~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 17 Ways To Test Supplement Quality ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Administrivia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You're receiving this email because you've joined the Radical Health News Service or someone else has joined for you, like a well meaning friend or relative. Or you've been subscribed by a virus who has hijacked your email address and is now spamming the Internet with messages forged from you. You may leave Radical Health News Service by emailing: leave@radicalhealth.com If you're reading a forwarded copy you can join the Radical Health News Service by emailing: join@radicalhealth.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 17 Ways To Test Supplement Quality ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Determining Supplement Quality Preamble - The Purpose of Supplements - Nutrient Density Overview - Physical Detoxification - Emotional Detoxification - Karma & Dharma - Mental & Spiritual Detoxification - 14 Ways to Test Supplements - My 3 Personal Supplement Tests ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Determining Supplement Quality Preamble ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can email me directly for Yemiah and my preferences on the products referenced in this article: david@radicalhealth.com Including: - Goji Juice - Chinese Sea Salt - Angstrom Minerals - Green Foods ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Purpose of Supplements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The purpose of supplements is to increase nutrient density in areas where available foods fail to meet nutrient requirements. We live in a time of dramatic biological stress from accelerated pollution, financial, relationship energies around us. In short, we are the evolutionary fast track right now. Health is a simple equation: Radical Health = High Nutrient Density + Strong Digestion/Assimilation + Rapid, Complete Elimination Increasing Nutrient Density is the single most important factor for health. Do this and given enough time other systems balance. In other words - digestion, assimilation and elimination upgrade as Nutrient Density increases. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nutrient Density Overview ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nutrient Density applies to all substances we introduce into a our bodies: - solids: what we eat - liquids: what we drink - gases: what we breath Interestingly, people who do simple health upgrades such as replacing all salt with Chinese Sea Salt will begin to effect their foods cravings. Just introducing Chinese Sea Salt will begin balancing cellular function. As cells "turn on" at higher levels of performance people's bodies naturally begin to reject any substance which lessens performance, preferring those substances which increase performance. As you upgrade you may experience any number of side effects. These group into two categories - Detoxification and Dharma. Both of these can be a wild ride, so read the next two sections slowly and carefully. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Physical Detoxification ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Detoxification can happen in four main areas: - Physical - Emotional - Mental - Spiritual Most people have some inclination about Physical Detox, as there is much written about this subject. As Nutrient Density increases bodies go through definite cycles. For example: 1) Weight balloons and deflates wildly. This occurs as high quality salt permeates the body allowing more water to be held in solution. As dehydration gives way to massive hydration, weight can balloon as water is retained to dissolve and extract toxins from tissue. Once retained water is saturated with toxins, it is rapidly flushed through the colon, urinary tract, skin, nose and mouth. The climax of this cycling is a final rapid drop in weight where cells squeeze out the final toxins and the entire body contracts to eliminate these. What follows is rapid weight balancing to perfect weight, which includes a dramatic enhancement of beauty, energy and charisma (large, intense bio-electrical field). 2) Energy increases to ecstasy, then collapses into deep depression. As Nutrient Density increases the body registers it now has adequate resources to eliminate stored toxins. Usually bodies Detox in priority of urgency. When resources are scarce, the body time shares between whatever mild Detox is required to maintain life. When Nutrient Density increase is registered, bodies shift into deeper Detox mode. All Detox temporarily suspends as resources are built up to Detox long-term, toxin accumulations. Once there is enough energy built up to deal with one class of toxin elimination, this stored energy is focused on Detox. While Detox suspends there is a sense of elation and expanded energy. When Detox resumes there is a sense of energy collapse and sometimes deep depression. Yemiah and I work with people to allow them to avoid most of this cycling. Tricks include dramatic increase in Chinese Sea Salt, Water, Goji Juice, Angstrom Minerals, Lymph Cleansers (to deepen sleep) and a variety of Super Foods. My rule of thumb is to increase Nutrient Density without Detox symptoms so people remain comfortable and engaged in the health upgrades. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Emotional Detoxification ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Once Physical Detoxification gets under way so does Emotional Detox. Most people are unable to eat a 100% Raw Vegan diet for two reasons: 1) They are eating too much cold, wet food and have to little heating and drying energy coming into their body. This shuts down the spleen, which shuts down the Immune System. At this point nutrient priority shifts to heat and dryness. This is why people who start eating strictly salad and fruit can only maintain for a few days or weeks before they have intense, overriding cravings for: a) Baked potato, butter, sour cream (heat, dryness, fat) b) Chips and Hot Sauce (heat, dryness) c) Mexican dishes with cheese (heat, fat) 2) The second reason is Emotional Detox. Childhood traumas create crystallized patterning at a cellular level. You can find these crystallizations by simply pressing on your body. Try where your teeth meet your gum line, your feet and points along your ribs. Find the pain and push. If you push long enough and hard enough you'll resurface the associated memory. Increasing Nutrient Density is equivalent to pushing from the inside. The purpose of pushing is to destabilize and release the crystallizations. Increasing Nutrient Density does this in every cell simultaneously. This is why it's very important to work with someone who understands how multi-dimensional (body, heart, mind, spirit) detox works. When Emotional Detox kicks in, wild emotional swings can occur. Again ensuring high mineralization (Chinese Sea Salt, Angstrom Minerals), high hydration, high Nutrient Density and deep sleep can reduce these symptoms to barely noticeable. So before you spend $1000s on psychotherapy, finish your Physical and Emotional Detox first. Afterwords you may find you're complete with your psychotherapist and can keep your $1000s. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karma & Dharma - Mental & Spiritual Detoxification ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My definition of Karma is one's personal collections of aversions (what's avoided) and obsessions (what's craved). Burning Karma primarily happens during Physical and Emotional Detox. Afterwords there's Dharma. Dharma loosely translates as life or highest purpose. Once Karmic Detox is complete a type of Mental and Spiritual Detox begins which is very different from Physical and Emotional Detox. Dharma creates "sacred dissatisfaction". Said differently, you'll only feel your best when you're doing your highest. This sensation intensifies as Nutrient Density remains high. Those who make it through Physical and Emotional Detox many times loose momentum here. Any type of life work or relationship which is less than their highest begins to exert increasing pressure for an upgrade. Eventually this pressure must be balanced, either by upgrading or lowering Nutrient Density. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 14 Ways to Test Supplements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are many ways to Determine Supplement Quality. These also apply to Raw Super Foods, which are also Nutrient Dense. Here are a few ways you can do your own testing: 1) Raw-ness: Because of my diet all my tests begin with a Raw check. My rule of thumb is if it's cooked, it's best left outside my body. 2) Whole-ness: Next is a quick check of whether a product is a whole food or whole food complex. If it contains synthetics or isolates, then it's best left out of my body also. Synthetics are substances created in labs in a fractured state. In other words, synthetic B-12, Vitamin-C and Minerals like Chromates mimic natural substances. The body then uses them in place of natural substances creating all manner of problems which occur out of the blue, sometime in the future. Isolates may start with natural substances, however use of heat and chemical solvents extract or isolate one, so-called active ingredient leaving all co-nutrients behind. A great example is refined sugar. Complete, whole sugars are essential to life. Isolate the sugar, throwing away all the minerals, enzymes and co-nutrients and you end up with a substance which creates toxic shock when eaten. B-12 supplements are some of the worst. B-12 is the actual physical substance from which DNA is synthesized. In other words, imagine what's going to happen when a person takes synthetic B-12 every day. Their DNA will be built out of this synthetic. If DNA is flawed in any way, then cells replicate with flaws. Flawed cell replication is called mutation, which we all know is a hallmark of Cancer, AIDs and Lupus. My guess is eventually someone will prove a primary contributer to this entire class of accelerated aging dis-eases is synthetic B-12, found in people's daily multi-vitamins. 3) Smell: A quick test is smell. Cut open a ripe orange or tomato and take a deep breath. Crush an herb like basil or oregano between your finger and thumb and take a deep breath. What you smell is life. Crack open a bottle of most people's daily multi-vitamins and they smell chemical/medicinal. One slight exception is enzymes and probiotics, which are grown in live medium and have no smell or flavor. To test these with smell you'll have to open capsules and pour them in your hand, otherwise you'll just smell the cotton packing and bottle. 4) Taste: This is a more complex test because taste can be strong and beneficial at the same time. As Nutrient Density increases your taste will change. What your taste says no to today, may get a big yes in the future. Be sure to retest often when you're detoxing. 5) After Taste: This test is very interesting. Many foods create strange aftertastes. In beginning stages of Nutrient Density increase this will usually point to detox of heavy metals and chemicals. Also mercury detox from amalgam breakdown if someone still has mercury filings (these are best replaced with porcelain). 6) Heart Rate: Another trick is checking heart rate. Toxic substances throw the body into shock. Adrenalin is dumped into the blood stream to speed up fluid transfer and ramp up elimination. On the other side of the coin, rapidly lowered heart rate can indicate toxic shock also. I once took a teaspoon of Poke Root tincture I made and my heart rate went from 80 bpm to nearly 30 bpm in 60 seconds. Any substance which significantly increases are decreases heart rate should be used with caution. 7) Digestive Gas: Substances which cause gas indicate rapid fermentation and are best avoided. 8) Digestive Pain: Substances which cause pain are a bit more complex than the gas test. To determine if you're ready to do this testing requires some baseline testing to make sure your biological terrain is primarily alkaline pH. Try drinking only Watermelon juice or Young Coconut Water for 36 hours. If you feel no discomfort, then your terrain is primarily alkaline. Flooding a primarily acidic body with these alkaline fluids will produce high school chemistry results. Mix a strong base (alkaline) with acid and you get violent results. Heat, gas and pain. Make sure you pass the alkaline test before relying on Digestive Pain as a test indicator. 9) Tongue Color: This is a challenging test also. Many substances will leech metals and chemicals from the body which result in some very dramatic changes in tongue color. The most dramatic is when the tongue turns black from leaching heavy metals. In the beginning, rapid tongue color changes are good. Just use a spoon or tongue scraper to clean your tongue. Once clean, rapid tongue color changes point to a suspect substance, probably best left outside one's body. 10) Eye Color: Substances which darken eye color usually point to increased toxic load. In beginning stages of increasing Nutrient Density, eye color may darken considerably as toxins liberate from deep tissue storage and are mobilized for elimination. Once eye color stabilizes as light blue, green or gray, darkening usually points to a substance best left outside the body. 11) Iris Changes: These changes relate to eye color and are a bit more subtle. Deepening of black fissures or depressions in the Iris indicate increased toxic load. Again, this is okay in the beginning and suspect after you're operating at your peak. 12) Skin Changes: In the beginning indicates rapid detox, later on a suspect substance. 13) Body Odor: When you can bathe 2-3/month your internal biological terrain is highly balanced. Even profuse sweating produces no odor. Once you reach this state any substance which creates an after taste or body odor, for me is a big no. 14) Passing Out: Anytime a food or supplement causes a massive decrease in energy or "passing out after lunch syndrome", chances are this substance is causing "insulin shock" in the body. This occurs when there is a large component of sugar, including hidden sugars. This includes many animal products. Meat is many times soaked in glucose. This procedure falls under the Trade Secrets Act, so there is no requirement for disclosure. It's bad to be a diabetic and go into sugar shock after eating an expensive steak dinner. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My 3 Personal Supplement Tests ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My personal testing revolves around quality of urine. The urinary tract is a part of the circulatory (blood and lymph) system, rather than the elimination system. The urinary tract does backup the elimination system, so the urinary tract may be called upon to act as a secondary Detox pathway when toxic load in a body exceeds elimination capacity. This is especially true for people detoxing metals and chemicals. Also included are men who eat heavy protein diets (meat, dairy, soy, grains, beans, etc.) which cause two backup Detox facilities to kick into rapid overdrive. Caffeine and uric acid first begin to Detox though urine. If there is too much dehydration, the second Detox facility is seminal fluids. Men who switch to Raw Food have a near immediate transformation of their sex drive as the toxic load which creates continuous genital irritation is relieved. This results in change in sex drive, when arousal tracks the women around them, rather than their own toxic load. When biological terrain is primarily alkaline, the urinary tract no longer functions as a backup Detox pathway and urine quality changes to near odorless/tasteless. My personal testing includes: 1) Urine pH: If my urine feels acidic, I drop the cause from my diet. 2) Urine Smell: If my urine smells strong, I drop the cause from my diet. 3) Urine Taste: This is a bit more complex. First morning urine will be slightly to strongly salty, depending one hydration levels and eating habits form the day before. After first 1-2 urinations, urine becomes tasteless. If my urine taste changes rapidly and the result is less than desirable, I drop the cause from my diet. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Wrapping Up ~~~~~~~~~~~ If you have questions, send them along: david@radicalhealth.com Enjoy your best day ever! - David Favor