sugar and it’s cheap, it is that simple. We need to take responsibility for a global change, in our minds first, and then in the way we eat (especially when we go out), and then in the way we teach others about food and sugar. These companies, amongst many others, are the creators of sugar in our foods and the dealers of these foods around the world. 25% of our US exports are in these foods. It is as bad as drug dealing. What to do? A global policy to reduce sugar consumption?
Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

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The Last Quiz Answer:

Chameleons are a distinct and highly specialized clade of lizards. What’s a clade? It’s a group consisting of species, past and present, that represent a branch in the Tree of Life. There are approximately 160 species of chameleons in the world, ranging from Africa to Spain, from south Asia to Indian, from Hawaii to California and Florida. Many keep them as household pets. Of course, as their name implies many can change their color to match their environment. Here is an amazing You Tube video of such a changling-The multi-colored chameleon.

On July 17th Annie Leonard and her team at The Story of Stuff Project are coming our with their newest movie (video): The Story of Change. Check out this trainer. The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world..

Dear Friends,

Not counting the microbial world, and just looking at the plant and animal world, how many species would you estimate that there are on mother earth?

The rough estimate would be around 10,000,000.

Determining how many microbial species there are is a tough task, for several reasons.  For one, most microbes cannot be grown in culture, which makes it hard to determine their genetic identity.  We use the nucleotide sequences of the 16S rRNA gene to determine species. These sequences are unique for each species, and have remained a constant, which means they are highly conserved for each species (they do not change), thereby providing their fingerprint over the last millenium.  These sequences also show how closely related one species is to the next and what  ancestor they may share in common.

The Tree of Life has changed its look.  It has become a molecular sequence-based phylogenentic tree, with the concept that genetic base sequences can be used to relate organisms’ evolutionary path. This was first proposed by Carl Woese in 1990.

As you can see there are three domains— Bacteria, Archaea and Eucarya.  The bacteria and archaea are prokaryotes (organisms without nuclear membranes), and the eukaryotes posses a nucleus with a nuclear membrane.  Thus from the bottom group you have the protozoa (microscopic), fungi (some microscopic), plant and animals.

From the Tree of Life diagram it appears that the bacteria/archaea world will have much more biodiveristy than the eucarya world.  And, this is certainly true, many times more.  Using the new genetic testing technologies scientists are combing the earth, taking samples from the deepest ocean floors to volcanoes, from the Dead Sea to the Great Salt Lake, from Old Faithful geyser at Yellowstone to Lake Vostok which is buried under Antarctic ice.  They are finding bacteria and archaea, and are coming to grips with just how incredibly vast the microbial world is.

The number of individual microbes on Earth is thought to be as high as 4 to 6 times 10 to the 30th power, most of them are thought to live in subsurface layers of the land and the oceans.  But no one really knows how many microbial species there are, even to the nearest order of magnitude (estimates run from ten million to as high as one billion distinct species).  In a single cubic meter of soil alone, there may be millions of different microbial species, and yet only 6,000 species of bacteria and archaea have been formally named. (Sustaining Life, Eric Chivian & Aaron Bernstein 2008)

In the beautiful Sustaining Life, which is must read for all medical professionals, Chivian and Bernstein make the point that our very survival is dependent on biodiversity and that the rate of species loss to extinction is a harbinger to the next mass extinction. The present rate of loss of species is a thousands times above the baseline before Homo sapien came on the scene.  There was only this rate of loss in deep time before the past five mass extinction of the biosphere. They clearly make the point that this present loss of diversity is caused by our actions and that it is in our hands to reverse it.

Next week we will look at how does loss of species diversity affects our lives?

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

When it comes to probiotics we believe in diversity.  We presently give you seven different probiotic formulas to choose from. Here’s a combination we find very effective.  Add one teaspoon of Number 7 Systemic Booster and one heaping tablespoon of the Beta Glucan Synbiotic Formula to a large glass of water.  The combination gives you 12 different strains of lactic acid bacteria plus 15 grams of soluble fiber.  The good bug count is 40 billion. Plus, you are getting beet, pomegranate, tart cherry, cranberry, pineapple (all organic), carnitine, carnosine, Vitamin D3, folate and fructoborate.

The Last Quiz Answer:

This amazing bird is a cross-beaked finch.  They live in the boreal forest, even in its most northerly reaches. Their beak’s unusual cross over shape gives them the ability to pry open the hard outter plates of the spruce cones and dine on the inner seeds.  The different shapes of the beaks of finches around the world in the multitude of habits spawned the genesis of his natural selection hypothesis.  There is a wonderful book, The Beak of the Finch, by a team of Princeton scientists who, based on their 20 year study, confirmed Darwin’s thesis.

Forging Food Sovereignty with Farmers:  Dismantling the Industrial agri-foods complex at the local food system level must be accompanied by the construction of alternatives that suit the needs of small scale producers and low-income consumers, worldwide.  Check out Food First.

Dear Friends,

We are beginning to wake up.  We desperately need fresh air!

We are awakening to the understanding that life on earth has the power, in the way that it behaves, to alter the very composition of the gasses that make up the troposphere (the troposphere being the blanket of air covering the earth where all the weather takes place).

Furthermore, being the self-conscious, reflective animals that we are, we’ve come to understand that the way in which we have conducted ourselves on earth since the industrial revolution, has brought us into a crisis point that in all likelyhood, unless we get a hold of ourselves, will lead us to our very extinction, along with that of most other higher, high oxygen requiring creatures—the Sixth Mass Extintion.

When comparing the atmospheres of our closest neighboors in our solar system, Mars and Venus, to the earth’s atmosphere, Dr. James Lovelock (founder of the Gaia Hypothesis)  contends that, the Venusian atmosphere yielded figures of 95-96% carbon dioxide, 3-4% nitrogen, with traces of oxygen, argon and methane. The same analysis for Mars returns 95.3% carbon dioxide, 2.7% nitrogen, 1.6% argon, only 0.15% oxygen and only 0.03% water. In comparison the Earth’s atmosphere at present is 77% nitrogen, 21% oxygen with traces of carbon dioxide, methane and argon.

Chemically speaking, life enables the atmosphere to exists in a state far from equilibrium.  Conversely, if there was no life on earth its atmosphere would resemble that of Mars and Venus with levels of CO2 well over 90%, and oxygen being negligible.  Basically, reaching a state of equilibrium.  Life exists far from equilibrium.

So, the rising CO2 levels are very alarming, especially since they haven’t been at 380 ppm since 2 million years ago.  The more they rise the hotter the planet gets, the hotter the planet gets, the more the ice caps melts, the oceans rise, and the higher species die.  We’ve been here before, five times. This time, extinction, will be of our own doing.

Fortunately, we see help coming from all corners of the earth.  It is literally happening all around us, and the goal with our Forward Thinking is to help connecting the dots of positive movements so we can be encouraged and motivated to participate in quickening the change.  The following are a couple more points of light for us to know about:

Number One:  It’s happening in our very own neighborhoods.

On Tuesday afternoon Dohrea and I drove to Seattle to one of our new favorite food coops, the Madison Market.  As we arrived to our destination I noticed right across the street the most gorgeous wooden office building going up. I had to take a picture, so I took out my trusty cell phone and took these two shots. As you can see in the second picture it says the Bullitt Center.  Would you like to know what the Bullitt Center is up to?  It’s very exciting!

Their goal is to be the greenest commercial building in the world. They have entered into the Living Building Challenge.  To be certified as a Living Building a structure is required to be self-sufficient for energy and water for a least 12 continuous months and to meet rigorous standards for green materials and for quality of its indolor environment.  The Living Building Challenge requires a project to meet 20 specific imperatives within seven performance areas.

For the Bullitt Center, meeting the imperatives will include the following:

• Site:  The location will support a pedestrian, bicycle, and  transit-friendly lifestyle.
• Water:  Rainwater will be collected on the roof, stored in an underground cistern and used throughtout the building.
• Energy:  A solar array will generate as much electricity as the building uses.
• Health:  The building will promote health for its occupants with inviting stairways, operable windows and features to promote walking and resource sharing.
• Materials:  The building will not contain any “Red List” hazardous materials, including PVC, cadmium, lead, mercury and hormone-mimicking substances, all of which are commlonly found in building components.>
• Equity:  Unlike many office buildings, large operable windows will offer fresh air and daylight to all the people who work in the Bullitt Center.  The goals of Seattle’s Community High Road Agreement will guide selection of the construction team.

Their website is trendously informative, an important resource.  It will take you into a whole new world of enlightened building design.  Click here or above at the Bullitt Center.

Number Two:  It is happening all over the world.

350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis.  They have a fabulous educational site, that will arm you with all the information you needs to grasp and to speak on behalf of the issues regarding global warming.

They just completed an online project called Climatedots.org where people from all over the world took videos and photos of climate changes occuring in their part of the world.  Check out the link.  Communities gathering from all over the world—Brazil, London, Florida, Afghanistan, Egypt, Kenya, Micronesia, etc—it’s grassroots and people are getting involved.  I will let these links do the talking.

The coral reefs of our Maldivian island is bleaching and breaking apart because of climate change, threatening our community, country, and culture. Photo By: Mohamed Fahumee.  These islanders are standing on the dead coral at low tide.  Very sad.

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

Energy Sustain:  organic quinoa, amaranth, chia, buckwheat and millet, all especially milled to make their nutrients available.  There is no gluten, yeast, wheat, corn, soy, or excipients and additives of any kind.  They are clean and pure. They are kosher. Cruciferous Sprouts:  broccoli, daikon radish, red radish, watercress, kale, mustard, cabbage.  All freeze dried sprouts harvested on the third day when their glucosinolates are at their heights.  Phyto Power:  whole and very potent multi-species of wildcrafted Blueberry, Dandelion and Rosehips—just think of the red, blue and green power.  Ultra Minerals:  72 nano sized, negatively charged plant derived minerals from Deep Time—predating humans destructive involvement with the land.  Original Synbiotic Formula:  good lactic acid bacteria and organic inulin from chicory root.

The Last Quiz Answer:

Lynx are masters of deep snow and cold winters. In Washington, they are at home among the boreal habitats in Okanogan County, where winter persists for much of the year.

Their down-like fur protects them from the cold, and their large paws (the size of a cougar’s foot) and small weight (similar to a 25-pound bobcat) enable lynx to float on the deep fluffy snows of the high elevations of northern Washington. These large feet act as snowshoes for lynx to pursue their primary prey, the snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus).

Excessive numbers of fires in the past decade may be a threat to the species’ survival in Washington … In the past decade, more than 50 percent of these spruce and subalpine fir forests along the northeastern Cascades have been burned. (from a talk by Gary Koehler, wildlife research scientist, Washington Deparment of Fish and Wildlife).

I just picked up a book, that just came out, at our new food coop in Bellevue called Local Dollars, Local Sense:  How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity.  It has received some very high endorsements from authors I respect.  For example John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman (a must read) said, This long awaited book is a masterpiece and a field guide to a much needed journey into creating the kind of economy our children will be happy to inherit.  Future generations will praise Local Dollars, Local Sense as one of those seminal works that helped transform human societies.

Dear Friends,

To your right, the Spirit of the Northwoods greets you. Its home, the great Boreal Forest encircling the Artic.

In total, the boreal forest covers 6.41 million square miles. Also called the Taiga, it is found throughout the high latitudes between the tundra and the temperate forest,from about 50 degrees to 70 degrees North. In North America it covers most of inland Canada and Alaska as well as parts of the extreme northern continental US.  It also covers most of Sweden, Finland, much of Russia, Northern Kazakhstan, northern Mongolia and northern Japan. A little over 30% of the world’s forests are in the far North.

The boreal forests cover 17% of the Earth’s land surface area, and as such are a big storage area for carbon—a carbon sink.  In this picture the boreal forests are dark green areas, the tundra and barren land are tan, while crops and grasslands are yellow.

The Last Quiz Answer:

Research concerning the chemical analysis of the composition of the Venusian atmosphere has yielded figures of 95-96% carbon dioxide, 3-4% nitrogen, with traces of oxygen, argon and methane. The same analysis for Mars returns 95.3% carbon dioxide, 2.7% nitrogen, 1.6% argon, only 0.15% oxygen and only 0.03% water. In comparison the Earth’s atmosphere at present is 77% nitrogen, 21% oxygen with traces of carbon dioxide, methane and argon.

The earth’s atmosphere exist in a state far from equilibrium because of life, the biosphere—Gaia.

350.org is building a global movement to solve the climate crisis.  Their online campaigns, grass roots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by people in 188 countries.  They are connecting the dots all around the world.  They are the life force of the biosphere and their pulse is strong.  This is good news my friends, let’s reverse the de-evolutionary path.

Dear Friends,

Home, home on the range.  Where the deer and the antelope play.  Where seldom is heard a discouraging word.  And, the skies are not cloudy all day”—a verse from a good old American cowboy song from times gone bye.

Just imagine what the experience of Lewis and Clark must have been like as they crossed into the Great Plains and saw this vast grassland, home to 64 million bison, along with wolves, bear, birds, bees and humans (the native Americans)—a humming, thriving healthy ecosystem.

The soil of the prairie was rich and deep, filled with microbes, worms, insects and organic matter, able to absorb and sequester carbon from the atmosphere, thereby reducing excessive CO2 levels (greenhouse gasses), protecting against the warming our planet, and resultant erratic and violent weather patterns.  The Great Plains soil was able to hold water and to filter water, thereby providing protection against draughts, erosion and providing to its inhabitants’ clean drinking water—an ecosystem perfectly in tune. Mother Nature provides these ecosystem services for free.  The biosphere left in the hands of Mother Nature to do its work, creates grasslands, forests and abundant biodiversity, not desserts and wastelands.

But, what do we have today in the mid west?  Just a handful of bison (count them with one hand), and over 40 million cattle and other live stock in animal prisons (CAFOs). The cattle are fed foods that they are not genetically able to handle, given antibiotics to keep them alive long enough to push their unhealthy bodies into rapid growth and to hasten their trip to the slaughter house.  Have you seen Food Inc.?  If not, you truly owe it to yourself to see it.  It is a perfect educational tool for the whole family, for your patients, for the public school systems of America.  Food Inc. exposes factory farms for what they are. The corruption of our food system worldwide, by a handful of giant transnational corporation, becomes apparent and understandable.  The need for action unmistakable.

The grasslands of the midwest have become vast monocultural plantations, and because of the modern industrial agricultural practice of the heavy tilling of the soil, pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, we’ve degraded its ability to hold carbon, losing it back to the atmosphere as CO2. The weakened soil is easily eroded, the increasing wind storms and tornadoes have carried away much of the top soil, and with it the services it provides us.  In some areas of the Great Plains, topsoil has decreased in thickness from twelve inches to 4 inches.  During the past 50 years or so our actions have resulted in the loss of roughly one fifth of the earth’s topsoil, one fifth of its land unsuitable for agriculture (Sustaining Life, How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, 2008, Oxford University Press).

What can we do?  Plenty!  These are very exciting times and there is much being done. Briefly, I’ll introduce you to some exceptional individuals and organizations, worthy of your checking out.  Here are their links:

The Soil Carbon Coalition- Put the carbon back where it belongs.  Check out this non-profit organization.  They have an amazing solution.  If you have only a minute, go to the bottom of their home page and click on the Carbon Cycle Video, and if you’re really pressed for time just click on Part 2.  It is well done.  You’ll be glad you did.

The Polyface Farm- At Polyface our goal is to collect as much solar energy as possible. And grow as much grass as possible because we are completly grass based. In this link you’ll meet Joel Salatin, and his Polyface farm—it shows us what a farm can be.  It’s a bit of heaven on earth—truly home on the range.

That’s it.  I’ll keep this email short and sweet because my hope is that you will take just a moment to check out the important links above—they present a new vision of how to stop global warming, and reverse the de-evolutionary process.

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

Isn’t it time for a Spring cleaning of our body.  Many of you have your detox programs for your patients in the Spring.  Our new product fit right in.  Here they are:  Energy Sustain, Cruciferous Sprouts Complex, Chlorella, Phyto Power, Ultra Minerals and Original Synbiotic Formula.

Let’s look at them from right to left:  Energy Sustain:  organic quinoa, amaranth, chia, buckwheat and millet, all especially milled to make their nutrients available.  There is no gluten, yeast, wheat, corn, soy, or excipients and additives of any kind.  They are clean and pure. They are kosher. Cruciferous Sprouts:  broccoli, daikon radish, red radish, watercress, kale, mustard, cabbage.  All freeze dried sprouts harvested on the third day when their glucosinolates are at their heights.  Phyto Power:  whole and very potent multi-species of wildcrafted Blueberry, Dandelion and Rosehips—just think of the red, blue and green power.  Ultra Minerals:  72 nano sized, negatively charged plant derived minerals from Deep Time—predating humans destructive involvement with the land.  Original Synbiotic Formula:  good bacteria and good fiber.  Mix with a little dilute organic pear or apple juice—a good breakfast.

The Last Quiz Answer:

This amazing creature is the Amur leopard.  The last remaining viable wild population, estimated 20-25 individuals, is found in a small area in the Russian Province of Primorsky Krai, between Vladivostok and the Chinese border.

In adjacent China, 7-12 scattered individuals are estimated to remain. In South Korea, the last record of an Amur leopard dates back to 1969, when a leopard was captured on the slopes of Odo Mountain, in South Kyongsang Province.

It is estimated that between 1970-1983, the Amur leopard lost an astonishing 80% of its former territory. Indiscriminate logging, forest fires and land conversion for farming are the main causes.  According to the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), one of my most favorite conservation groups, believes that the Amur leopard can be saved from extinction if the present conservation initiatives are implemented, enhanced and sustained.

This Spring We Rise! April 9-15 we will gather across America, 100,000 strong, in homes, places of worship, campuses and the streets to train ourselves in non-violent action and join together in the work of reclaiming our country. History is calling; it’s time to step up. Hey guys, click on the above link, and check this out.  I did, and have signed up to go to an instructional meeting in my neighborhood, to get us ready to move in mass across the country.  There will be a meeting in your area to educate you in the non-violent protest process, all in preparation for the show of force in mass.

Dear Friends,

This gorgeous creature on the right is perhaps the most endangered mammal on the planet.  There are just a few left in the wilds.  This female and her cub were filmed by the Planet Earth documentary team—an extremely rare sighting.  Do you know the name of our beautiful animal?

Does it really matter if we loose to extinction an animal such as this?  What is it contributing to our lives?  Does it really matter that we are cutting down all the forests that make up its habitat?  We have been answering these questions for years, but let’s revisit, because it is important .  I’ll come back to our gorgeous creature, but meanwhile…

Hey, it’s Spring here, and hope springs eternally…right?  Mother Nature is sprouting, new buds are popping, chlorophyll is making its appearance once again.  What a gift we’ve been given, what a responsibility we have, regarding our relationship with Mother Nature.

Let’s talk about how and where we are getting this relationship right, and shine the light on the reason for our hope in the face of our self-made, but not inevitable, doom.

More of you have weighed in regarding my comments, in our March 14th Forward Thinking newsletter, on the recently published article, Red Meat Consumption and Mortality, and also to the supportive commentary offered by Dean Ornish in his article, Holy Cow! What’s Good for You is Good for our Planet—both basically promoting a vegetarian solution to the de-evolution world problem.

Adding to the point of view that all red meat is not bad and that there is a world of difference between a factory farmed animal and an organically pastured-only criter, was Karen Wennlund, Dispensary Manager and Clinical Herbalist for the Mederi Centre For Natural Healing. I will share some of the points she made in her email and her invaluble links to the major architechs of the solutions she is proposing.

Direct quotes from Karen’s email:

• The difference between conventional, factory farming, where probably 90% of the US [population] get their beef, and cows raised on perennial grasslands in the appropriate way (mimicking the way wild herbivores have co-evolved with predators and grass for thousands of years) is Light Years; and in terms of the health of people and health of the planet are not comparable, as they are two different animals, two distinctly different things!
• As far as people’s health, big differences in the omega 3 to omega 6 ratio of the purely grass fed variety to that of the CAFO variety.
• But really what I know more about is the carbon sequestration that happens when cows and other herbivores are grazed correctly on perennial pastures.  Fact is, in our temperate climate, it is the cheapest, most efficient way to sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
• There are different estimates out there, here’s one from PA Yeoman’s son…”With just a 1.6% increase in the organic matter of the wolrds already farmed soils, atmospheric levels of carbon would be returned to pre-industrial levels in 10 years.” (Alan Yeoman)
• Another from Peter Bane, a leading permaculturalist and publisher of Permaculture Activist, talking about Polyface Farm… “If US agriculture lands currently receiving 30 inches or more of rain yearly (basically the eastern US- about 800 million acres) were farmed like Polyface, 2.2 billion tons of carbon per year would be sequestered, which was equal (in 2007) to the total US atmospheric release of carbon.”
• This is about using what we already have (established pastures) to make a difference now.  Its an issue of management, not about vilifying cows or the flesh.
• Lots of resources out there.  One of the farmers mentioned is Abe Collins, a dairy farmer in Vermont, who incorporates Holistic Management, Broadacre Permaculture, and Keyline Principles.  He runs 70 mature/40 young; moves them from paddock to paddock four to ten times daily (top grazing).  This has an equivalency of 400 to 800 animals per acre.  Calves stay with mothers, one time daily milking, sells them directly to restaurants, and the kicker makes 8 inches of topsoil per year!

Here are some very important links that Karen has given us:  Down and Dirty—How carbon farming, the practice of putting CO2 back into the soil, can help fight global warming; Scientists Help Ranchers Wrangle Carbon Emissions—Soon ranchers might be able to use their land to offset carbon emissions; Holistic Management International—Help to improve your land and  your life; and Abe Collin’s, Co-founder of Carbon Farmers of America, talk:  The Carbon Ranch- Using Food and Stewardship to Build Soil and Fight Climate Change.

So, thank you Karen.  These are fantastic and important ideas and links (above) for us to dive into.

Now, how does all this relate to my opening paragraph’s question, why save the beautiful creature above from extinction?  The answer in a nut shell is, that if we look carefully at her ways and how she fits into the ecosystem, we can learn how to keep that ecosystem healthy.  A good example is what we talked about above.  When we acknowledge the reality that our present farming methods (factory farms, and monoculture plantation) are destroying the soils all around the earth and polluting the air we breathe, and furthermore that even the fruits of these farming methods, whether plant or animal, are vastly inferior to organically grown vegetables and fruits, and livestock that are raised and fed by migratory grazing strategies through variety of organic pastures, similiar to how the zebras, wildebeest (let’s not forget the lions) do it—grazing the top of the plants and fertilizing and building the soil along the way.  When we learn from nature and duplicate her ways, we not only have better meats and vegetables but we have a healthy ecosystem worldwide.  This is all something to get our energies into.  This is something we can do now.  If we get the farming right, we get the soil right, we get the air right, we get a bounty of real food right that can therapeutically nourish our bodies.  Nature knows, we need to work with her not trample her creatures.  Then we can all flourish.

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

Isn’t it time for a Spring cleaning of our body.  Many of you have your detox programs

for your patients in the Spring.  Our new product fit right in.  Here they are:  Energy Sustain, Cruciferous Sprouts Complex, Chlorella, Phyto Power, Ultra Minerals and Original Synbiotic Formula.

Dose:  Energy Sustain- one scoop (included in container), Cruciferous Sprouts Complex- 2 capsules, Chlorella- 4 tablets, Phyto Power- 2 capsules, Ultra Minerals- 2 capsules, and the Original Synbiotic Formula- 1 tsp.

Benefits:  Energy Sustain- The power of organically grown millet, quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat and chia, all especially processed to liberate their vital nutrients- high in protein, amino acids, complex carbs, fibers, vitamins and minerals.  Cruciferous Sprouts Complex- the power of greens, cruciferous greens for getting the liver efficiently functioning, antioxidant, anti-cancer power.  Organic Chlorella- helps clean the blood, the liver and kidney, a chelator of heavy metals.  The green of all greens.  Phyto Power- giving you intesive phytochemicals derived from wildcrafted4 species of blueberry, 3 species of rosehips, and 4 species of dandelion including the roots and flower.  The magnified power of flavonoids from blues, reds, yellows, and greens—polyphenol/phytochemical power.  Ultra Minerals- providing 72 minerals (negatively charged, nano sized, elements) derived from organic plant vegetate of the Mesozoic Era (that is really Deep Time my friends—65 million years ago).  Opening up metabolic pathways to function more fully towards the maximizing of our genetic potential.  The Original Synbiotic Formula provides lactic acid bacteria for our gut health and prebiotic fiber for their growth and our gut health.

The Last Quiz Answer:

The Great Migration is a site I think we all must see in our life time. The annual movement of zebras, wildebeest, eland, giraffe and other herbivores, of course, along with their shepards—the great preditors of Africa. Click on the above link. It shows you via an interactive map the route that these animals must take—1.5 million wildebeest, 500,000 Thompon’s gazelle, 200,000 zebra and 18,000 eland. Would that not be so awe inspiring to see?

Our local food co-op’s newsletter this week had an article entitled “Sustainable Stars,” and within this group they highlighted R.W. Knudsen Family and Santa Cruz Organic.  They both hail from a distribution facility in California that earned LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council in 2010. The 157,000 square-foot warehouse generates more than 90 percent of its energy needs via solar arrays, methane turbines and natural gas microturbines.  They have a solar water heater that provides more than half of the building’s hot water needs, skylights and translucent wall panels that reduce lighting and energy needs, and innovative water management.  More that 90 percent (283,000 pounds) of construction waste materials were recycled during construction, and materials used were made from recycled content.  Beyond production, the juice makers are committed to sustainable agriculture and juice free of added sugar, artificial colors and preservatives. I’ve always liked these two companies products.  Isn’t it nice to know that they truly walk the talk!

Dear Friends,

As we gander out onto the savannahs of Africa, to the migrating herds of zebras, contemplating on the question—What makes food therapeutic?—we know the answer for the zebra’s food comes from high quality and high quantity grasslands.  Unfortunately, for ruminants, one-half of planet earth’s grasslands have disappeared in the last 100 years.  Habitats are vanishing, ecosystems collapsing—leaving 1/4 of the world’s mammals on the threatened list for extinction.

It’s a bit more complex when considering what makes our food therapeutic because we are omnivores—more choices and more possible confusion.  For example, last week I mentioned the brand new study, just published, by a high profile team of Harvard scientists entitled, Red Meat Consumption and Mortility. The study concludes that eating red meat of any kind increases one’s mortality.  And, it was endorsed by Dean Ornish MD in his comments regarding this research, Holy Cow!  What’s Good for You is Good for our Planet.

Not everyone agrees with the conclusion drawn or the methodology used by the Harvard team.  One such individual is Deborah Gordon MD, who emailed me after reading last week’s Forward Thinking, stating that many of the science writers that she follows criticize the science behind the conclusions.  Dr. Gordon makes some important points in her blog article, Harvard Missed a Big Point about Meat.

Whether you subscribe to a pure paleo diet or something more vegetarian, both sides in this discussion agree that ORGANIC is a must when talking about food.  Dr. Ornish really brings it home in his article, Holy Cow, where he makes the following points:

• Animal agribusiness generates more greenhouse gases than all forms of transportation combined.
• It is also responsible for 37% of all the human-induced methane, which is 23 times more toxic to the ozone layer than carbon dioxide.
• As well as generating 65% of the human-related nitrous oxide, which has 296 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.
• Livestock use 30% of the earth’s entire land surface, mostly for permanent pasture but also including 33% of global arable land to produce feed for them.
• The clearing of forests to create new pasture is a major driver of deforestation.  70% of forests in the Amazon have been turned over to grazing.
• More than half of US grain and almost 40% of world grain is being fed to livestock rather than being consumed directly by humans.
• Producing 1kg of fresh beef requires about 13 kg of grain and 30 kg of forage.  This much grain and forage requires a total of 43,000 L of water.
• A quarter-pound burger with cheese takes 26 oz. of petroleum and leaves a 13 lb. carbon footprint.  This is equivalent to buring 7 lb. of goal.

I think we can agree that this is not a pretty picture.  But it’s even worse.  Here are some slides from my talk and upcoming book, the De-Evolution. Lets look at what is occurring on our planet.

De-forestation:  Above we talked about the fact that one-half of the grasslands are gone. But that’s just part of the vanishing ecosystem.  One-half of the earth’s wetlands have gone.  One-half of the tropical rain forests are gone—the very lungs of our earth.  One-third of the coral reefs have died—the rainforests of the oceans.  With such habitat destruction, so goes the loss of species, particularly the higher ones. One-quarter of mammals are on the threatened list, one-third of the amphibians are on the threatened list, most all of the mammals and large fish in the oceans will be gone within  50years.

CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations):  CAFOs are cauldrons of blood, antibiotics (70% of antibiotics produced in the US are used in the livestock industry) and grain (60% of US is fed to animals.  Feedlots produce 300 million tons of manure a year, and animal run off has caused a dead zone the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico.  A modest CAFO with 5,000 swine will deal with as much feces as a city of 20,000 people.  Except that it doesn’t have a sewage system.  The waste produced by CAFOs is solid, liquid and gas and it damages the land, water and perhaps most of all the atmosphere.  The livestock industry produces 18% of all CO2 equivalent emissions on the planet and contributes more to climate change than driving cars.

The mighty Mississippi River:  The Mississippi drains 40% of the United States. 40% of the continental US’s run-off comes down the mighty Mississippi and is dumped into the Gulf.  Millions of tons of fertilizer, human and animal waste, pesticides, herbicides, drugs and industrial chemicals spew constantly into the Gulf.  The second largest dead zone in the world is at the mouth of the Mississippi, expanding out into the Gulf.  As I said, it is the size of the State of New Jersey.  Fish, coral, crustaceans and marine mammals are dying while a blanket of algae, bacteria and jellyfish are growing unchecked.  Jellies are creatures with a 500 million year history and they survive well in a low oxygen milieu and their preferred foods is plankton (bacteria and algae).  We have altered the basic chemistry of the sea, life is moving back in the direction of a world that existed at the dawn of creation.

Dead Zones:  Oceanographers have sounded the alarm!  There are now over 405 Dead Zones in the oceans, and they are growing in size and numbers annually.  A few decades ago, its estuaries, sounds, bays inlets, coastal shores, kelp forests and thousands of cora reefs were teaming with a rich biodiversity of over 2 million species whose interwoven life benefited the global ecosystem.  We have thought our oceans to have an endless capacity to overcome our polluting ways.
Jellyfish: Jellyfish populations are growing because they can  The fish that used to compete with them for food have become scarce because of over fishing.  And the plankton they love to eat are growing explosively.  Fishermen around the world now haul in 450,000 tons of jellyfish per year.  It is called “fishing down the food web”.  We are now eating bait and moving on to jellyfish and plankton.  In California water three of the top five commercial catches are not even fish.  They are squid, crabs and sea urchins.  The population of the big fish has declined by 90% over the last 50 years.  The jellyfish are so thick off the Alaskan Peninsula that fishermen nicknamed it the Slime Bank.  Also proliferating is the giant nomurai found off Japan, a jelly fish the size of a washing machine.  A recent assessment by a Scripps Institute Oceanographer predicted that over fishing, acidification, habitat destruction, global warming and nutrient runoff from farming would conspire to drive oceans back toward a primordial state, dominated by the likes of algae and jellyfish.

We must globally face the truth—the mess of the earth’s ecosystems.  The starvation, sickness, pollution, ecosystem destruction, chronic sickness are all human caused.  We are the problem.  Going organic in our farming practices and eating patterns globally would set our world right.  There is really no other acceptable choice, and the consequences of not going for it are most likely the Sixth Mass Extinction.  We all, especially us in the holistic medical community, need to seriously get involved in being—can I say it— activists for what I term in my book “globally-local” organic farming. But more on that next week.

Sincerely yours,

Seann Bardell

BioImmersion.com

Clinical Note:

Consider the following as a regular part of your diet:

Energy Sustain, Ultra Minerals, Phyto Power and Number 7 Systemic Booster

Dose:  Energy Sustain- one scoop (included in container), Ultra Minerals- 2-4 capsules,  Phyto Power- 1-2 capsules, and Number 7 Systemic Booster- 1 tsp.

Benefits:  Energy Sustain- The power of organically grown millet, quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat and chia, all especially processed to liberate their vital nutrients- high in protein, amino acids, complex carbs, fibers, vitamins and minerals.  Ultra Minerals- providing 72 minerals (negatively charged, nano sized, elements) derived from organic plant vegetate of the Mesozoic Era (that is really Deep Time my friends—65 million years ago).  Phyto Power- giving you intensive phytochemicals derived from wildcrafted 4 species blueberry, 3 species of rosehips and 4 species of dandelion including the roots and flower.  The magnified power of flavonoids from blues, reds, yellows and greens—polyphenol/phytochemical power.  And last, but definately not least, No. 7 Systemic Booster provides additional phyto power with organic pineapple, tart cherry, pomegranate and cranberry, not to mention five of our pedigreed Bulgarian probiotic strains and supernatant, carnitine, carnisine, fructo-borate, vitamin D, folate, inulin, and nucleic acid derived from barley sprout that lower high blood suger levels.

Significant amounts of high amount foods turn our body’s genetic potential on.

The Last Quiz Answer:

This intelligent creature is the Wild Dog of Africa.  They live in packs of 6 to 20.  They are very sociable and there is little intimidation amongst the social hierachy. The entire pack is involved in the welfare of the pups – both males and females babysit the young and provide food for them.

They are truly a military operation when on a hunting mission.  If you’ve never seen a documentary of the wild dogs hunting, the Planet Earth Video has captured one of their hunts—it’s amazing.  They are a will oiled machine.

Tragically their numbers are dwindeling and they are down to about 5,000—another mammal biting the dust.

Today, President Obama takes his “all of the above” energy tour to Cushing, Oklahoma – the “pipeline crossroads of the world.” Standing in front of piles of TransCanada’s pipeline waiting to be put in the ground, he will issue a specific memorandum to federal agencies, not just to build, but to “expedite” the approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline from Cushing, Oklahoma, to the refineries and shipping ports in the Gulf Coast. Even as he rejected the full Keystone XL pipeline saying he had insufficient time to evaluate it, the President has always pushed for the southern portion to be completed. But now in issuing a memorandum to speed up that process, he’s signaling a willingness to backtrack on his initial (and minimal) condition of a full review for Keystone XL. Such a public appearance in Cushing to promote Keystone XL is a slap in the face to those of us who worked so hard to convince President Obama to reject Keystone XL in January. And it gives fuel to the cynics who said that that rejection was just an attempt to temporarily placate the environmental and young voters who believed Obama’s campaign rhetoric about the need for real action on climate and our fossil fuel dependence. If there was ever a clear moment to register our disappointment, this is it. Click here to register your disappointment