Nutrition is even more of a driver behind change and results than exercise because what you put in your mouth and in your mind FUELS everything else including your exercise =) For that Reason I’m including a link to my free resources: Healthy Grocery List | Vegan Cooking and Juicing Videos | Healthy Recipes updated Weekly.
Some Non Free Resources I personally use are this perfect Plant Based Whole Food Nutrition Shake I have at least one each and every day (the VEGAN Chocolate is my FAVE!), my friend Sheila Z PhD has a brilliant helpful book called “Anatomy of Healing and Wellness“, and if you’re truly genuinely interested in forming new Healthy habits you can grow with for the rest of your life and teach to your children ask me about the 21 day fix. Connect with me on My Facebook Page for support.
-Tom
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Don Tolman and I at Health Healing and Happiness 2016 Las Vegas, NV.
Notes I took from Don Tolman. None of this is meant to replace advice you’ve been given by your health care professionals. These are notes I’ve taken than I enjoy sharing freely. Take personal responsibility for anything you might try and be safe about it with your personal health care team…
Self care instead of health care. Learn to be your own doctor. Learn to be your own whole food pharmacist. Self Education.
We’ve got to get back to self education. Schools for thousands of years up until the late 1800s were never brick and mortar buildings where kids were forced to go sit in neat little rows and chant and memorize pre selected answers to stick in blank science exams to get a good grade.
Every child is born a natural scholastic genius. Scholar means one who observes out of interest. Children observe out of interest and it fires their imaginations and creativity which is everything. And then all of a sudden they go sit in a classroom and sit their and chant and repetitively memorize. Thats not how we learn. We learn when we are sincerely interested in something. 80% of kids lose their creative scholastic genius within 3 – 4 years of academic indoctrination of chant memorization curriculum they have no interest in.
WE have to get back to honoring creativity. When you do what you have a natural desire to do and you’re passion about it that is one of the most healing things you can do in your entire life that is to follow that innate inherent passion that gives you pleasure every day.
Most people are Crushed. Their spirit is dead. They went through the whole academic indoctrination graduating from the university of bullshit got a job worked it for thirty years and realized “I feel like Ive wasted my life”. Its never too late! Find your passion, shift and go forward.
Scholar means to observe with interest.
Academic means Trivia. Are you a master of memorizing trivia? Do you observe with sincere interest?
There are states right now that if your child receives a diagnosis of cancer and you don’t want to risk death of the child because of chemo and unnecessary surgies and other things, they can take your baby away from you and you’ll never see your baby again. Don tolman has helped families in this states move out of those states and into a state where that’s not forced upon them.
PharmaKIA means poison. Pharmaceutical means Poison Makers. You cant even patent a drug unless its poisonous and toxic to the human body and creates side affects so that you can be given more drugs. The “Problem” with Plant based whole foods as medicine that Hippocrates and doctors taught are your medicine clear up til the late 1800s pharmaKIA came, killed a LOT of people, took over, and created the health care, medical, and pharmaceutical industry. None of this is to offend. I know this is hard to hear or digest. My hope is it either confirms what you already know or gives you something simple and logical and something you can find a way to begin applying in your own life.
You’re not even allowed in universities to teach the power of the human body, the autogenics healing system, to self heal.
IF you’re in a traumatic accident with compound fractures and in hideous pain then take their patented plants that they modify and add poisons to and some pain killing then fine take it but don’t take it for more than a week because pain killers slow down the healing process and even paralyze the intestines that gets rid of the peristaltic action.
Don tolman has been able to help over 800 medical doctors leave their careers as medical doctors and help people heal for real.
Ever since world war to they’ve been killing doctors who are perceived as a thread. In the last few months or so the killing has been happening far more rapidly. 8 of them has been don tolmans best friends. It doesn’t show up in the media news in the united states. You have to be in other countries but now you can go on the internet.
dr mitchell gaynor leading oncologist cancer dr in the united states. Came out of cornell. Came to dons three day event, shifted and went whole foods, vibrational sounds, got into cornell and john hopkins and was shot and killed in his own backyard. Hes no longer a threat. This is nothing new these kind of killings has been going on for a very long time.
pharmakia means poison. That’s why medical doctors can get a license to PRACTICE on you. They tell you they are practicing on you. When you go to a drs office for the first time you have to sign a legal document in legal terms that you promise to be PATIENT. Patient with what? With the HARM or DEATH to you or your loved ones. They can Legally diagnose you now. Nosis means knowledge. Dia means split divided unknown. In course of law in the library of congress diagnosis is literally defined as we do not know, we are guessing, and we told you so. If you’re ignorant at the terms that they use then your ignorance is legal consent for them to go ahead and practice on you as long as you sign and take full responsibility for any pharmaceutical drugs, surgeries, radiation they do to you. You came to us, you wanted it, sign here.. For the last three generations of people its just been slammed on to the people through academic indoctrination at school, in the media, and so they are such believers.
2 statements from Don…
Statement number one – 9 out of 10 people who go to the drs office do not have a chronic disease condition. They have a simple functional disorder that would clear itself completely in 3 – 7 days if they did absolutely nothing. Did you hear that? Simple functional dis orders that are dis comfort that if they got rid of dis comfort and call it dis ease.. but they don’t tell you what discomfort or disease is.
Statement number two – the one out of 10 who go to the doctor that actually has a chronic disease condition 99% of the time have that disease because of the side affects that the toxic poisonous drugs that were put on them when they went to the dr in the first place for the simple functional disease.
They CREATED the disease. A Healthy nation means a BANKRUPT pharmaceutical medical industry. They created it. They know the poisons. They’ve tested on people, on monkeys, they put it on soda pops, they put it into packaged foods, they put it into animals by injecting them and they promote murdering animals, slicing them up, eating their dead bodies its so healthy that’s where you get your protein! if you don’t eat dead animals where are you going to get your protein? What a scam! the word protein comes from proteos which means first source. There is only one first source of proteins.. Plants! The only healthy proteins is plants. Every plant on earth has all two hundred thousand identifiable proteins in different concentrations. Grass has the highest usable protein for muscle strength than any other protein on earth.
We need to find out whats going on. Who is funding this dangerous information? what resources are available? what are they after?
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If it looks like the heart and has four chambers, just like the heart has four chambers, then its good for the heart. Its so interesting.. The tomato, you cut it, it has four chambers, the top of it has a five pointed leaf, and we stand in a five pointed star, all of the fruits botanically come from the pattern of a five pointed star and that’s why they were considered to be the healthiest most powerful foods on the face of the earth. The word FRUIT in the Hebraic and Aramaic language was boaz which means to add splendor and life. Joaquin is vegetable and means to strengthen. Fruits and vegetables were your medicines. They call some fruits, nuts, if they are the fruit of the nut trees. Seeds were the fruit of the grasses. Good for the heart.
Anything that comes in a head is good for your head. Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts comes in a head, they are some of the best foods for the brain and clearing brain cancerous tumors.
Look at celery! Celery looks like a bone, snaps like a bone, and now they know for a fact its absolute bone food. It targets the bones. It has 21% plant sodium. Your bones have to store at all times a minimum of 21% sodium. If you’re on a low salt diet thanks to the PHRMA industry that wanted salt out of peoples lives, salt was one of the most healing foods of the ancient world. Now researches are waking up and realizing the ancient wisdoms were right. Salt is the electrolyte of all ten thousand trillion cells that construct your body. They have to have salt. If you don’t have enough salt you’re going to have weak bones and be told you have to have joint replacement. Eat plant foods that look like a bone, bok choy, cellary, and have enough mineral salt in your diet but not too much… They wanted salt out of peoples diet so they could introduce penisulin and anti biotics. If you have enough salt you will not have inflammation in the body. Salt clears it.
Potatoes are a beautiful healing food. Don’t peal them! Get the minerals right beneath the skin. You can bake them, boil them, whatever you want. The particles of the potato are not picked up by the bloodstream as nutrition. They go all the way through the circulatory system to the very end to the tiniest little tubes called the lymphatic stream, goes into there, goes through the body, and those particles bump up against metabolic waste, heavy metals, other chemical poisons in the body swells up like a sponge and captures it then takes it to the bowls and kicks it out. Don has had people in hospitals in other countries and told they were going to have their lungs operated on. Don had them eat red skin potatoes and you need to eat one for each lung and do it every day. Squeeze fresh lemon juice on it and put a good nature made salt on it. Not phrma salt companies that adds anti caking and all of that crap. Eat these potatoes like this and do it every day. Every one of those people in the hospitals within 4 – 6 months are out of the hospitals and their lungs are just fine without medical treatment or surgeries. IF you know of someone who has been a smoker their whole life and wants to quit and clean their lungs this is one of the best things they can do.
Look at the avocado. The avocado look like the womb and the cervix of a female. For males eating avocado helps with sperm volume and sperm count. For women eating avocado helps with getting pregnant. That is a threat to the phrma industry. The avocado has a feminine signature. it even has one swollen seed in it just like a woman who is pregnant. Guess what? It takes 9 months to grow an avocado. IF a female will eat 3 to 4 avocados a week after pregnancy the weight she gained while pregnancy will come off. In ancient wisdom every food has a masculine or feminine signature patterns and as human we are both female and male so all of these foods are good for both male and female.
Citrus you can cut it, and look at it, and it looks just like the tissue of the mammary glands and it helps to shrink breast lumps and breast tumors. They start to clog and swell. They call it breast cancer now which is a total scam. You have to have your tits cut off and blah blah blah blah blah. Doctors are now coming around. Their training was wrong. You can look more into that.
Bananas and figs are masculine signature foods. You can guess why!
Even asparagus produces the volume of sperm to a HUGE load. That’s why the porn industry started to have their stars eat asparagus about 24 stalks a day for one week prior to the filming, and, it worked.
ONIONS! ON means brightest light. Ion is the ions of the brightest light. That’s why in ancient wisdom they ate onions. When you slice an onion its a circle within a circle within a circle etc.. onions target the functional capacities of health and healing of every cell in your body. It’s amazing what these foods can do as medicines.
Apples! You slice an apple inside you’re going to see a perfect 5 pointed start. An apple a day keeps the doctor away in ancient wisdom, and it’s true.
Cosmos which means beautiful woman and galaxy means mothers milk and gaya means mothers earth. The entire cosmos expands and contracts over time. Galaxies, solar systems in their orbits, expand and contract. Even our earth goes into an elliptical orbit around the sound and then it’s spherical. We are a micro cosm of the macro cosm. The atmosphere, the oceans, expand and contract. Our bodies are based on that same electromagnetic frequency. Your heart, lungs, intestines, every organ and anotamonical structure and every cell in your body expands and contracts.
There is only ONE human disease and only two causes. You can go online and look up how many human diseases are there. Depending on the medical website you go to they will tell you 16,000 to 27,000 diseases. Then they all admit there are 17,000 rare diseases. If you’re ever diagnosed with a RARE disease just hold on to your wallet and run. You’ll be just fine. They are trying to use you as a guinea pig and wanting to test drugs and procedures on you.
Don has doctors and friends who will tell you thats the absolute truth.
The ancients taught there is only one disease. CHAOS at the atomic level which creates chaos at the molecular level which creates chaos at the cellular level and when enough cells are in chaos you feel it as a discomfort, or DisEASE. There are only two causes of atomic, molecular, and celluar chaos. Number 1, you’re toxic. Number 2, you’re deficient. At can be either or. For most people who live in developed countries where packaged foods and all the other crap is being done they are toxic and they are deficient. The way that you get rid of that toxicity and deficiency is to clean you out and that’s what plant fibers and plant nutritional components do. Don has been able to help over 75 people scheduled for liver transplants who are told their livers have lost functioning and was dead. They drink 1 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice every single day, and because the liver through cellular mitosis replaces itself every 90 days, every one of those people had a 100% functional liver at the end of 90 days. This is the information we’ve got to follow. You can mix the juice in water you can put it in other juices you can do whatever you like.
Walnuts have a left and right hemisphere. They are on top of each other so its like you have the cerebrums and cerebellums. You look at a walnut its just like the brain and their shell is just like the cranial cap. You look at the surface of it and it looks like the neocortex on the surface of the brain with the left and right hemispheres and now they know that’s’ what walnuts do, they target brain function. And walnut oil, whether you get the expeller oil or you eat the whole walnuts, clears out the plaque that causes senial dementia and memory loss.
Almonds look like a part of the brain called amigdala. If you look up the meaning of amigdala it means almond. It targets the function of that part of the brain.
This is not a sales pitch this is an invitation to get the wisdom of the ancients.
Grapefruit! On all blood thinner medications from the Phrmaceuitical industry they will say do not eat grapeful. Warning, do not eat grapefruit. Wanna know why? Because grapefruit thins the blood better than drugs and it doesn’t cause any side effects. It’s true!
Get off of the thyroxine and thyroid medicine don’t fall for the crap that you’re hyper and hypo. Eat mushrooms. They have the signature of the thyroid, it gets rid of all the problems, we even have four people that had their thyroids surgically removed after being on thyroid medicine for years. They ate, they stopped the medicine, even without a thyroid, they ate one cup of mushrooms, you can eat them raw, sauteed, soup, however you want it, they did that, all four of these people, these were all in australia, within 9 – 14 months the thyroid had grown back and had 100% functional capacity. One lady was so scared because her dr said there is something wrong with your thyroids they were never suppose to grow back well have to take it out again, and she fell for that.
Update: new notes I took from Don Tolman 1 year later at Health Healing Happiness 2017.
Put Mushrooms under the sun for an hour and it will move more vitamin D than anything.
Another note I took from Don Tolman in one on one conversation before he spoke to us from stage. He didn’t talk about this on stage so this is a neat “backstage behind the scenes” nugget I have =) Combine raw apples and oranges. This combination improves absorption from these fruits in a way that helps fight sadness and bring about more feelings of joy and happiness. In fact, enjoy the video I took right after talking with Don =)
-Tom
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Are you FOR or AGAINST making $ as a Result from people Improving their Health?
PhRMA makes half a TRILLION per Year managing sickness and curing nothing. Lots of BIG BUSINESS profits by poisoning people and the planet.
We NEED more GOOD people to make LOTS of $ as a result of adding a BENEFIT to others.
Some of you will need to BREAK your negative energy you hold toward money first. Holding your negative energy toward money paves the way for Criminals to control the money supply at your families expense.
Lazy people do not want to hear the truth about Lifestyle and their are more than plenty of companies aggressively exploiting and profiting from them for it.
I could pick ANY business as my vehicle to make $ as a result of adding a benefit to others around me.
This one company tells the truth that LAZY people do not want to hear about life style while other companies pander to laziness and won’t tell the truth.
I started a Private Facebook Group for Teaching and Showing others how to make extra $ from spreading health and quashing sickness. This typically goes over big with people who Resonate with thinking Differently than most people, love to learn, and have an Exceptional work ethic for 20 minutes or more a day so it doesn’t interfere with anything else going on with life.
If you’re interested Private Message me on my Facebook.
If you have no idea what you’re doing, have zero time for this, but Open minded and LOVE thinking differently than how most people think then this could be PERFECT for you.
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Reading the Ingredients in “Manwich”.. Ya know, the sloppy Joe King?
Many ingredients in it are Artificial.. Artificial ingredients Lowers Testosterone Production in men…
Testosterone Production is what makes men, men…
The ingredients in “MANwich” makes men, less like men…
How does BIG FOOD get away with manipulating their consumers to give them their cash in exchange for sickness?
Three words…
Willful Consumer Ignorance…
Erectile Dysfunction is Needless BIG Business today in a nation full of Willful Consumer Ignorance…
Men over 25 have a hard time getting “Hard” and their spouses are left thoroughly unsatisfied as they routinely let younger Men “Conquer” them while their Testosterone production is still high…
Ya know what’s sadly common in the willfully ignorant population? Those who are willfully ignorant are also in the business of protecting their individual egos from getting hurt than they are open to truth and correction.
It goes back to a VERY old saying…
The prideful are town down while the humble are lifted up…
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The whistle blowing on corruption I’m referring to is more so on willfully ignorant people content with staying willfully ignorant.
– Tom
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FOOD MANUFACTURERS HAVE MANIPULATED YOUR BRAIN away from nature to Manipulate you personally to keep giving them more of your money so they can continue to manipulate and poison you and your family.
Whatcha gonna do about it? =)
If you’re open to making a difference hear me out..
Your amazing brain can be re wired BACK to nature so unhealthy food tastes like the poisonous garbage that it is and foods that are Healing for you tastes like the GIFT that it is that mother nature has gifted to you..
Cool hey?
This is where really good cleanses and detoxes are so friggen Valuable toward saving someones life and BRAIN from being further manipulated by deceptive and corrupt Food, Chemical, and PhRMA Corporations…
A really good cleanse and detox can bring you back to nature and LOVING Natural organic HEALING foods for you and your family in as little as a few weeks..
Some people experience that shift back to nature in just a few days..
I have two of them. I personally did a 21 cleanse and detox with my mom. It changed everything.
My mom healed from neuropathology, high blood pressure, incontinence, came off most of her dozen medications, stopped waking up in the mornings in pain from inflammation, craved bad food less, craved good food more, more clarity, more energy…
I get to keep my mom around longer but even better now because of the above mentioned improvements =)
I was already super fit and still noticed more clarity, improved skin, I enjoy raw veggies with zero sauces or doctoring up more than ever now..
The Cleanse and detox was $305 and we saved multiplication times that much in doctor visits, prescription drugs, Bad Food purchases… I no longer crave Bad Food =)
I no longer crave giving people money to poison me…
My friend Andrea I inspired to do the same Cleanse and detox my mom and I did and from her experiences in doing other cleanses she saved thousands of dollars after the $305 for this one and many hours of her time.
This specific Cleanse and Detox is completely wonderful.
Ya wanna rid the world of Toxic food designed to Manipulate your brain into giving people money to poison you and your family?
It aint gonna happen with petitions and protests…
All companies follow the money…
Even companies that aren’t motivated by money need money to stay in business or they go out of business..
Organic farmers arent in it for the money they get zero subsidies from the government and as a result sell less of their product. They are in it to help you heal…
Non organic farmers get as much as 40% of their income subsidized by the government which results in cheaper food at the grocery store at the expense of your health.
Non organic farmers are poisonous snakes killing you and your kids for profits…
Which farmer ya wanna reward with your food purchases?
The one poisoning you for profit or the one it to nurture you and help you live and flourish?
What do you think creates the quality of our food supply?
It’s how YOU spend your money..
Never mind what you say you want..
Petitions and protests make you look silly.
Is how you spend your money on food lined up with what comes out of your mouth?
Boycott toxic food…
Boycott companies who deliberately manipulate you by biologically re wiring your brain to make you give them more of your money in exchange for poisoning you and your family…
That’s the only way they disappear..
That’s the only way the landscape of our food supply changes from a toxic manipulating one to a healthy and healing one..
If you’re interested in the cleanse and detox program we are doing let me know. Ill send you a video about it and if it looks good and ya wanna do it I can connect you my private facebook group for endless support and problem solving so ya get healthy and Thrive.
Let’s make Organic Farmers rich instead of the farmers and Chemical Companies poisoning us to death…
Right?!
– Tom
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I got to say this to one of my friends who helped someone reduce their extreme blood sugar levels by 80 something points in a few days and now he can be more physically active without being in Pain.
I totally hear you when you say All the Income I’ve created is from my personal involvement and that’s why I can be so Free…
It’s just not true…
Maybe 5%, if that, of my income is coming from my personal involvement…
The rest comes from others I’ve equipped to create their own incomes that EVERY dollar is linked to the health, the healing, and the Freedom of other people.
What a concept hey?
I wish PhRMA and others would get the memo that they don’t need to Profit from Managing sickness and Healing Nothing.
Even more so…
My AIM is to inspire more GOOD people with Messages of Healing to Get over their negative energy toward creating PILES and PILES of money..
Now we can collectively Take More of the Money Supply Away From the Criminals of the world who are using money to pollute the world…
WE will use money as a resource to HEAL the world.
Doesn’t that sound like fun??
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– Tom
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I had no idea if she’d want to do this or not but I HONORED her as a free thinking person and Invited her so she could decide for herself…
Look BEYOND her impressive physical change..
Do you see An Emotional change?
A confidence change?
Do you realize her entire LIFE has been revolutionized on every level possible?
Do realize she can be there more for her family?
Do you know she has a stronger immune system and less prone to getting sick now?
I want you to realize if you are a home business owner with a product that helps people improve their lives that YOU can connect anyone who wishes to that product to change their life…
INVITE everyone..
Never think for anyone..
Never let your personal opinion of price, effort, or time commitment get in the way of someone elses success.
Keep those opinions to yourself and HONOR EVERYONE as Free Thinking people who can decide if your deal is a fit for them.
And as an income opportunity I want you to know that every dollar you generate is a result of positive impact you’ve had on other people.
This isn’t a Job or other type of Pyramid scheme that entitles you to an income just because you sold your time for it. You have to add value to peoples lives.
IF you want to be a MILLIONAIRE just help enough people that can help enough people that can help enough people.
Its a win-win for everyone on a very high level.
Check this out… and read it twice.. say it out loud.. RESONATE with this message….
When WE create enough MILLIONAIRES with a product like we have we will END ALL trends of obesity, Chronic Disease, and Chronic Debt.
THATs RICH.
This is no hobby it’s a LIFE Change…
Whose in?..
“I think if someone doesn’t truly love themselves, no matter what their body looks like, they will always compare themselves to someone else and never be happy“ – Catherine Russo
– Tom
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The lady in the picture doesn’t spend her time how most people spend their time =)
TYPICAL ACHES AND PAINS DON’T COME WITH AGE (that Lie is perpetuated by big PhRMA so they can manipulate you into giving them your Cash along with your health)…
Age exposes you for daily slight error in judgements in how you treat your mind, body, and spirit.
If you Learn from your mistakes you can create a whole different future than your past. Age can Reward you and give you YOUTH as you get older.
You can draw a line in the sand anytime you wish =)
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When you enjoy Fast Food you’ve successfully allowed them to biologically MANIPULATE YOUR BRAIN and Taste Palate. When I learned they actually put certain GMOS in their ‘foods’ to biologically manipulate us, (HUGE red flag for me isn’t it for you?!!?) I made it my mission that everyone knows about it. Is it a RED FLAG for you too that they’ve manipulated you to get rich by making you Poor and Sick? Is a RED FLAG they focus the bulk of their marketing on Children?!!?
I know that stuff tastes really good but that’s only because you’ve allowed them to successfully Sell You on manipulation, on a dangerous biological level, to CRAVE what they are selling you so you give them more and more of your families money.
What THEY don’t want you to know is you can recalibrate your brain and taste palate back to nature and when that happens their fake foods actually taste like the dangerous Threat to your family in every way possible that it is. When you become a free thinking person with some gumption you’ll not want to make people rich who are killing you and your kids anymore. You’ll start becoming richer instead of poorer in every way possible.
They charge you obscenely over priced sums of money for low grade food-like food that will rob you and your kids of your health, wealth, personal freedom, and you VOTE FOR it with every dollar you give them in exchange for what you’ve allowed them to SELL YOU on.
If you’re NOT ok with some in the ‘elite’ getting rich off of selling you on being sick and poor then DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND TODAY, not tomorrow, and start a revolution that begins right in your own home. Here is a great place to start with a grocery list that’s in alignment with getting richer instead of poorer in every way possible https://tombirkenmeyer.com/get-healthy/healthy-grocery-list/ Investing in the Wellness of your family is the best investment you could make. You know it’s true. Sometimes you, and myself, just need to be reminded again.
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How’s THIS for a total Earthquake in your brain? You can use CANCER to make you Weaker or Stronger much like you can use Debt to make you Richer or Poorer. Stay with me for a minute..
Build up your immune system to kill the cancer organically. Now you’ve killed the cancer and you’re less vulnerable to ever getting cancer, or any disease ever again, because you’re immune system is stronger from how you responded to getting a cancer diagnosis. This makes sense to me!!!!
Tragically this what most people do when they get the Cancer Diagnosis. Most people weaken their immune system to kill the cancer with chemo and radiation. If you’re lucky enough to go into remission you go into it with a weaker immune system than before, making you even more vulnerable to getting the Cancer again a second time as most people do who go into remission from Medical Treatment. Does this make sense to you out there? This makes NO SENSE whatsoever to me but this is what most people do and needlessly suffer and die. Some end up with an immune system so WEAK from the Medical Treatment that they go on to die of a common cold. But oh boy they survived cancer! Survived cancer only to go on to die of a cold?!?! And people still defend chemo and radiation because at least the cancer was destroyed? Are you kidding me?!?!
By the way I’m by no means giving you advice. Make up your own mind on what to do when you or a loved one gets the cancer diagnosis. My hope is I’ve caused you to at least think for yourself, do your own research, and be your own advocate instead of blindly following the advice of your doctor who has no clue about building up an immune system, and for the love of your self and your loved ones don’t blindly follow some d00d on the internet either. I’m an advocate for YOU to become a free thinking person with ego checked at the door so you can live better and help other people live better too.
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I had all these great sunflower seeds that I didn’t know what to do with, so, I googled “sunflower vegan cheese recipes” to find some usefulness and I was not disappointed! It was LOVE at first taste..
After doing this episode I probably still have enough sunflower seeds for at least 4 more batches. That’s a good thing now that I know exactly what to do with sunflower seeds to make an AMAZING Vegan Cheese spread out of them. Penniless Parenting is the source of this delectable Healthy treat.
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If you’d like to add to what you’re already doing, like we are, replace one meal a day with our Dense Nutrition Vegan Meal Shake in addition to eating AMAZING the rest of your day. I personally never get sick anymore even when I’m around a bunch of sick and very contagious people. I use to get violently ill at least 3 or 4 times per year with the change of seasons. The only thing I changed is my life style. If you’d like some support in our Private Secret Facebook Group reach out to me Privately over Facebook.
– Tom
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I just made this one up totally impromptu style for my mom who was raised on the standard meat and potatoes American diet and she LOVED this Vegan dish! Truth be told I LOVED it too. Vegans and omnivores alike can enjoy this tasty Vegan dish.
Good For 2 Servings
For Vegetable Medley:
– 2 Red Bell Peppers, matchstick sliced.
-1 Green Bell Peppers, matchstick sliced.
– 8 stalks of Asparagus, cut into 1 inch lengths.
– 2 Whole Carrots, roll cut.
– Small handful of Fresh Basil Leaves
– Pink Himalayan Salt.
– 1 – 2 tbsp Grapeseed Oil, first cold pressed extra virgin.
For the Side of Mushrooms:
– Sliced Portabellas, or mushroom of choice.
– 1/3rd cup Tahini Sauce.
– a few drops of Liquid Smoke to Taste
For the vegetable medley just saute the carrots for about 5 – 7 minutes in grapeseed oil in a medium sauce pan, throw everything else in the sauce pan with the sauteed carrots stirring every other minute or so for the next 7 – 10 minutes, add pink himalayan salt to taste, and maybe 1 – 2 tsp of your favorite sweet red wine.
For the side of mushrooms I only sauteed the mushrooms in another medium sauce pan for about 3 minutes in some grapeseed oil, then added the Tahini sauce, liquid smoke next, and finally a few drops of liquid smoke to taste and lowed heat to the low setting on my burner for about the next 5 minutes.
Serve and enjoy!
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If you’d like to add to what you’re already doing, like we are, replace one meal a day with our Dense Nutrition Vegan Meal Shake in addition to eating AMAZING the rest of your day. I personally never get sick anymore even when I’m around a bunch of sick and very contagious people. I use to get violently ill at least 3 or 4 times per year with the change of seasons. The only thing I changed is my life style. If you’d like some support in our Private Secret Facebook Group reach out to me Privately over Facebook.
– Tom
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Watch the two videos below to see “how”, and, to learn about the benefits for each of the ingredients.
Take personal responsibility for your Health and Wealth.
Juicing for Cold and Flu Killer
– Kale
– Lemon
– Ginger
– Asian Cucumber
– Pineapple
– Beat Greens
– Cayenne Pepper
– Garlic Cloves
Stove Top for Flu and Cold Killer
– 1 Heaping tbsp Raw unfiltered Honey preferably Local
– 1 tsp Turmeric
– 1 knuckle, or about 1 inch, of fresh grated Ginger Root
– Dash or two of cayenne pepper powder
– Juice of 1 1/2 Lemons
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If you’d like to add to what you’re already doing, like we are, replace one meal a day with our Dense Nutrition Vegan Meal Shake in addition to eating AMAZING the rest of your day. I personally never get sick anymore even when I’m around a bunch of sick and very contagious people. I use to get violently ill at least 3 or 4 times per year with the change of seasons. The only thing I changed is my life style. If you’d like some support in our Private Secret Facebook Group reach out to me Privately over Facebook.
– Tom
p.s. A BIG THANK YOU to Andrea Noble for providing the recipes and information behind the health benefits.
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The majority of people who lose weight do it at the expense of their health simply from a lack of education. I hope to provide you that little bit of education to help you along your journey. Use this information I’m sharing with you to do your own research so you can come to your own conclusion. I’m not a nutrition expert. I’m a lay person like most of you are. I just simply pay attention and share when I come across something helpful. A really great health shake, in my opinion, should increase your health and fight disease. I enjoy replacing one meal a day with Shakeology as my Nutrition Shake of choice. I find it gives me more energy, I recover from my workouts more quickly, my blood panels are perfect, helps me maintain a healthy weight, and it’s helped lots of my friends lose weight and reverse lots of diseases to come off of many expensive medications with their doctors approval. In the spirit of Full Disclosure I want you to know that I sell Shakeology as an Independent Representative. I’ve witnessed many shakes destroy peoples health on the promise of weight loss. I don’t believe in bashing other brands and I don’t want you to feel like I’m only attempting to make a sale but I also want you to get Healthy as you achieve your health or fitness goals. Please use this for your own research.
Soy Lecithin: Comes from sludge left after crude soy oil goes through a “degumming” process. It is a waste product containing solvents and pesticides and has a consistency ranging from a gummy fluid to a plastic solid.
Sucralose: Artificial sweetener commonly packaged as “Splenda”. Sucralose is made by chemically altering the structure of sugar molecules by adding chlorine atoms in place of hydroxyl groups. Sucralose is therefore chlorinated sugar; a chlorocarbon. Chlorocarbons are poisonous.
Soy Protein Isolate: Contains chemicals that are associated with the development of Alzheimer’s and cancer. Also contains phytoestrogens which have been shown to cause rapid growth of breast cancer cells.
Mono-diglycerides: Basically another name for hydrogenated oil*.
*Hydrogenated oil is trans fat, and it’s a major risk for heart disease. In Denmark, legislation removing “hydrogenated vegetable oil” from the food chain was introduced in June 2003. Since then, the rate of heart disease among Danes has dropped by a staggering 40 percent.
Phytoestrogens consumed DAILY cause thyroid problems, estrogen imbalances & can stimulate breast cancer cells even in men.
Sucralose is chlorinated hydrocarbon and every bit of that in the world is toxic & carcinogenic. Anyone that has any kind of chemistry background will tell you that.
There is a hidden MSG that kills brain cells.
There is NO FOOD shakes with the above listed ingredients, only chemically created vitamins and minerals. If your shake has these ingredients it’s a chemical, toxic shake. Cigarettes & alcohol come with a warning label. Shakes containing these ingredients should have warning labels too, but, they don’t. So you need to be educated.
If a nutrition shake or weight loss shake is really truly healthy they are going to flaunt their ingredient lists like crazy. When you’re looking at a shake to buy see if you can find the ingredients list. A lot of shakes only offer a nutrition label with their list of vitamins, carbs, proteins, sugars, and fat count. The nutrition label is meaningless without a full disclosure ingredients listing. Where is it? What are they hiding?? If they don’t have it consider that an enormous red flag and look for something else. I’m more than happy to be able to give you a FULL Disclosure of the actual ingredients in the Nutrition Shake that I replace one meal every day with. Click the following link and scroll down til you see the Ingredients and Nutritional Information ~ Shakeology
A really great nutrition shake can be extremely powerful in helping you achieve your health and fitness goals and fight disease. However, it will never be enough. Get the most out of your over all daily nutrition by eating in a way that allows your body and mind to function properly and at it’s very best. Check out my Healthy Grocery List for more ideas of what to put into your shopping cart next time you’re at the grocery store. This has helped a lot of people save money, eat better, and feel better already, maybe it can help you too. Click here for my Healthy Grocery List.
We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.
I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labelled “opinion makers.” Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.
The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.
It Is Not Working!
These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.
The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.
Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before.
Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.
Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.
Inflammation is not complicated — it is quite simply your body’s natural defence to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process,a condition occurs called chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.
What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well, smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully.
The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.
Let me repeat that: The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine.
What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.
Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. you kept this up several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.
Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.
While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.
How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation to make you sick?
Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into each cell where it is stored for energy. If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works.
When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.
What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall. This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation. When you spike your blood sugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like taking sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.
While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator — inflammation in their arteries.
Let’s get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only contains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean. Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life. While omega-6’s are essential -they are part of every cell membrane controlling what goes in and out of the cell — they must be in the correct balance with omega-3’s.
If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membrane produces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation.
Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of these two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6. That’s a tremendous amount of cytokines causing inflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1 ratio would be optimal and healthy.
To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused by having high blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the inflammatory process continues unabated.
There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils.
There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation- causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them.
One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef.
Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labelled polyunsaturated. Forget the “science” that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.
The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation. Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.
What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet.
LATEST CANCER INFORMATION
from Johns HopkinsAFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY …1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.
3. When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to STARVE the cancer cells by not feeding it with foods it needs to multiple.
What cancer cells feed on:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Note: Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells will starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes t o nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells.
To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water–best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines will become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body’s killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body’s own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor.
Anger, unforgiving and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
My buddy Blake was told he’d have to start taking medications for his health issues. Blake made some changes and with his DRs approval he never has to take any medications now. Cool hey? I’m just going to copy and paste Blakes own words. If you or someone you know wants a fair shot at being medication free with Dr approval MESSAGE ME. In Blakes words:
“I’ve never really had a weight problem; instead, due to poor genes, and poor choices, I had a “blood” problem. Even though I’ve always eaten pretty well and worked out regularly, at a Dr.’s visit back in March 2012, I got the grand ol’ news that my triglycerides were almost double what they should be, and my cholesterol numbers were bad in three categories. Naturally, my doctor insisted putting me on medication. But I begged her to give me six months to change things.
So I ate a little better, worked out a little more, and got retested. My results improved, but weren’t good enough. In my last ditch effort to stay off meds, I told my doctor about Beachbody’s Ultimate Reset program and made her a deal: “Give me 21 days on Ultimate Reset, and if the lab tests aren’t exactly where you want them to be, I’ll start popping pills. No questions asked.” Reluctantly, she agreed.
About a month later, my doctor called with my post Ultimate Reset blood work results and was blown away. And I have to say, so was I. My cholesterol dropped 37 points, triglycerides dropped 187 points (which is HUGE!), and I lost almost 11 pounds. All in just 21 days.
I’m so incredibly thankful for the Ultimate Reset. It literally saved me from having to take drugs—something I never, ever, ever want to have to take.”
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My dad had SEVERE COPD and sleep apnea and almost died from it. My dad went in for a sleep study before I got him on this Health shake and before getting fixed with an appropriate cpap machine. They found he woke from sleep an average of once every 50 seconds. He virtually never got any meaningful sleep.
The COPD nearly killed him because it would inflame in his lungs with bronchitis with only had one third of his lungs left. We literally almost lost him in the Emergency Room from his very last bronchitis episode.
Immediately after that I got my dad on this Health Shake and ever since then he has not experienced one single bout of pneumonia or bronchitis.
The oxygen is also back in his blood and great lively color back to his face instead of pale from bad blood. His doctor tells us he has no right to expect to be alive today or to be doing as well as he is doing. That was a couple years ago now. And most recently my dad had me take down the Ramps to the house because he no longer needs his scooter! BAM!!!!!!!!!
No Matter how DARK it may get for you, if you or someone you LOVE is still alive, it’s NOT too late no matter what anyone tries to sell you on. Skip them. Get sold on getting out of the darkness friend!
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Alyssa Russells family went from broke to a 6-figure income and impacted her life. Too often parents tell their children to sit down and be quiet. Not so for the Russells! the Russells were broke in every way possible – relationships, physically and financially. They were on the verge of divorce because of constantly fighting over finances. Mom was stressed out working from home, dad was gone all the time at work and Alyssa cried at night to be successful to be able to take care of her parents. Since plugging in the whole family has repaired relationships. Alyssa started 2 businesses that have made thousands of dollars and flew herself all over the country to get to First Steps to Success. Her parents have paid off over $34,000 in debt, now make over 6-figures and are successful in EVERY area of their life.
Alyssa did not wait for a hand out, but made things happen (including making more money than some adults)! She is one of a growing group of young teens and youths who have become prime examples of fruit of this proven training.
If these kids are grabbing this training and making money, there is no excuse for you. GROW from where you’ve been planted where ever that happens to be
How are you doing? As always, I thought I would share what week 2 on Shakeology was like. Week two is during PMS week. PMS has been a LOT easier this week.
Normally, I would have reeeely bad body swelling, cramps, explosive pain in the ovarian cysts, irritability, depression and joint/back pain. Oh, and bad migraines.
So far, all I have experienced during PMS week was a little bit of anxiety.
I have been able to think very clearly. Ok, except for the morning after that night that hubby kept me up talking drunk in his sleep. My back is usually fine with Shakeology, but again, I have so much energy that I forget I’m not superwoman yet and last weekend I strained my joints digging that garden bed. I can’t help but think if it were not for Shakeology that I would have been so sore that I could not have made it to work Monday.
I have had no major arguments with the spouse this PMS week. Since I can think clearly, it is much easier to communicate without freaking out or going off. Also, it is easier to shrug it off when he does dumbass things. haha.
No small towns have burned this week (lol).
Although, I am waiting for the red deluge to hit me, I am not having any heart palpitations nor major mental delusions of any kind.
Oh and the biggest thing? I have absolutely no desire to drink alcohol. I tried a beer on Sunday. There was no euphoric high as usual and it just kind of tasted boring. It made me tired. Most weeks, I have about 14 beers in a week. In the past week I had TWO and they were blah. My new “addiction” for whatever reason is carbonated water. It tastes soooo good. I have been drinking so much water that the water weight is shrinking. My joints are getting better and my back is easier to “pop” back into alignment on my own.
Tomorrow I am taking off work so I can see my ex-bro-in law play guitar tonight with this fun, weirdo band. Maybe I will dance because drinking isn’t really that fun anymore 🙂 Then I can sleep late and garden during the day. Wish me luck that I remember to take it in stride so I can get my onion bed and tomato bed planted before my seedlings kick it. haha.
“(I’m getting bloodwork done tomorrow and again afterwards… so excited to see what results I get):
“I feel absolutely incredible and so grateful for what it’s done for me. I’d be happy to help in any way I can. Documentation beats conversation with these results…
-Total cholesterol went down 191 (borderline) to 137: 54 point drop! -Bad cholesterol went down 93 to 51: 42 point drop! -Triglycerides went down from 160 (this is HIGH) to 86: a 74 point drop! -Total weight lost: 13 pounds. Yeah, the Reset WORKS!!!
To quote the doctor: “No cholesterol medication could ever do that in 3 weeks”.
To quote my PharmD friend (who coincidentally works for a major pharmacy chain, lol) regarding pharmaceutical companies : “(insert any major pharmaceutical company’s name) doesn’t want this kind of data out or they will be out of business. Very impressive…our best drugs can’t even get close to that.”
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I want to preface this by saying the FDA has an incredibly important role. I would personally like to see the FDA rebuilt from the ground up into the affective agency that it should be to begin with; free of politics and unethical practices.
Three former FDA commissioners including David Kessler says that the FDA has “no mandate for leadership on prevention of food safety problems, no funding to do important research to find ways to prevent food-borne illness and no tools to hold companies accountable for implementing food safety measures and taking quick action when a problem is discovered. Simply put, our food safety system is broken. The reality is that there currently is no mandate, no leadership, no resources, nor scientific research base for prevention of food safety systems.”
Committee chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. said that the “warning signs are clear: FDA is an agency in crisis”. He said that the committee would focus on FDA budget cuts, the agency’s ability to enforce regulations and the legal authorities the agency has to do its job. Waxman also says that, “incompetent government can only have deadly consequences”. From inside the FDA it’s an agency recognized as a broken, ineffective, ill equipped, under staffed, under funded Government agency and the best they can do is cut more funding??? Is anyone out there reading this seriously still depending on the FDA for their food and drug safety??
Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb is quoted as saying that, “the FDA is failing to use its authority to strike a balance on this issue.” – referring to the FDA’s “Broken Approval Process”
Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton, called the food safety system ‘broken’ and said the “FDA needs to restore research and other efforts” – This crosses both isles of politics here. That in itself is remarkable!
Check just a few of the VERY long list of FDA approved drugs that induced heart attacks, strokes, and killed people before they were eventually recalled AFTER the dying had already been occurring for a while: Vioxx, Bextra, Zelnorm, Tysabri, Neutrospec, Cylert, Permax, Baycol, Palladone, thalidomide, and the list gos on and on.
“I will never take anything that is not FDA approved”. I’m sure the people who took the above listed FDA approved drugs relied on the FDA for approval to and it killed them. Do you want to be a statistic? For the love of yourself and your family don’t be so arbitrary when putting anything in your mouth that is FDA approved or non FDA approved. If you put all your reliance into anything, FDA or other, then you loose your power and your control over your own destiny. Be a composite of many sources, form your own educated conclusions, seek for the knowledge, make the discoveries that can drastically change the course of your life, OR give up your power to the FDA. At least if whomever you’ve relinquished your power to kills you then you can say it wasn’t your fault. But, removing yourself from being responsible goes with the territory of having no power over your own life.
As it stands right now and in the past it’s more safe to depend on a reputable company in conjunction with your own findings than to depend solely on FDA approval in my opinion. I have a Boat load, no make that a BARGE load of fact based reasonings for my opinion.
The FDA fails to catch serious and often FATAL side effects in a number of drugs before they are approved. Many critics attribute these failures to the agencys close ties with the medical industry; BIG pharmaceutical. ***By the way no one has ever died of a pharmaceutical deficiency. People die of problems stemming from whole food nutrient deficiencies all the time though.*** The close ties between the FDA and BIG pharmaceuticals are exemplified by the 1992 prescription drug user fees act which requires industry to pay user fees that help fund the agencys review of new drugs for approval. Can you see the potential for biased, pre conceived, or “smudged” findings at the expense of peoples lives? Quite literally! This is not an Agency that I personally want to put my reliance or faith in. Do you??
The FDA is a government agency. Everyone knows that government agencies are the most ineffective and corrupt agencies in America and often times are incentivised by kickbacks, extortion, and other extremely un ethical incentives. America has always been at its best when we rely more on ourselves, a free market place, and less on government simply because government is not good at making decisions on our behalf.
I’m going to talk about Team Beachbody simply because I absolutely love the results in peoples lives, including my own, that these products are creating! Nothing in Team Beachbody is FDA approved. The FDA is overwhelmingly partial to Big pharmaceutical and big medicine when it comes to approval which the 1992 prescription drug user fees act demonstrates. ALL Team Beachbody consumables are 100% all natural whole food ingredients. The FDA doesn’t spend a lot of time in this area. The 1992 prescription drug user fees act requires industry to pay user fees that help fund the agencys review of new drugs for approval. But in the FDAs defense, there probably isn’t much logistical need to spend their very valuable time and money examining whole foods. Whole foods have a tendency to do what their suppose to do, that is, to keep us healthy for the past 6,000 plus years. It’s the man made stuff that has to be looked at carefully and often times they get it wrong.
Even with all the data we have available to us in massive volumes about medicines, drugs, pharmaceuticals, whole foods, organic foods etc the one thing that touches me more than all of that other stuff combined is the continuous feedback I get, especially from my Shakeology users, about the ENORMOUS health benefits these whole foods are having in their lives! Their doctors are amazed at their health progress! Their lives are being changed in every way imaginable! When you’re feeling good and your healthy it affects every aspect of your life it is quite literally life changing. But to rob yourself of something like Shakeology because it lacks approval from an agency that is admittedly broken and ineffective by its own commissioners is at the very least a questionable philosophy in my opinion. It’s a philosophy that very well could keep a person from making the discoveries that can drastically change his or her life forever.
You could conceivably never get sick again or be diagnosed with a disease no matter how many years you live. Your body is perfect health and it wants to keep illness and disease controlled and contained in it’s little corner so that it cannot take over. All YOU have to do is give your body the raw materials it needs to do what it innately wants to do, that is, keep you healthy! If you’ve already been diagnosed with something you could even totally reverse it and it doesn’t matter what you call it! Your body already has all the tools it needs to prevent, arrest, even reverse chronic disease. It just needs those raw materials so it can do it’s thing!!
Sickness and disease is always waiting, never far away, no matter how healthy you are. It waits for a vulnerability in your natural defenses so it can sneak in and exploit that vulnerability.
1st grade question for you: When you drink a soda instead of eating a banana are you enabling sickness or health inside your body? Exactly!! I don’t even have to give you the answer because you already know! And if you’re like me you are not even certified to pop a pimple much less a certified “expert” in nutrition. This is StOOpid Simple!!
It is IMPOSSIBLE for sickness or disease to live inside of a truly healthy body. And by healthy I’m not talking about how the medical community defines healthy. Over half of the people the medical community defines as healthy will go on to develop and literally die of 1 or more chronic diseases because they did nothing to correct the underlying problem and possibly increased their patients totally preventable death by telling them they are “healthy” which just makes most people feel more enabled to keep eating the nutrient deficient toxic foods that will eventually kill them. I wrote another blog about the radically different definitions of what it means to be Healthy. Check it out: Two Very Different Views on What Exactly is a Healthy Body
When most people get sick or gain a disease they do absolutely nothing to correct the underlying problem by permanently changing life style. Instead there Dr prescribes drugs and they get sick again. Most of those people will say, “it just happens it’s part of life etc..” That’s not true getting sick and diseased is only part of life if you cheat yourself on giving your body the raw materials it needs to stave off sickness and disease. Short change yourself with nutrition by continuously eating nutrient deficient toxic food and you cannot help but to occupy a nutrient deficient toxic body, period.
Be smart! Don’t be like the many. In this instance it’s soooooo easy to be smart because most of this stuff we already know! My first grade question from a few paragraphs above proves we already know so much of this stuff without being an “expert”! When you do get sick LEARN from the negative feedback that your body is giving you so you may make a new discovery, learn a new skill, and possibly prevent that sickness from ever occurring inside your body again. Learning is error driven! Sickness in your body is opportunity to learn just as an error in judgment or prediction is opportunity to learn and grow and become BETTER than you were yesterday at ANYTHING. But first you have to consciously recognize you got sick because your body is missing some raw materials you didn’t feed it so that it can do it’s thing! Or quite possibly you exposed yourself to some mega toxic breathing air or something you absorbed into your skin which is further cause to give your body the raw materials it needs so it can fight off this stuff every day!
The very presence of a sickness or a disease validates proof positive that sickness was able to exploit a vulnerability in your bodys natural defenses. Not even the medical community can argue that. But MOST of them working in the medical community do absolutely nothing to have their patient correct the underlying problem MOST of them in the medical community will give you medical treatment until you get sick again and then more medical treatment and this vicious cycle continues until YOU CHANGE OR it eventually kills you. It’s great for business if you don’t change but makes NO SENSE for increasing your health.
I am not a Dr, a nutritionist, I am not certified licensed or boarded to do anything. I’m not undermining any treatment or advice you might be getting from a qualified health care professional. I am however advocating that you stop holding anyone else responsible for solving your problems and healing your body. Do your research and be your own d a m n advocate. Include your Dr as part of your over all Team but the final decision on what you do is up to YOU. It’s time to stop being patients and start being people.
I am so flippin’ excited, I have to share. When I started on this Beachbody journey, it was for personal weight loss. Tom Birkenmeyer, do you remember me calling you from a store parking lot IN TEARS, because I had to lose weight NOW!!!??? I saw an outfit that was clearanced from $250.00 down to $32.00 and I couldn’t fit into it. I was devastated! Fast forward to this morning (11 months into my journey)….I just picked up 2 brand new pairs of jeans and a skirt (all on clearance 🙂 ) in a size that I haven’t worn since 1982!!!!!! That business suit that I wanted that day….WOULD BE TOO FLIPPIN’ BIG ON ME NOW!!!! I am beyond STOKED right now and practically in tears as I type this. Tom, thank you so much for sticking with me. I am so thankful for you and Beachbody!
I was in a size 18 when I started this. I just got my rear end into size 10 pants. I literally haven’t worn a size 10 since before my daughter was born. She was born in July of 1983. Crazy motivated right now!!!!!
“Tom, a good report this month I had gotten my period and no bloating or pain. I have suffered with so much pain and I wished someone would shoot me and get my suffering over with. I feel fine I can’t believe it……Thanks to you and shakeology yay!! I feel brighter and emotionally stronger…this shakeology is really lifting my depression or helping me rise above the storm in my life” – Teri
“I sleep like I am dead! I used to wake up about every 2-3 hours every single night but not now ever. It (Shakeology) has also completely eliminated all estrogen replacements meds for me! HaPpY DaNcE!!!” -By the way – this happy person is drinking Shakeology and working out most days of the week with Slim in 6.
“I just had to share this… my mom has been drinking Shakeology for two weeks… She is also going through early menopause… Since she started drinking it she has had no night sweats, is able to sleep through the night (which she hasn’t done in years without sleeping medication), and her personal trainer, who she has had for months, keeps asking her what she’s doing to lose weight!! I’m so happy for her!!” -Jennifer M
“After a few weeks of drinking Shakeology, I noticed that all of my menopause symptoms went away….no hot flashes, no major mood swings — nothing!! That, ALONE, was good enough reason to continue drinking Shakeology!!! (yikes!) …what also made me continue was the increase in energy, weight loss, reduced cravings & poor blood test results move into normal ranges in just 2 months!! Shakeology just really helps to heal the body!!” -Joyce Wingate Boyden
People have asked just WHY I drink Shakeology? Well, some of the main things I noticed was that my hot flashes are GONE! So are the mood swings that used to come with my cycle. Having those symptoms GONE is more than worth the price!! But it also gives me the steady energy I love every day- without peaks/crashes. I feel better, stronger, healthier. You really can’t BUY that- but you CAN buy Shakeology! –Angela Gee Bray
“I think Shakeology does greatly reduce menopausal symptoms.” –Lora C.
“It’s only been a month but I hardly cramped this month!” – Denise F.
– Tom
Try Shakeology. If you don’t feel significantly better in 30 days I want you to get all of your money back including free shipping so you have no risk if it doesn’t work out for you.
There are two main VERY different definitions of what a Healthy body is. See which one makes more sense to you.
The medical community defines a healthy body as a body that currently displays no risk factors for heart attack, stroke, or chronic disease. You’re simply told, “Good job you’re healthy see you for your next regular check up”. And well over half of those supposedly healthy people will go on to develop at least one chronic disease. Many of them two or more chronic diseases. And many of those will drop dead of a massive sudden heart attack or stroke as their first warning sign that something is wrong in which case will be too late to fix the underlying problem.
Naturalists, as well as my personal beliefs, define a healthy body as a body that is activated and reactivated to enable the bodys own healing mechanisms to keep all disease and sickness at bay and it doesn’t matter what you call the disease if the body is truly healthy then disease cannot invade the body. If something invades the body its because the invader was enabled to exploit a vulnerability in the bodys natural defenses because the vulnerability exists in the first place.
Instead of only treating the symptom its our responsibility to fix the underlying problem and REACTIVATE the bodys own healing mechanisms to fix the problem.
In the medical community healthy people are taken over by chronic disease, heart attack, and stroke every day because they do not enable the body to heal itself instead they only treat the disease or the sickness. I believe if the medical community redefined what it is to be healthy then they’d have more power to help people change their life style and become truly healthy people with fully equipped healing mechanisms inside. All of the equipment needed is already there in the body! So Flippin Activate it already!!
If we just accept disease as fate or genetics then it makes us easy to just cry victim powerless over our own lives to reclaim our own health. The body innately wants to heal itself. There is a real under estimated MAGIC to that innate desire the body has! We just have to give the body the tools it needs to do so. That’s where nutrition, physical activity, sleep, and over all life style come into play.
Either health or sickness will win and take over your body. The one better nourished wins. If health wins you win. If sickness and disease wins you lose. If the body asks for organic whole foods and you give it a diet coke you sabotage your own self interest by nourishing sickness over health. Nourish Health so it can do its thing for you and give you a MASSIVE wonderfully abundant healthy life.
Yes toxic food is generally cheaper than healthy food. Your body doesn’t care! Health doesn’t comprehend money. But you do! Health is the BEST wealth. Some of you out there are making money decisions at the expense of your health saving your wealth to buy the deficient toxic foods. And then you don’t have any wealth either so that plan is not working out to well! People who think this way are generally poor in almost every area imaginable especially in wealth and health. I know its not out of laziness some people are running HARD chasing sunsets but they’re running east! Maybe a good plan is all that’s needed so all that energy is refocused in a way that’s more in line with what they want?
Shift your beliefs and you can have it all. Wealth, Health, Success and Fulfillment.
P.S. I am not here to undermined any advice, care, or treatment you are getting from your doctor or other health care professionals. I’m preaching personal responsibility for you to do your own research, include your doctor as part of your team, and make your own decisions as your own personal advocate for the things you want.
3 documentary films you must see in my opinion are “Food Matters”, “Forks Over Knives”, and “Food Inc”. Literally every person that I know, including myself, who have seen these films have been inspired to change the way they spend their money and what they put into their bodies. Consequently they are living happier, healthier, more fulfilling lives. If you are like me you will probably feel like you’ve been treated by those motivated by pure profit as nothing more than a rag doll just tossed around and respected about as much as they respect their workers and farm animals. I do not want to make those people rich anymore at the expense of my income, health, and the planet in which I live. We need to become aware (watch those documentaries) then pay the awareness forward so more people take personal responsibility for their health and spend their money differently.
Industry will follow the money they always have and always will. If we want industry to change then first WE must change.
I would absolutely love to hear what you think and feel after watching the three films I recommended. Please by all means reach out to me on my Facebook.
– Tom
Desert Sage
P.S. A transcribed Excerpt from “Food Matters”
I worked with a lady once who was suicidally depressed. She lived at home with her family. She was in her fifties. She spent all day sitting in a corner facing the corner. She wouldn’t talk to anyone, eat with anyone, she was totally un communicative. She was under the care of a psychiatrist as she should be. The psychiatrist had her on a variety of medications which you would expect. The family was wondering about her nutrition. I mentioned to them about Dr Hoffers work with niacin, a naturally occurring vitamin in nature, and they wondered how much she needed to take. At 11,500 mg of niacin a day she was sitting at the table talking to them like nothing had happened. So they went to the psychiatrist and showed the psychiatrist this recovered person. The psychiatrist said wellllll I don’t think you should take all that niacin it might be harmful. So they stopped giving her the niacin and she was back in the corner. There is not one death from niacin per year on average. There have been one or two attributed to niacin over the last 15 or 20 years. But there is not even one death per year from niacin. How many people per year who are suicidally depressed go and end their lives? – Andrew W. Saul Ph.D.
Doctor Saul gos on to say…
Two handfuls of cashews give you the therapeutic equivalent of a prescription dose of Prozac. If you’re depressed the first thing you can do is know that its ok to be depressed. If you’re malnourished you should be depressed so don’t do that anymore. Go and eat good food.
90% – 95% of the food in most grocery stores is nutrient deficient toxic food. People who consume deficient toxic food can’t help but to occupy a deficient toxic body. ~ Get Informed ~
Most of the nutrient dense non toxic food will usually be on the outside isles of the grocery store. But not even that is enough! Look for the organic plant based all natural Whole Foods. I follow a plant based whole food nutrient rich diet. Every person I know who eats a plant based whole food diet has more natural energy and feels better than people who eat too much meat and dairy. They perform better, feel better, alleviate stress better, recover better from traumatic events, recover better from exercise, and they don’t “crash” in the middle of the day. This kind of plant based super food nutrition has also been known to prevent, arrest, and reverse many different kinds of chronic diseases. Hippocrates said let thy food be thy medicine..
Here is a list of some GREAT items I love to throw in my shopping cart when I hit the store! =) by the way, you might also like our Plant Based Whole Food Cooking and Juicing show for more ideas.
My Healthy Grocery Shopping List! I’ve listed some VEGAN resources, and other Helpful resources, at the bottom as well as some more food tips!
Proteins
Lentils
Quinoa
Nuts and seeds
Beans
Fish (water packed tuna or fillets, salmon, halibut, cod, red snapper, tilapia
Enjoy Life Cereal – Crunchy Flax Original Gluten Free 6 grams of fiber per serving!
Whole Wheat Pita (Low Carb Variety – Joseph’s Pita Bread, or Food for Life brand)
Corn Tortillas (Food for life brand)
Whole Wheat Tortillas (Food for Life brand)
Rice Cakes (lightly salted only)
Non Dairy Cheese!! (this is being the most difficult VEGAN food to find that tastes good)
coming soon… But for now DAIYA is the best I’ve found.. I’ve also had CASHEW based home made cheeses that, to my extreme surprise, taste better than the best dairy cheese I’ve had. I’m from Wisconsin so I know and LOVE dairy cheese. I just stay away from it now because dairy is a slow killer, literally. I haven’t found any cashew based cheeses sadly. Not yet anyway. Google recipes for Cashew based Vegan Cheeses. They are amazing. Also, check out our video on making a VEGAN Nachos and Cheese with a Cashew Base. Every meat eater I’ve ever fed this to, so far, raves about it and how much better it tastes than dairy cheese.
I use to be a strong advocate for milk and all dairy. I’ve learned things about milk and dairy that I cannot unlearn. I put together some resources to help you with your own research and decision. If you choose to go dairy free for yourself and for your family I want it to be because you made an informed decision that you feel good about rather than because you blindly followed me. You may even find yourself very angry at the dairy industry, the federal government, the Pharmaceutical industry, and big agriculture as you learn the truth about Dairy that the Dairy industry or the government is not going to tell you. Click Here for some Non Dairy Resources.
Green Leafy Lettuce (Green Leaf, Red, Leaf, Romaine)/Bagged Salad
Fresh Beets
Broccoli
Asparagus
String Beans
Black Beans
Spinach
Bell Peppers
Brussels Sprouts
Cauliflower
Celery
Mushrooms
Pickles
Cabbage
Sprouts
Cucumber
Green or Red Pepper
Onions
Garlic
Tomatoes
Zucchini
Squash
Spaghetti Squash
Pumpkin
Sea Vegetables
Wakame Seaweed
Nori Seaweed
Arame Seaweed
Fruit
Berries (All berries are great!)
Lemons or Limes
Melons (not watermelon)
Grapefruit
Apples
Dates
Grapes
Oranges
Eat bananas, strawberries, peaches or plums sparingly (lots of natural sugar)
No dried fruits, including raisins (loaded with sugar)
Healthy Fats
The ONLY way to eat healthy fats is in their Whole Food Form such as WHOLE walnuts, seeds, avocados etc. If you’re going to do oils use them minimally. Here are a few:
Olive Oil Extra Virgin First Cold Pressed
Raw Nuts (almonds, pecans, cashews)
Flaxseed Oil
Coconut Oil – un refined extra virgin
Sesame Oil – Cold pressed
Avocado
Beverages
Water! (Install a water filter for your home. Bottled water is toxic. Bad for you and bad for the environment. And for Petes sake stay away from Vitamin or Flavored Water!)
Unsweetened Tea (If you use sweetener make sure it’s all natural organic such as cane sugar or stevia)
Black Coffee (I have coffee only once and a while. Always organic and fair trade. Fair trade ensures the farmers are compensated fairly)
Non Dairy Milk (rice milk, almond milk, hemp milk etc. – Soy Free and Dairy Free)
Condiments & Misc.
Organic Ville Non Dairy Mayo (Finding a VEGAN Mayo that tasted really good was amazing for me. This tastes better than hellmans original mayo and I LOVE hellmans!)
Bragg Liquid Aminos – Soy Sauce substitute
Apple Cider Vinegar (unfiltered, raw, and unpasteurized)
Miso (Make sure it contains NO MSG)
Mirin (Look for EDEN brand)
Rice Vinegar (Unflavored, unsweetened, no high fructose corn syrup)
Umeboshi Vinegar
Balsamic Vinegar
Balsamic or Raspberry Vinaigrette (Farm Grove)
Salsa or Fresh Pico De Gallo
Extracts (vanilla, almond, etc) <— Great in your coffee in place of creamer!
Cayenne Pepper Powder (A staple in my house I put it on almost everything especially my raw vegan dishes)
Instead of Sugars try WHOLE FOODs as sweeteners. I listed some “healthy” sugars below and even though they are “healthy” it is still NOT healthy to add ANY kind of sugar isolate to your food. Check out this video I made and cut all sugar isolates out of your diet =) https://youtu.be/TNKC4h2uBuE
Raw, Unfiltered Honey
Stevia
Grade “B” Dark Maple Syrup
Agave Nectar
Coconut Palm Nectar
Raw Cane Sugar
BEST Sweets to Curb your cravings!
Shakeology (Vegan Chocolate is my personal fav!!! I have 2 servings each and every day)
Powerful Healers Found in Herbs and Spices! Get into the habit of cooking with these Immediately! RAW has more Power In Healing Yourself and Loved ones:
Oregano
Cumin
Garlic
Ginger
Turmeric
Basil
Clove
Fennel
Mint
Parsley
Fenugreek
Cayenne Pepper
Rosemary
Cinnamon
Paprika
Cilantro
Dill
Sage
Thyme
Safron
More Tips:
– Cut out Dairy
– Cut out GMO contaminated food
– Eat More Organic
– Eat Less Gluten
– Buy Local whenever possible. Support your local economy and the Land!
– Instead of olive oil eat whole olives. Instaed of nut oils eat whole nuts. Instead of avocado oil eat whole avocado etc.
– Instead of sugar eat whole foods that have sugar that naturally occurs in them.
– Red Meat Purchases; ONLY GRASS FED. Corn fed cattle is pro inflammatory to the human body
– Poultry; purchase only organic and caged free
– Fish; purchase only wild caught. A lot of the fish farms are toxic and have sea lice as well as other bacteria destroying the nutritional benefit of their fish.
– Pork; there really is no good option but if you buy it buy organic
Just over six years ago, when I was 29, I herniated two disks in my neck at C5-6 and C6-7 which are at the base of the neck right between the tops of my shoulder blades. I didn’t have surgery, so I still get flare-ups from time to time, and they can last from weeks to months of sharp, excruciating pain. For years I’ve been waking up every day in so much pain in the morning that I can’t function normally. Taking a shower in the morning was nearly impossible as I couldn’t twist or turn to reach everywhere. It would take hours to “warm up” and some days it would last all day. The closest I can come to describing it is it feels like an ice pick or a knife jammed between your shoulder blades. Just two or three years ago, there were a few days where I’d be at work and do some simple twisting movement or stretch and I’d have to go to the ER because the pain was so intense. Crippling. Even recently I was having enough trouble that I went to a sports and spine center to get some therapy.
I’ve been working out with Power90 and drinking Shakeology for the last three weeks. I have strengthened the muscles in my shoulders and back enough that I am no longer waking up in any pain. I’m sleeping better, I can function properly, and I feel better than I’ve felt in years. I initially started doing this to lose weight and get in shape. Now I see weight loss as a bonus. Being pain-free is what motivates me!
Coby Linder: How Beachbody® saved my dad’s life (and Challenge Packs saved my business)
By staff writer Abby Cohen
“I wasn’t a marketing guy, or a workout guy,” says Coby Linder. “Just a drummer in a band, a fat kid who watched his dad almost kill himself with food. He didn’t know how to stop. Until he found Beachbody.”
Three years ago, Coby was the last person you’d expect to see posting YouTube® videos about Shakeology®. Touring the world with his band, Say Anything, Coby was living his dream of playing drums professionally. “Wherever we went, the crowds loved us,” he remembers. “I thought it was too good to be true.”
Turns out he was right.
“I was drinking too much, eating really badly, smoking . . .” Coby admits. “I was at my heaviest ever. I couldn’t stop—it was just like my dad.” It was then that Coby got the devastating news.
“Not only had my father contracted cancer for the second time, he’d been diagnosed with diabetes.” Coby shakes his head. “He had to change everything in life, fast. Or he wouldn’t HAVE a life.”
Coby had been unable to quit his own unhealthy habits, but facing his dad’s mortality, something shifted. At the peak of his music career, Coby decided to focus on his father.
“I put dad and me on P90X—both of us were guinea pigs to see if I could be a good Coach,” he recalls. But Coby never expected this other outcome.
“This program I did for my dad’s health . . . ended up saving mine.”
His father dropped a whopping 120 pounds and got his diabetes under control, and chemotherapy eradicated his cancer. Coby lost 45 pounds, too, proving to himself that he had the power to dramatically improve his health. But while his dad continued to get healthier, Coby wasn’t so lucky.
“I went back on tour and gained back all the weight. The yo-yoing was really discouraging. Frankly, I started to get desperate—thankfully! Because THAT gave me the willingness to change.” That’s when the real transformation started, when Coby tried something he’d been resisting.
“As soon as I gave Shakeology a chance, I fell in love with it,” he says. “I started to accept that I’d been using food emotionally and finally, I was ready to stop. I let Shakeology do what it was going to do. I wanted Coaching to have a real effect on me, so I decided to go to the biggest Coaching event of the year.
“I went to Summit, open to whatever was going to happen. It was so inspiring, I went Emerald a week later and Diamond three weeks after that!”
Coby put in a lot of hard work and it paid off. But the most significant spike in his earnings came from a “simple” change.
“I started selling Challenge Packs. That worked like nothing else—even people who’d never been interested before got on board.”
Coby chalks it up to the framework of the Beachbody Challenge™. People still work out at home when they can best fit it in—but now the group is accountable to each other, and to him. “We all inspire each other,” he explains.
In fact, the Beachbody Challenge gave Coby something he’d wanted from day one of his Coaching business:
“For the first time, my Beachbody check covered all my rent and expenses!”
“My earnings went from an average of $175 a week to over $1100. And with the Beachbody Challenge, I know I can make even more.”
To make sure his group stays focused, Coby connects often. “I post motivational quotes, reply immediately to calls and messages, help with meal plans—I’ve even taken people grocery shopping to show them what ingredients to look for and which things to avoid.”
The way he sees it, these interactions are another advantage.
“Everyone in my Challenge Group is excited to hear my suggestions and ideas—and their motivation is incredible.”
What advice does he have for Coaches who are about to embark on a Challenge Group?
“Do it for real, from the heart. Participate and care. These people make a commitment to you as much as to themselves and their programs. You have to take this journey too—invite them to join you.”
“Whatever program you’re doing now, stop. Start it over as a Challenge Group and you’ll see better results.”
Now when Coby goes on tour, he drinks Shakeology, exercises before the shows, and makes sure his band is supplied with healthy food. He’s even gotten other band members to do the same.
Of course, the biggest change for Coby has been his peace of mind, knowing his father is healthy.
Says Coby, “My dad’s a two-time cancer survivor; he’s obviously a fighter. He just didn’t know how to fight until Beachbody. There are all these Beachbody Success Stories, and heroes—I put my dad right up there with all of them. Now I can’t think of anything better than taking after him.”
Coach’s Playbook:
If you’ve got one person, you can start a group. Find their friends, get your family into it—once you start it, everyone will be hooked.
Put at least an hour a day into your Challenge Group. You owe it to them—and yourself. And the results are amazing.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. If you put your mind to it, you can easily find ways to keep people interested—especially once they start seeing results.
Educate yourself. The more you know, the more you can help others.
Trying something is better than trying nothing.Even the most profound changes start with a shift in mindset. I tell people who want to lose weight, why not just try SOMETHING?
P90X and Insanity Awesomeness Aging me Gracefully My Fountain of Youth!!
Good Morning everyone!!! This is long but YOUR worth it!
I was on the call last night facilitated by the AWESOME Barbie Decker with Monica and Dave Ward who are the newest and 13th Millionaires with Team Beachbody. What incredibly humble people! They do not consider themselves any different then any one of us. They contribute their position in Beachbody with be consistent daily with unwaivered faith in doing what they love to do. Monica was a successful Teacher and Dave was a successful Attorney when they started this. Dave tried to talk Monica out of it at first. They now have 4 or five multi diamond business centers and they say it all arrived by truly doing what they love and that is helping others. They never focused on the money only the people.
In listening to them I also found a true sense of keeping it real. Always work from where you are and completely focus in the moment. Dani Johnson(look her up on Facebook. Brilliant motivator!) talks about this to great extent. We are surrounded by greatness in this Beachbody Community but never get ahead of yourself. Do not try to jump ahead to quick. Work from where you are and build solid foundations.
Some of the highlights were:
Gym vs. joining Team Beachbody. The Gym can be a big scary place you drive by a lot and never really go in. When you do it can be intimidating and confusing with many fees that go along with guidance or coaching. Big $$$ for someplace that can be overly busy in the beginning of the year and inconvenient with a busy schedule. The % of failure with new gym memberships is very high. No accountability. With Beachbody you have the comfort of your own home with no lines or waiting time. You learn fitness, nutrition, success along with life skills. We give a plan, a path and a deadline requiring accountability from all sides. You also get the joy and fulfillment of a fantastic community of non stop support.
Peoples “Why” Not only is it important but is it even big enough? Dave Ward said if your “why” is to drive a Ferrari well, what is after that??? He said really that Ferrari is not important. People tend to set their “why” around “things” and those “things” really are not important in the big picture of life. The sacrifice has to be WORTH the “why” Their first focus was the fulfillment of family time. Having unlimited time to spend with their children fueled their success and everything else material, house, cars, vacations came but were secondary to their true “why”
Immerse in personal development daily and be completely consistent with that. Minimum of reading 10 pages of personal development a day. Dave and Monica both stressed that you must strive for personal fulfillment. It is imperative for without it you may achieve your goals but never really be happy. Funny Monica quoted from a book I am currently reading for the SECOND time! yes I re read books! Especially ones that hook me in the first few pages. This quote is also from one of my GREATEST mentors ever Tony Robbins and it goes like this…. “I have seen business moguls achieve their goals, but still live in frustration, worry and fear. What’s preventing these successful people from being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not on fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does NOT guarantee extraordinary, joy, happiness, love and a sense of meaning.These to skill sets feed off each other and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure”
That’s why it is not enough to just choose to be successful. You have to DIG deeper then that to find your core motivation, to activate your superpower (YES YOU HAVE ONE!) Your why-power! The book is The Compound Effect and this was from a 2009 Success Mag interview with the CEO Darren Hardy (also author of the book) and Tony.
They talked about excuses and responsibility. Simple break down of that is this, If you want 5 people in your Challenge Group and you have 4 and stop. Your making an excuse why you didn’t get 5. You did not take responsibility to get that 5th person. you did not make enough calls, talk to enough people, send out enough invites to get that 5th yes. Do what ever it take for as long as it take to get where you promised yourself you would be. you need to figure out where you want to be and go after it with unwaivering faith. Excuses are easy responsibility is tough but it pays off in the end.
They closed with this. Figure out what is standing in your way. Is it you??? Then figure out what you truly want and include fulfillment in that dream. What fulfills YOUR life? more time with the kids, volunteering, starting a foundation…What is it? Then decide how bad you want it and go get it. Action!
I hope you read through all of this. A lot Tom has already taught me but hearing different perspectives just plants the seeds deeper. Thanks Tom, you are a true blessing in my life and I am forever grateful. We can never get enough of a good thing in our lives. Embrace and surround yourselves with who you want to be like and it WILL happen! I wish each and every one of you your dreams and a fulfilled life of helping others
Just a note to tell u this:
It is ALLL YOUR fault !
yep,sure enough, it is !
Every pound I lost,
Every time I went for a walk when i really didn’t want to,
Every time I pushed myself to walk around the house when it was nasty outside,
Every time I pushed myself to move away from the computer and do SOMETHING physical,
Every time I walked around Wal-mart and did so for more than an hour
Every time I went to a buffet-style restaurant and made better choices
Every time I ate smaller meals
Every time I stopped when i was satisfied
Every time I tried on an outfit that I KNEW was too small for me (and it actually fit !!)
Every time i forced myself to clean house or to do something I really didn’t want to do
Every meal I ate,that I ate more veggies than meat/pasta.
Every time I stepped on the scale,weighed myself and saw for my own eyes, that the weight was going away,
Every time I felt my body and actually felt the weight gone.
Every time my hubby looked at me and asked if I was losing weight,
Every time my neighbors made notice that I was losing weight because my clothes were too big,
Every time I tried on my “fat” clothes and had to take in the elastic waistband,
Every time I tried on a shirt and it was looser than before.
Yep,Tom,
it really Is all YOUR FAULT !
yep,and you should be proud of yourself,too,Tom,for doing so.
Why ?
Because no one else has ever gave me the incentive to make me wanna lose weight,until meeting you and your challenge.
I am now at 219. i have not “seen” 219 since i got married,and that was over 15 years ago.
Thank you,Tom,for giving me the gift of life,and for giving me the hope and courage I needed to make that change myself.
THANK YOU !!!!
i hope this finds you happy and well,
your friend,
Tina
In 1992 I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia as I started having pains all over my body. Achy, and tired all the time. As the years went on with my new diagnosis the pains got worse and the fatigue got bad.
My Dr tried many medications and new medications came out and clinical trials to try and get my pain under control, yet nothing worked, and I hated feeling “drugged” all the time. I even… tried acupuncture, and massage therapy was excruciatingly painful. And well hypnosis didn’t work either.
In 2004 I started using a forearm crutch to assist me in walking. This was devastating because I used to be a competitive long distance swimmer and was so active all the time. And now I couldn’t even play with my kids.
There are some that say that surgery exacerbates fibromyalgia and I have had seven since 1999- 2009, and in 2007 I humbled myself and sat myself in a wheelchair for the days that the forearm crutch couldn’t help me because I couldn’t even stand up or sit down or have the strength to grasp the crutch. I used to crawl up and down the stairs.
In 2009 I convinced myself there had to be something out there that could help and all the research said was exercise.. and I thought how can I when I can barely walk on most days.
In February of 2010 I started a workout program and my coach suggested that I start drinking a shake called Shakeology. It would give me energy and help me loose weight and it had all this good nutrition. I said ok.. can’t hurt right?
Never did I ever imagine that my energy did come back! I was able to do more and longer workouts and didn’t have to rest 2-4 days in agony from working out.
But my number one dream and prayer had happened.. one day and I can’t remember when it happened… I woke up without a single ounce of pain! This was one of the single most happiest moments of my life! And since I started drinking Shakeology I have stopped taking all medication. No more pain medications, my mood was better, my energy was incredible. And NO FLAIR UPS!
In the fall of 2010 my boys who were entering 9th grade, and were on the cross country team in school… and I.. yes I was the assistant coach of Boys Cross Country!!. It wasn’t that long ago that I was in a wheelchair and I was outside everyday in all of the nasty fall weather of Central New York running!
Today I can play with my kids and I am an any day soon to be grandma.. I can run in the fields, and on the roads of the countryside, and today I workout with high impact cardio workouts and muscle building.. and do 5 sets of 10 pullups.
The nutrition and the quality of the shakes is undeniable and unsurpassed. And everyday I am blessed for the quality of life I have now… and its all because I drink Shakeology .. it literally has been life changing. And to think where I would be if I never tried it…. still in pain 🙁
Thank you for being part of the Beachbody Coaching Team!
You’re tracking calories, working out each day, then bam! For a week or two, the scale refuses to budge . . . and you realize you’ve hit a dreaded weight loss plateau. Now what?
Even though it’s completely normal to hit a snag in your fitness journey, a perceived setback like this can send even the most dedicated dieter off course, away from healthy eating and toward cookies, cake, and pizza. But you can be strong and start getting back on the weight-loss track again. Try at least one of the following techniques, and there’s a good chance you’ll burst through your plateau in no time.
Here are five important things to know about hydration and exercise: 1. Zigzag your daily calorie intake. In theory, you’ve got to eat less to lose more, but this isn’t always the case. Sometimes you just have to shake things up. Here’s one way to do it: If your average daily intake is 1,400 calories, try dropping to 1,200 one day, going up to 1,800 the next day, and then dropping back to 1,400. The idea is to keep your metabolism guessing. There’s no magic number that works for everyone, so you’ll have to experiment until you find the right calorie levels for you.
According to Beachbody Director of Results Steve Edwards, what happens when you zigzag is that you force your body to choose how many calories it needs to recover from the rigors of your exercise program.
“Most people who hit a plateau are undereating. If you are indeed undereating, adding calories for a few days, then lowering them again, will help you force your body into a hormonal response that will not only help you break out of a plateau, but—as you learn to recognize the signals—will teach you how much food you should be eating.” 2. Switch up your exercise routine. If you do the same workout each day, eventually it can start to become less challenging, and (unfortunately) less effective. If you push yourself to new levels of strength or exhaustion, you’ll almost certainly see a shift. Here are some ways you can challenge your body:
-Swap your jog for a bike ride.
-Try weights with your cardio routine. (ChaLEAN Extreme® or RevAbs® can help you do this.)
-Add intervals of high intensity to really make you sweat. (INSANITY® is a great workout for this.)
-Drop to the floor for 10 push-ups right now!
The idea is to try something different. According to Edwards, “The better you get at something, the easier it becomes. That’s why we’re always telling you to add more weight as you get stronger, and to move faster and jump higher as our programs progress. But it’s also why all of our programs have phases of training. As your body adapts to stimulus, you need to change that stimulus in order to keep results happening.” 3. Eat some almonds. Almonds are a great snack, plus there’s some research that indicates that they can help you burn fat. That’s because they contain fiber and fatty acids—the good kind of fat that helps you lose weight. A study published in the International Journal of Obesity compared two groups of people who ate a 1,000-calorie-a-day diet. As part of their daily diet, one group ate 3 ounces of almonds every day. The other group ate a mix of complex carbs. What happened? The group that ate the almonds lost more weight.
So next time you grab a snack, try a small handful of almonds, or as Edwards says, “Any nut, really. While almonds are one of the better nuts, all of them have a similar nutritional profile and make excellent snacks. That research probably would have turned out similarly if they’d used walnuts or filberts or whatever.” 4. Get more sleep. This may seem like the opposite of number 2, but the truth is is that you could be training too hard, which is about the quickest way to hit a weight loss plateau, because an over-trained body holds on to weight as if it were starving to death. There’s no better way to test this than to try and sleep more. The reason is that your body recovers much more quickly from exercise while it’s asleep, and if you’re burning the midnight oil while trying to do INSANITY, you could easily plateau from lack of recovery time.
In a recent study at the University of Chicago Medical School, researchers found that during a period when study participants were deprived of sleep, they metabolized glucose less effectively. Additionally, they had higher levels of the hormone cortisol, which has been shown to impair memory, increase insulin resistance, and slow recovery in athletes.
“There’s a good reason why five-time Tour de France winner Eddy Merckx said, ‘The Tour is won in bed,'” says Edwards. Your body’s recovery response during deep sleep is only rivaled by performance-enhancing drugs. When you’re on the borderline of overtraining, getting more sleep is the first thing anyone should try.” 5. Relax. Believe it or not, the one big thing besides diet and exercise that can cause you to plateau is stress.
When you’re stressed, your body sends out higher levels of the hormone cortisol that, as stated in number 4, can encourage your body to hang on to fat. “Cortisol is actually a performance-enhancing hormone,” says Edwards. “But it’s gotten a bad rap because we’ve begun living our lives at too high a volume. Cortisol is released at times when the body is in an emergency state. It increases performance, but only over a short period of time. When cortisol is released and forced into action at regular intervals, it causes your body to wear down and switch to more drastic means of survival, like holding on to excess amounts of body fat. Your life shouldn’t feel like one big emergency. As a society, we need to learn to be more tranquilo, as the Spanish say.”
We get stressed for many reasons, almost all of which are influenced by the society around us. One of the best ways to combat stress is to get some alone time to chill. If you’re the type who can’t let go, try some forced relaxation techniques, of which yoga seems to be one of the most effective. There’s something special about the mind/body interaction of yoga that forces a relaxed state even from the most stressed of us.
If you feel you need a lot of help, dig into an intense course, like P90X Yoga X. For others, something lighter, like Yoga Booty Ballet® Pure and Simple Yoga, will do the trick. If you’re not into yoga, then consider at least adding some stretching into your schedule. Most of Beachbody’s programs have at least one stretching session. TurboFire® even has two!
Now are you ready to break through that plateau?
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There are many “protein shakes” and meal replacements that are less expensive than Shakeology. But comparisons – based on the simple “protein shake” or even “health shake” are usually off the mark because of intangibles like quality of sourcing, efficacy, and the delicate balance of incredible health benefits and delicious flavor that is unique to Shakeology.
When we developed Shakeology, our goal was to fill a void in the marketplace where the benefits of the shake would live up to the promise of the line “The Healthiest Meal of the Day.” Shakeology was designed for people who want more than protein, and for people who really expect the health benefits being represented by the ingredients on the label. With Shakeology not only do you get what you pay for, but because it tastes so good and the attention to every detail is so complete, you get more than you pay for.
To really know whether a product measures up to Shakeology, you need to keep some things in mind:
How Much is “Enough”?
We are proud of Shakeology’s 70+ ingredients. Other shakes will trumpet the number of ingredients they have too. But are the ingredients they are counting actually good for you?
Are they derived from whole food sources? They are in Shakeology! Too often the “magic ingredient” has been isolated from the enzymes and phytonutrients which actually are what is needed to make the “magic ingredient” effective when consumed.
And does the competition formulate for the synergistic benefits between the ingredients, or just slap together whatever is hot in the media? Shakeology was specially formulated for the collection of ingredients to work together like a symphony; this combination is so effective some people report dramatic benefits within the first week. We’re not just talking about weight loss here, we’re talking meaningful health benefits; regularity, energy, vitality!
Other supplements point to one or two individual ingredients and build a “story” around their super food attributes… that’s like saying you can put Michael Jordan on a team of amateurs and still have a championship caliber team. Shakeology’s specially selected ingredients work like the dream team, all working together so YOU get the health benefits from the healthiest meal of the day.
Vanilla?
If the shake you’re considering is vanilla, how do they achieve vanilla flavoring? Our research indicates that it is impossible for the superfoods, adaptogen herbs, anti-oxidants, phytonutrients and digestive enzymes to co-exist and taste good in a vanilla flavor, unless the vanilla flavor is achieved chemically and artificially. (It’s the “dirty little secret” of the flavoring industry even though labeling guidelines still allow this artificial flavoring to be called “natural vanilla flavoring”) Other companies are willing to use that labeling loophole for their benefit. But not Shakeology.
So here’s the question; are you drinking the shake so you can enjoy vanilla, or so you can get the incredible health benefits from a shake that doesn’t taste like a “health drink”? We call Shakeology “the healthiest meal of the day” for a reason, and we plan on doing what it takes to live up to that.
Protein:
When it comes to comparing protein quality, you need to look closely to see the truth:
“Say NO to soy”
Does the competition use ANY soy in their formulation? Soy protein contains estrogen-mimicking compounds that can interfere with your hormones, and on top of that most of the soy in the marketplace is GMO (genetically modified), two important reasons why we don’t use soy in Shakeology.
It is our general opinion that many people are consuming too much soy in the pursuit of health – and thus perhaps producing too much estrogen which can cause many adverse issues in the body. Do a little research of your own on the topic, and you will be as shocked as we are at what you will learn about soy.
Likewise, if a company is promoting that their protein is “more absorbable”, be careful. Protein sources like Whey Protein Hydrolysate have been shown to trigger a much higher insulin response in the body. That’s not an outcome we would tolerate in any health shake, much less Shakeology.
Our protein source is whey protein isolate, which is more than 90 percent pure protein. Plus, Shakeology is loaded with digestive enzymes-and lactase, that’s the enzyme that breaks down lactose and is found in over-the-counter products like Lactaid®. Don’t confuse whey protein concentrate with “isolate”. Whey protein concentrate is the least pure form of whey protein made. The benefits of “isolate” vs. “concentrate” is that the fat has been removed to achieve “isolate”. The fat in whey protein is what carries toxins consumed by the animal. That’s the reason Shakeology can be used by so many people who are lactose-intolerant – because those toxins have been removed through the isolate process.
We also look at the source of every single protein batch that shows up at the manufacturer. If we find the manufacturer is cutting a corner by bringing in protein from farms that use hormones or are ok feeding inorganic materials to their cattle, we tell them to find another source. This is the kind of scrutiny that other companies just don’t give their product, and it’s the kind of attention to detail which doesn’t show on the label. (But it does show in how you feel when you consume the product over the long term!)
Glycemic index tested…
In terms of sugar, many protein shakes have 1g of sugar or less. This is because they are using artificial chemical sweeteners (check the label for sucralose, aspartame, or sugar alcohols). Shakeology’s small amounts of sugar comes from natural sources which are easily processed by the body and in fact has been tested and certified by an independent lab to have a Low Glycemic Index of 24 – that’s lower than most fruits (an apple is 36 and an orange is 43)!
What is not in the base, they may suggest you add later:
Other shakes don’t cost as much as Shakeology at first glance, but they also don’t contain the full profile of vitamins and minerals or whole-food sources of anti-oxidants, phytonutrients, adaptogen herbs, prebiotics, probiotics or digestive enzymes. We’ve seen competitors make you buy a separate vitamin pack for $150 per month! And if you want chocolate flavoring you have to buy a separate flavor packet for an extra $25 a month. If you want metabolism boosting effects and appetite control, you have to buy 2 additional products at $50 each. Once you add it up, this is hardly a “good deal” and it is usually questionably healthy..
To achieve the benefits of Shakeology we’ve seen competitors charge between $250 and $335 per month! $120 doesn’t seem expensive when you realize all of the benefits Shakeology delivers.
SUMMARY:
Formula: 70+ of the healthiest ingredients from whole food sources from around the world (including anti-oxidants, phytonutrients, adaptogen herbs, prebiotics, digestive enzymes, vitamins and minerals VS. protein, fillers, artificial coloring, and isolated glamour ingredients
Winner: Shakeology
Protein Source: Shakeology’s 15g of pure whey protein isolate plus 2g from plant sources VS soy, hydrolyzed whey and/or whey concentrate blend.
Winner: Shakeology
Taste: Rich chocolate or greenberry Shakeology Vs. chemically derived artificial-flavored competition?
Winner: Shakeology
Price: $120 for Shakeology VS. Oops! It’s impossible to compare lesser formulations on price. But if you add in all the separate vitamins and flavoring agents the other companies ask you to buy to (try and) match the benefits and nutritional content of Shakeology, you would easily spend over $300 every month – that’s 2 ½ times the cost of Shakeology! Sure, chocolate milk is cheaper than Shakeology. A vanilla soy shake can be cheaper than Shakeology – until you try to add what Shakeology’s got, and match what Shakeology can do for you, and then it’s no contest.
Winner: Shakeology
The best comparison is results. From weight loss and reduction in cravings, to regularity, to healthier cholesterol levels, to energy, to an overall sense of well being… We give a bottom-of-the-bag money-back guarantee on Shakeology because we KNOW people will be amazed at how they feel. Shakeology is the winner by a total knock out!
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Losing that last 10 – 15 lbs! Insight from Steve Edwards, Beachbody’s fitness/nutrition expert! Here are some tips to help your weight loss:
1. When you FIRST GET UP in the morning… do NOT eat… but instead do 20-30 minutes of LOW IMPACT cardio. This will help your fat store burn more efficient. Then eat about 30 minutes later!
2. Eat every 2-3 hours WITHOUT FAIL! Set a timer if you must!
3. Be on a healthy and clean eating plan. Eating too many or too few calories can keep your body from losing weight. You can use Livestrong.com or myfitnesspal.com to track your food until you get a handle on a routine. There is also the team beachbody club.
4. DRINK LOTS OF WATER!! This will help flush any toxins or fat from your body!
5. Try to do a workout 5-6 times a week for at least 45 minute to an hour.
6. I HIGHLY recommend Shakeology!! I also HIGHLY recommend the recovery formula but ONLY for really REALLY intense workouts!! Shakeology EVERYONE can drink no matter the workouts.
7. Be patient!
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