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Tuesday August 17, 2010

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 ASK LENA HEALTH Q & A EDITION!
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The month is flying by so fast I can hardly keep up with the day much less the date!

Today's question is one that a lot of you may be asking if you are smart enough to be taking daily minerals supplement! If you are not taking them you should be and to see why Read Mineral Uses!

Reminder: Take charge of your health today or it will take charge of you when you least expect it!

Don't forget to pass on the newsletter announcement to anyone you feel will read it.

I am not a doctor or dentist and you should not think of me as one!! My years observing life and health of the many people/patients around me and the contradictions of the traditional medical world's idea of treating - prescription domino effect - while watching and also taught those same schooled methods that aren't relieving illness but creating far more health problems than they help is where my answers are based. Those same conventional medical professionals aren't telling people how to get healthy or how to prevent illness. They can't as they haven't been taught healing, only putting a bandage on symptoms, which led me to look for something to change
that premise for myself and those around me who ask. In looking outside the Westernized medical profession I found and continue to find alternatives that really work to create health and longevity - when adhered to - beyond anything the traditional medical world can do...

Ask Lena Health Questions and Answers is for your information and education only and in some instances to give you a different perspective on a particular problem! My wish for you, in the use of the information gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but in  addition to... Even though I daily watch people become healthy with the information imparted here nothing works 100% of the time for 100% of people but it is a fact that when natural herbal/nutritional alternative health modes are used more than 80% can be cured or reverse health issues...

I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope that will be your attitude
as well! 

Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
Lena

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> QUESTION OF THE WEEK<
> THOUGHT FOR THE DAY<
> MOTIVATOR STEVE GOODIER<
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QUESTION:

Hi Lena,
 
I started taking the Life Transfusion Ionic Liquid Minerals a few months ago but it has occurred to me that maybe a person could take too much liquid minerals, or have too much of one or two minerals in their body? Since lead and such are minerals can't we get too much? How much is too much minerals?
 
Is there such a thing as a "healing crisis" where I would feel worse before feeling better?
 
Thanks,
Jan
 
ANSWER:
 
Thanks for the questions Jan... I must say that these questions would require a small book to fully cover but I'm going to try and do a very short mini version of the most likely answers and hope it helps you! First a bit of must know to help understand the answers!

Starting with a short mineral fact; Minerals enable the body to quickly and accurately perform its activities. A minerals balance is absolutely necessary for the proper balanced composition of body fluids, the formation of blood and bone, and the maintenance of healthy nerve and brain function. A body does not make minerals as it does vitamins so we have to get them from our foods or supplement. The lack of such balance - 90% of people lack that balance - sets the body up for all kinds of illness and disease as well as makes it impossible for your body to absorb and utilize the small amounts of nutrient vitamins in your foods... Without proper minerals the body cannot utilize what is put into it therefore creating the 68% obesity factor announced last month!

To answer your questions;

Yes, a person can take too much liquid minerals but it would be extremely hard to do although not impossible... Balanced minerals is the key to taking the correct amount. If you take a minerals supplement that is less than the 84 minerals and trace minerals that our body requires then you are more likely to get too much of certain ones as they are not balanced. More than 4 Tablespoon of Life Transfusion Ionic Liquid Minerals daily would qualify as too much of even balanced minerals, unless an illness exists then that would not be considered too much, depending on the type of illness. An overdose would most likely occur when a healthy person perceives they need more than the recommended maximum dose of 1 1/2 to 2 teaspoons a day without an existing health problem. Or if the liquid minerals being consumed contains less than the balanced 84 minerals and trace minerals the body requires then an imbalance can occur...  Or an unsuspecting illness exists that can cause a build up?

Yes you can have too much or one or two minerals in the body... Lead, iron and copper being the most common ones...

Lets cover lead: This overload is usually associated with the environment. This can happen in areas where heavy smog is created by automobile traffic. This is getting to be less prevalent in areas where unleaded gas is used in the autos but far too much still exist. Taking balanced minerals would not be a problem unless the following exists; Lead poisoning is prevalent in areas of older housing/homes - built before 1955 - that still contains lead bearing paint and/or interior lead pipes... Also lead danger is found in areas where lead containing gas leaks have occurred causing a build up of soil contamination. Or where old oil/gas refineries causing lead to be leached into the ground from holding ponds and reached the water table putting it into water wells. This continues to happen where oil wells are still functioning in different parts of the world that have oil refineries as well as areas where occasional leaks from distribution holding tanks oil/gas exist...

Iron overload (hemochromatosis); can be caused by the environment around you, the body's inability to utilize iron or the body's organs not functioning in conjunction with one another thereby overproducing iron as well as eating processed foods daily that have chemical produced iron added... Also the medical world is contributing to this problem with prescribing iron in diagnosed anemia... Yes, the patients are anemic, but the iron collects in storage instead of going into hemoglobin, creating people who are iron-loaded yet will blood test will show them anemic.  They need iron removed despite the anemia.  The anemia should be treated with D and B vitamins, especially D3, B12, B6 and folic acid.  Many patients with anemia are dying of iron overload, and some are hastened to their death by their physicians who give iron. Blood banks seem to believe that hemoglobin and iron are the same.  They have prepared lists of high iron foods to give out to donors with low hemoglobin.  They invariably tell these people:  "Your iron is low."  Life threatening misinformation since even a small amount of excess iron can damage heart and brain and other storage sites in the body and lead to heart attack or stroke. Anemia does not mean you always need more iron, quite the contrary, usually means you don't but you do need a balance of minerals and lots of B vitamins! Those minerals needed are; Magnesium, Selenium and Zinc! Many cases of anemia are being corrected with the simple addition of balanced liquid minerals along with D3... My daughter and I being two of those people. My entire adult life was spent being told I was anemic and needed added iron, as was my youngest daughter yet when we started taking the balanced minerals complex anemia was no longer an issue!

Then there is copper; Copper overload may occur because of exposure to unsuspected sources of environmental copper on a regular basis. Copper water pipes, for example, have been in widespread use in this country for the past three decades and they can leach copper into the water supply if the water is too acidic. In addition, copper compounds often are added to municipal drinking water making it important to have a three phase water purification/filtration system on your water sources... Then copper is an element of a spray used on produce to prevent fungus and algae growth. Another cause is dental fillings -- both the newer amalgams and some gold alloys -- also are significant sources of copper. They can release slow but steady levels of copper into the system, as can copper intrauterine devices. Widespread use of estrogen medications such as the birth control (BC) pill is one of the main reasons for the prevalence of copper overload today, according to Rick Malter, Ph.D., a psychologist from Hoffman Estates, Illinois, who has been treating copper-related mental and emotional health problems for 18 years. The "BC pill" is known to increase copper levels and it has been prescribed for the past four decades. Women, consequently, have become increasingly copper-toxic, Malter points out, and copper-toxic women unknowingly pass copper excess onto their unborn children. So these factors should be taken into account when taking minerals supplement and adjusted accordingly...

With you taking Dr Garland's balanced Life Transfusion Liquid Minerals it would be an difficult to overload, as they are mined from the deep sea and are the same identical makeup as your blood plasma - should be if the body is healthy - making it possible for your body to only utilize what it needs and slough off any excess... Your body will slough off the excess as it does with most natural substances.

If you suspect that you're taking too much of a vitamin or mineral, don't stop completely. Nutrition experts suggest cutting back to about half of your current dosage. Your body has adjusted itself to handle a massive dose, so if you stop altogether, it could trigger a deficiency and an illness. As a general rule, it's best to take up to five times the Recommended Daily Dose (RDA, USRDA) for minerals and vitamins in order to consume sufficient amounts to keep your body at its optimum working order.  RDA's have been so weak that the amounts suggested will not help you.

If for some reason you have become overloaded with any one or two minerals there is a healthy removal technique that works and will bring balance back to your system quickly and safely without side effects. That removal treatment is Chelation IV Therapy... I have no alignment with these people but the information is invaluable on chelation IV therapy!

Question: Would there be such a thing as a "healing crisis" where you would feel worse before feeling better?  The answer to that is Yes, there are side effects for those who are severely toxic and even to those who are only mildly toxic.  Symptoms of a detoxing reaction can be one or more of the following; lethargy; temporary all-over muscle aching include watery stools; stomach cramping; mucous or other discharge; a coated, pasty tongue; light-headedness upon standing and in general; headaches; and flu-like symptoms in general. Healing crisis would require more than one of those symptoms to be classified as such. A detoxing reaction/healing crisis may also take the form of old symptoms that have been previously suppressed. You may think you are sick. However, this detoxing process is absolutely essential to achieve health and should not be suppressed as it will end once your body is sufficiently detoxed to allow it to function properly.
 
Sadly many people will stop their herbs or detoxing mode when symptoms occur and they never achieve great health! Even sadder is that they will continue a prescription medication that has far worse side effects, simply because their doctors prescribes them and they think they will be safe. Chemical side effects are life threatening where alternative herbs, diet  or nutrients are not! If you want to read what I've written about those side effects Click Here
 
1. The body has to detox and rid itself of the illness producing toxins before it can start to rebuild and become balanced and in doing so will trigger feeling worse.  Some will be flu type symptoms. The most severely toxic person will even have skin eruptions that appear on the body as acne type sores on top of feeling like the flu has overtaken them...  I have written about this very thing so if you are interested read
2. The body has been so malnourished for so long that when it starts to build up to a good balance you will feel so very different and not always perceived as good feelings until the different organs begin to balance and function together as they should...

Hope this answers your questions.
Lena

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Thought for the Day
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"Safe consumption of Calcium requires more than just magnesium: It also needs manganese, boron, silica, strontium, usually digestive enzymes, often additional betaine hydrochloride, and ALWAYS vitamin D." If taken alone without at least magnesium and Vitamin D it can cause arterial wall damage!
 

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MOTIVATOR
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DO YOU HAVE AN ANCHOR?

Though I have never seen it, I'm told that the Niagara River has a couple of interesting signs upstream of the famous falls. There is one by the side of the river visible to daredevil boaters that reads, "Do you have an anchor?" Then just downstream is a second sign that says, "Do you know how to use it?"

"Do you have an anchor?" I have found that a solid anchor is indispensable to one who intends to live life fully. To have an anchor is to be centered and well grounded. It is to have a vital spiritual base.

"Do you know how to use it?" For no amount of faith is enough if it is not used.

We all come to what has been described as the "Red Sea place" in our lives. That is the place where there is no way back and no way around. We have to go through.

You know the places I mean ... we find ourselves up against a critical loss, an irreversible setback or a course of action that cannot be changed. There is no way back and no way around. We have to go through.

Even a small ship can venture into deep waters and weather major storms if it has an anchor. But it is likely to be tossed about and even capsized if the anchor is not used.

What will you do when you get to the next "Red Sea place" in your life? Do you have an anchor? Do you know how to use it?

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