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One of our holistic practitioners told us his clients are experiencing the worst allergy season in the past 20 years. During this allergy-time of year, many canine clients are coming down with a particularly deadly disease called Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia (IMHA). 50% of those diagnosed with IMHA die within the first two weeks of diagnosis. Out of the remainder, there is up to an 80% fatality rate. We currently have more than 2-3 times the amount of emergency overnight orders to fill. These emergency orders take 2-3 times as long to fulfill and delay normal orders. I am sure you would want this special attention too if your child or beloved pet was dying from such a fatal disease. Some holistic vets suspect the causes of IMHA could be vaccinations, flea & tick or heartworm treatment. See our July's e-newsletter for "wholistic" options to flea & tick or heartworm treatment.

 

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Freedom From Illness Blog

• Do you wish to learn more about what is truly holistic?
• Do you want to know why we spell holistic with a "w"?
• Do you want to know why we say 90-95% of everything advertised as holistic is NOT?
• Do you want to know why some so-called "holistic" supplements do not work?

To find the answer to all these questions, go to Russell's new personal blog "Wholistic Answers" at www.RussellLouie.com. Russell is blogging about the wholistic lessons he learns in our wholistic practice, new scientific research supporting holistic modalities and critical holistic news everyone needs to know about (such as Genetically Modified Organism food being served in fast-food restaurants today).

Iris's Cancer Returns

Our cat, Iris, was diagnosed just before Christmas with advanced intestinal lymphoma. Russell's blog, RussellLouie.com/wholistic-lessons/lymphoma, will detail what we did to reverse the cancerous condition for 6 months with all our "wholistic" practices. In July, Iris stopped eating again and our holistic vet said the lymphoma had returned with increased thickening of her intestinal walls. She said even chemotherapy would not have bought us 6 months, so we did really well (plus no side effects). We were not about to give up on Iris as she told us she was not ready to leave. So, we enlisted the services of another holistic vet that does homeopathy. Dr. Jan Facinelli recently completed a course on cancer homeopathy therapies. While we are not "out of the woods" yet, Iris has made an amazing second comeback. Our first vet calls Iris, the "miracle" cat. You can read what we did this second time around and Iris's progress at
Margaret's blog: The Pursuit of Wholeness.

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How Long Must I Take Your Product?
By Russell Louie

We frequently get asked, "How long must I take or give to my child/pet your holistic product?" This question is a natural one coming from a drug or supplement paradigm (experience). But most of the holistic products we offer are whole food products and NOT drugs or supplements, so this question is not relevant in this context. 

Drugs and almost all supplements treat only symptoms. One buys Product A for arthritis, Product D for digestion and Product E for the eyes, etc. This is simply treating the symptoms NOT the WHOLE body. Drugs and supplements provide the body with a high therapeutic amount of active ingredients to cause an effect (Cause and Effect principle used in allopathic or Western medicine). The advantage is quick elimination of symptoms. The disadvantages are possible side effects and never balancing the original cause of the disease, thereby creating a dependency on the product (thus the title question of this article). In our fast-food, instant-gratification oriented society, everyone wants quick results in 30 days or less. While drugs and some supplements can offer that there is a price to pay.

 Disadvantages of Supplements:

1. Supplements make the body dependent on this external source of nutrition.

2. Supplements rarely fix the original cause of the symptom.

3. Supplements have side effects.

While some symptoms are so serious or debilitating necessitating using drugs or supplements just to be able to function, if this is not the case then our "wholistic" preference is to use whole food products first to see if the body can attain permanent balance and Freedom From Illness without the crutch of supplements. Here is an example. 

Supposed you had symptoms of dry mouth, increased thirst, dizziness, confusion, fainting, palpitations of the heart and the inability to sweat. Your doctor diagnosed you as being dehydrated and prescribed a fancy sports water with electrolytes, minerals and supercharged with oxygen. Your symptoms are eliminated in 24 hours. Would you stop drinking water the rest of your life now that your symptoms are gone or would you be proactive and start drinking more bottled/filtered water on a regular basis to prevent  getting dehydrated again? The supplement to get rid of your symptoms is that fancy, expensive sports water. The whole food product to permanently balance the body "wholistically" is the bottled/filtered water drunk on a regular basis. That is the difference between using a supplement to treat the symptoms and a whole food product to balance the body permanently.

If you take one of our whole food products and your symptoms go away does this mean you are "cured"? Not necessarily. In general, it takes the body many years of degeneration or deficiency before symptoms show up. If your symptoms happen to go away within one week of taking one of our superfood products consider that a good sign. You are on the right track towards Freedom From Illness. But your body cannot reverse the degenerative process or years of a nutrient deficient diet in only one week. We suggest taking a high enough amount in the beginning to manifest benefits and establish balance within the body. When you have experienced the absence of symptoms over a long enough time to know your body is stable, then gradually decrease this amount down to a level where the body can still be maintained without symptoms.

If you discontinue one of our whole food products after one week and your symptoms come back, does that mean you are dependent on this product for life? It all depends on the individual's situation. Your body may have accumulated a ten year depletion of Vitamin X because of a dietary deficiency. Our whole food product with over 5,000 individual nutrients supplied Vitamin X and now the body is happy. But one cannot make up a ten year depletion in one week, so it will take time and a change in diet to correct this imbalance. Another scenario is a genetic defect. Suppose the body has trouble manufacturing nutrient X because of a glandular defect caused by heredity. While superfood products do work on the cellular DNA level, this reversal cannot occur overnight. The rebuilding and regeneration process can take months or years to reverse itself.

How long must you take our holistic whole food products? It all depends on your (or your child or pet's) body, genetics, diet, lifestyle and ultimate goal. Taking a cheap Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) supplement when you have a cold or flu is just treating the symptoms. If you just want a cheap, quick solution and your symptoms temporarily go away, then your goal has been met and you are done (until you get sick next season). Eating whole food oranges to prevent the cold/flu might seem more expensive, take more effort but ultimately will let you achieve Freedom From Illness rather than supplementing the symptoms. Our BioSuperfood, BioPreparation, ALPHA-G, Seacure, NingXia Red and wolfberry products are all whole (super)food products and NOT supplements that address symptoms. Do you wait for symptoms to show up or blow up before taking action? Whole food products offer Freedom From Illness rather than just treating the symptoms. How long you take these superfood products is entirely up to you depending on your goals.

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