FINDING THE CURRENT

One moment, I was paddling my sea kayak right beside my friend Magda. Five minutes later, she was a half mile ahead of me.

We’re pretty well matched for strength and skill. I hadn’t slowed down or stopped paddling. In fact, I’d started paddling harder to catch up, but to no avail.

What happened?

She had caught a current, while I, only a few feet away, was not “in the flow.”

A few minutes later, we were both in a current swiftly carrying us home, laughing at the ease of moving along without even having to paddle.

It was the clearest demonstration I’ve ever had of what it’s like to be struggling, resisting, and making life difficult for myself, versus relaxing into love, appreciation, and confidence in the infinite universe to bring all my dreams to fruition. “How To Find Your Flow”

Even if you’re not an outdoors person like me, you can appreciate metaphors of the power of natural forces like your need to breathe both in and out, gravity, tides, the power of moving water and wind, the cycles of day and night and seasons to apply to other aspects of life.

In this case, I’m talking about the powerful force of health and goodness that is always flowing, and into which you can tap at any moment.

Since my recognition of what my experience could represent, I’ve been paying attention to where I am relative to the current.
When I’m not flowing happily along, I’m looking around for it.
What thought can I reach that will move me closer to that current, and then closer again until I can dig into it with my paddle and let it grab my whole boat?

What I mean by reaching a thought is this: I notice that I don’t feel so good. Then I ask myself what I’m thinking. From there, I search for some other way to think about the subject that feels better.

Here’s an example. I was camping over the weekend and woke with low back pain each morning for three days. When I checked, I realized I was thinking this was a sign of aging — that this was a permanent condition and I’d never again have the young, resiliant body I had when I was younger.

Hmmm. Well THAT’S not a very encouraging thought! What if I recognize that I’ve also been spending a huge amount of time sitting at my computer over the past three years, and my body has simply adapted to that activity?

What if I recognize that I’m only just beginning to shift to a level of activity that feels far more natural for my body, and that it may take a little time for my body to adjust?

What if I smile as I appreciate the strength and agility I have, and how easily and quickly my body responds, builds muscle, loses fat, gains flexibility, slips into sleep?

What if I notice that I’m getting better and better at shifting my thoughts from discouraging ones to encouraging ones, and that I have full confidence that my body is responding gradually to this improvement?

What if I remember that I’ve experienced a miraculous healing right here in my own body, and that there isn’t any reason that I can’t have that experience again?

Ah, life is good!

My back feels much better, too.

What thoughts will help YOU find your way back to the current?

Using Your Inner Guidance System
By: Brian Tracy

You have incredible powers of mind and emotions that give you timely and accurate feedback in every area of your life.

In this newsletter, you learn how to “tune in” to yourself so you can make the right decision in every situation.

Using Your Inner Guidance System
We know that the body has a natural bias toward health and energy. It’s designed to last for 100 years with proper care and maintenance. When something goes wrong with any part of our body, we experience it in the form of pain or discomfort of some kind.

We know that when our body is not functioning smoothly and painlessly, something is wrong, and we take action to correct it. We go to a doctor; we take pills; we undergo physical therapy, massage or chiropractic. We know that if we ignore pain or discomfort for any period of time, it could lead to something more serious.

How to Tell Right From Wrong
In the same sense, nature also gives us a way to tell emotionally what’s right for us and what’s wrong for us in life. Just as nature gives us physical pain to guide us to doing or not doing things in the physical realm, nature gives us emotional pain to guide us toward doing or not doing things in the emotional or mental realm. The wonderful thing is that you’re constructed so that if you simply listen carefully to yourself-to your mind, your body and your emotions-and follow the guidance you’re given, you can dramatically enhance the quality of your life.

Just as the natural physical state of your body is health and vitality, your natural emotional state is peace and happiness. Whenever you experience a deviation from peace and happiness, it’s an indication that something is amiss. Something is wrong with what you’re thinking, doing or saying. Your feeling of inner happiness is the best indicator you could ever have to tell you what you should be doing more of and what you should be doing less of.

The Messenger
Unhappiness is to your life as pain is to your body. It is sent as a messenger to tell you that what you’re doing is wrong for you.

Very often, you’ll suffer from what has been called “divine discontent.” You’ll feel fidgety and uneasy for a reason or reasons that are unclear to you. You’ll be dissatisfied with the status quo. Sometimes, you’ll be unable to sleep. Sometimes, you’ll be angry or irritable. Very often, you’ll get upset with things that have nothing to do with the real issue. You’ll have a deep inner sense that something isn’t as it should be, and you’ll often feel like a fish on a hook, wriggling and squirming emotionally to get free.

Divine Discontent
And that is a good thing. Divine discontent always comes before a positive life change. If you were perfectly satisfied, you would never take any action to improve or change your circumstances. Only when you’re dissatisfied for some reason do you have the inner motivation to engage in the outer behaviors that lead you onward and upward.

Listen to yourself. Trust your inner voice. Go with the flow of your own personality. Do the things that make you feel happy inside and you’ll probably never make another mistake.

Action Exercises
Here are three steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, listen to yourself and trust your own feelings. If there is a part of your life that causes you stress and unhappiness, resolve to deal with it.

Second, identify those areas of your life where you are dissatisfied or frustrated for any reason. What changes should you, could you make?

Third, remember that nature wants you to be happy, healthy, popular and prosperous. Any deviation from those conditions is a signal to you that action is necessary.

It Really Bugs Me

By: Beth Greer, Super Natural Mom

Imagine picking a fruit or vegetable from your garden, spraying it with bug spray, and then handing it to your child to eat. Does that seem absurd? Well, that’s exactly what we do each day with store-bought non-organic produce. The chemicals are invisible, odorless and tasteless. We do it because most of us are unaware.

For example, the teenage daughter of a friend of mine babysat for my eight year old for the first time the other night. I felt comfortable leaving my child with her; I told her to please feel free to help herself to any food she wanted in my refrigerator or pantry. The next day I touched base with her mom who said all went well, except that her daughter had phoned her from my home and exclaimed: “Mom, everything in their kitchen is organic. It’s so weird!”

I was stunned that a 16 year old would find a kitchen filled with healthy, organic* food to be weird and then I realized that “weird” to a teenager usually means something they haven’t seen before, or been told about.

So, here are the top three reasons to choose organic fruits and vegetables:

1. Pesticides are pervasive. Those juicy strawberries now being displayed in the market may look luscious, but they have a dark side. Their red color has been enhanced by a fungicide and they have been infused with methyl bromide, a gas that is injected by tractor into their growing soil. These substances then become part of fruits’ flesh, and can’t be washed off.

2. Organic foods have a higher nutritional value and can help fight disease in our body. An organically grown apple has 300% greater Vitamin C and 61% greater calcium content than a conventional or non-organic apple. Also, the amount of calcium in organic spinach is 7 times greater than in non-organic spinach and the potassium is an astounding 117 times greater in the organic. In addition, researchers found that organic fruits and vegetables have significantly higher levels of cancer-fighting antioxidants than conventionally grown foods

3. Pesticides are toxic to us and the environment. A recent study from Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, found that women with high levels of DDE (a derivative of DDT) in their blood were four times as likely to develop breast cancer as women with low levels. Pesticides are known to harm the human neurological system as well as depleting the Earth’s protective ozone layer leading to more skin cancer.

Warning: peanuts, peanut butter, and coffee have the largest concentration of pesticides of any food.

Given all these facts, why do farmers still use pesticides? Well, mostly it’s because they believe it will save more crops from insects, weeds and disease. But that’s not true: before the 1950s, farmers lost about a third of their crops each year, and today, with over 21,000 pesticide products to choose from and pesticide costs exceeding $4 billion a year, farmers still lose the same – one third of their crops!

So what can you do?

Be an Aware Consumer:Be aware of the high toxicity levels of non-organic fruits and vegetables. Remember that pesticides can disrupt the endocrine system and be carcinogenic as well. Know, for example, that the FDA detected 30 different pesticides on the strawberries they sampled over a two year period; apples had 36 pesticides.

Make Eating Organic Produce a Habit: Go to Whole Foods, The Good Earth, or other health food markets, or buy at local farmers markets (ask your friends or go on the Web to:http://www.cafarmersmarkets.com/findMarkets for a full directory. Be sure you understand the vocabulary in this game: “conventional” means pesticides were used; “Free range” or “free-roaming” or “all natural” are meaningless. “Organic” means 95% of the product contains no pesticides; “100% Organic” means none of the product contains any pesticides. By the way, if “organic” prices frighten you, you might try planting your own garden, or buy a share in a nearby community farm (to find one, go to www.sare.com).

Begin with the foods that you and your family are consuming in the greatest quantities. For kids, consider switching to organic baby food, strawberries, rice, milk, bananas, peanut butter and apples.

Avoid giving children large amounts of the foods with the highest toxicity scores: Since their immune systems are more susceptible to the adverse effects of pesticides, it is especially important to make sure that your children eat as many natural and organic foods as possible.

Maybe as we become better informed and more aware of what we eat, we can pass this information along to our children and the good stuff won’t seem so “weird.”

*The term “organic” refers to food that is grown and processed in a practical, ecological partnership with nature, without the use of synthetic pesticides, fertilizers or herbicides. Organic foods are minimally processed with no artificial ingredients, preservatives or irradiation. And they taste better! Produce is sent to market as close to harvest as possible and may have suffered less nutritional loss by the time you eat it.

About the Author:

Beth Greer has helped thousands of people see possibilities and feel empowered to make changes in their lives through her role as former President of The Learning Annex, a nationally renowned alternative adult education school. She has lived through the process of discovering a tumor, then successfully shrinking it away without drugs or surgery, using alternative methods of healing. She lives in Mill Valley with her husband and 8-year-old daughter. Contact Beth at:supernaturalmom2@aol.com.

The Astounding Benefits of Soy

By: Dr Christiane Northup

As soy has made its way into Western diets, consumers have become interested in the many claimed health benefits. Soy products are often marketed specifically to women in part because of scientific evidence gathered over fifteen years suggesting that soy may be helpful for conditions and diseases associated with menopause, including hot flashes, vaginal dryness, night sweats, and mood swings. In addition, numerous medical journal reports have documented the positive affects of soy’s estrogenic properties on the brain, heart, bones, breasts, and uterus, as well as the skin, hair, and nails.1

More and more evidence shows soy’s many benefits when used as part of a healthy diet. Here’s an update on some of the recent, noteworthy news on soy:

Improved Memory and Brain Function

New studies show that isoflavones may improve cognitive function and protect against degenerative diseases of the brain, such as dementia and Alzheimer’s. For example, results from the SOPHIA (Soy and Postmenopausal Health In Aging) study conducted in 2003 showed that significant improvements in markers such as “category fluency,” “logical memory,” and “memory recall” occurred after 12 weeks when postmenopausal women took 110 mg of soy isoflavones per day.2 An additional study showed improvements in “spatial cognition” a week after participants added soy to their diet in high doses.3

Further, scientists recently confirmed an increase in the frontal lobe executive functioning in women who added only 60 mg of soy isoflavones to their daily diet for six weeks! 4 After twelve weeks, the improvements were even more noticeable. In addition to helping with cognitive activity, soy isoflavones help protect nerve cells in the brain from free radical damage. 5

Only Two Glasses a Day!

In the fall of 2005, findings of a study of more than 24,000 Chinese women were reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Researchers noted that women consuming 13 gmor more of soy protein every day were half as likely to incur a bone fracture as those eating 5 gm or less per day.6 This is exciting, since you can get this amount of soy protein simply by drinking two glasses of soy milk a day or Taking 4Life Research Ltd BioGenistein capsules.

Another study was conducted in which half of the participants (postmenopausal women) were given two glasses of soy milk with isoflavones; the other half drank the same quantity without the isoflavones. Bone loss was measured after two years and four years. The first group had virtually no bone loss at either interval! The second group saw a decrease in bone mass by a little more than four percent—lower than what many postmenopausal women experience. Researchers concluded that although the soy milk they drank didn’t have isoflavones, the daily intake of soy protein still provided some protective benefits for these women’s bones.7

My Recommendation
I recommend 100–160 mg of soy isoflavones per day. Typically, a serving of soy contains 35–50 mg of soy isoflavones and 8 gm of soy protein. Some examples are 1 cup of soy milk, 1/2 cup of tofu; or 3 handfuls of roasted nuts. It’s always best to use a soy product that is made from whole, organic soybeans. The simplest way for the busy modern women is Taking 4Life Research Ltd BioGenistein capsules.

If eating soy isn’t currently a part of your daily ritual, I encourage you to incorporate it into your diet. You’ll be providing terrific protection against oxidative stress, adding a superior form of protein, balancing your hormones, protecting your bones, strengthening brain function, lowering your cholesterol, and so much more!

1. Anderson, J.J., et. al., 1999. Health potential of soy isoflavones for menopausal women, Public Health Nutr, Dec;2(4):489-504.
Celec, P., 2005. Endocrine and cognitive effects of short-time soybean consumption in women, Gynecol Obstet Invest, 59(2):62-6, Epub 2004 Nov 3.
File, S. E., et. al., 2005. Cognitive improvement after 6 weeks of soy supplements in postmenopausal women is limited to frontal lobe function, Menopause, Mar;12(2)193-201.
Jenkins, D.J, et. al., 2002. Effects of high- and low-isoflavone soyfoods on blood lipids, oxidized LDL, homocysteine, and blood pressure in hyperlipidemic men and women. Am J Clin Nutr, Aug;76(2):365-72.
Kritz-Silverstein, D., et. al., 2003. Isoflavones and cognitive function in older women: the Soy and Postmenopausal Health in Aging Study, Menopause, May-Jun;10(3):196-202.
Lee, Y.B., Lee, H.J., Sohn, H.S., 2005. Soy isoflavones and cognitive function.J Nutr Biochem, Nov;16(11):641-9. Epub 2005 Aug 10.
Lydeking-Olsen, E., et. al., 2004. Soymilk or progesterone for prevention of bone loss—a 2-year randomized, placebo-controlled trial, Eur J Nutr, Aug;43(4):246-57. Epub 2004 Apr 14.
Omoni, A.O., Aluko, R.E., 2005. Soybean foods and their benefits: potential mechanisms of action. Nutr Rev, Aug;63(8):272-83.
Sonee, M., et. al., 2004. The soy isoflavone, genistein, protects human cortical neuronal cells from oxidative stress, Neurotoxicology, Sept;25(5):885-91.
Zhang, X., et. al. 2005, Prospective cohort study of soy food consumption and risk of bone fracture among postmenopausal women, Arch Intern Med., Sep 12;165(16):1890-5.
2 Kritz-Silverstein, D., et. al., 2003. Isoflavones and cognitive function in older women: the Soy and Postmenopausal Health in Aging Study, Menopause, May-Jun;10(3):196-202.
3 Celec, P., et. al., 2005. Endocrine and cognitive effects of short-time soybean consumption in women, Gynecol Obstet Invest, 59(2):62-6, Epub 2004 Nov 3.
4 File, S. E., et. al., 2005. Cognitive improvement after 6 weeks of soy supplements in postmenopausal women is limited to frontal lobe function, Menopause, Mar;12(2)193-201.
5 Sonee, M., et. al., 2004. The soy isoflavone, genistein, protects human cortical neuronal cells from oxidative stress, Neurotoxicology, Sept;25(5):885-91.
6 Zhang, X., et. al. 2005, Prospective cohort study of soy food consumption and risk of bone fracture among postmenopausal women, Arch Intern Med, Sep 12;165(16):1890-5.
7 Lydeking-Olsen, E., et. al., 2004. Soymilk or progesterone for prevention of bone loss—a 2-year randomized, placebo-controlled trial, Eur J Nutr, Aug;43(4):246-57. Epub 2004 Apr 14.

About the Author
Christiane Northrup, M.D., a board-certified ob-gyn physician, is today’s leading expert on women’s health issues. Her new Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Women special airs in March 2007 on PBS. She just published The Wisdom of Menopause Journal. Check out the latest health products that over these problems: www.axel.4healthdirect.com

Should You Send Free Product
Samples To Your Prospects?

A great question arrived at my desk today via the “ASK MIKE!” box at the bottom of this newsletter regarding the use of product samples which I’ve pasted below for you here…

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“Hey Mike, Love your articles by the way. I make my new reps subscribe when they sign up under me. I think you have great advice. My business has the world’s first certified Organic Cosmetics, Body Care, and Probiotic range of products.

In my attempts to get new distributors or preferred customers, I send out FREE samples of the products (there are about 8 and cost me $1-1.80 USD + S/H). I also send brochures, business cards, etc. I only send a package after they’ve thoroughly checked out my website and have contacted me through my site so I know they’re interested.

It just seems that people are interested in trying before buying. Makes Sense! My site is set up that they have to leave a contact number, so I immediately call them to get “that foot in the door”. I establish a relationship, send the package, and call/e-mail in about a week to see what they thought.

They all love the products. But, I am not getting the orders. I know the prices are high, is that it? Should I stop with the samples? It’s only been 2 months with this company and I have made 4 sales. Thanks,

- Heather

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Well Heather, like I said, that’s a great question and I’m sure it’s been pondered by thousands of other network marketers out there, so I wanted to share my opinion on that topic today…

So should you use samples or not?

Well the answer to that question is deceptively simple…

Is the cost of buying and mailing samples justified by the return on that investment?

Does mailing samples make you money?

If the answer is yes, they use them. If it’s not, then don’t.

But of course we can, and should, go a little bit deeper…

This is the comment that concerns me: :

“It just seems that people are interested in trying before buying. Makes Sense!”

Actually, whenever you hear, “I’d like to try it out first”, from a prospect, you’re in trouble.

The “try it out first” comment is a symptom of poor marketing, and it’s an excuse used by people who want to say no, but who don’t have the courage to come out and say it directly.

They don’t want you to feel rejected, so they accept the sample offer which allows them to reject the product instead of you which is why your closing ratio is so poor. They had no intention to buy from the beginning.

If your marketing was strong enough from the start, you wouldn’t need samples. Your prospects would be whipping out their wallets and happy to pay full price for your products.

Brochures produced by the company aren’t going to cut it. You need to have a truly persuasive, “pawn the TV, sell the dog, and get a second job just to buy this product”, sales letter.

The problem here isn’t the product or the samples themselves, it’s the framing and positioning of the offer. It’s weak and needs to be sold better.

I’d rather frame the value of my product like this…

“There’s no way I can send a free sample of this product, it’s much too valuable to just give away like that. This is a cutting edge product that’s coveted by everyone who uses it. Besides, you’d never get to really experience its amazing benefits if you only tried it for a few days. The best I could do is offer you free shipping on the one you’d like to start using today… Which one would that be? Great… Where would you like it shipped? Great… Would Visa or MasterCard be better for you?”

You can see the difference when you compare it to “Hey don’t worry, I’ll send you some free samples that you can try.”

One product is positioned as the best with value and a price tag to match. The other holds so little value, you have to try and give it away for free.

It’s all in the marketing my friends…

Now on the other hand, there are a few GREAT uses for samples if you have the right kind of product.

Samples are at their most effective in two scenarios…

1: When your product offers a unique benefit that can be “experienced” quickly.

For example, there’s an entire MLM company that’s grown from a seed to a weed in less than two years and their entire marketing model is based on giving out samples of their powdered energy drink mix.

Samples are perfect for this product because the very noticeable benefits/results can be felt and “experienced” within minutes.

The timing here is critical… Results within minutes… Not days, weeks, or months.

2: The second scenario is a long-term approach and it is used to change the buying habits people have towards commodity type products like cosmetics, soaps, and other body care/home care items that don’t offer an immediately noticeable benefit.

One of the hardest things to do is to changed the buying habits of a person, which is why all of the internet malls failed years ago, and why it’s taken Amazon.com almost 10 years to turn a profit.

Typically, the solution is a “try-before-you-buy, 30-day trial”.

You see this offer on TV all the time… Exercise equipment, vacuums, mattresses, etc.

You give a prospect the normal product, not a small sample, and let them use it for 30 days.

Why 30 days? Because that’s how long it takes a human to form a new habit which is exactly what ends up happening.

The 30-day trial is always combined with a monthly auto ship program, so as soon as the trail period is up, their new shipment arrives automatically.

Bam… Now you have a new, loyal customer.

So that’s my take on using product samples. They can be very effective if used with the right product.

Until next time,

Four Essentials for Happiness
By: Brian Tracy

You may have a thousand different goals over the course of your life, but they all will fall into one of four basic categories. Everything you do is an attempt to enhance the quality of your life in one or more of these areas.

The Key to Happiness
The first category is your desire for happy relationships. You want to love and be loved by others. You want to have a happy, harmonious home life. You want to get along well with the people around you, and you want to ear n the respect of the people you respect. Your involvement in social and community affairs results from your desire to have happy interactions with others and to make a contribution to the society you live in.

Enjoy Your Work
The second category is your desire for interesting and challenging work. You want to make a good living, of course, but more than that, you want to really enjoy your occupation or profession. The very best times of your life are when you are completely absorbed in your work.

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The third category is your desire for financial independence. You want to be free from worries about money. You want to have enough money in the bank so that you can make decisions without counting every cent. You want to achieve a certain financial state so that you can retire in comfort and never have to be concerned about whether or not you have enough money to support your life style. Financial independence frees you from poverty and a need to depend upon others for your livelihood. If you save and invest regularly throughout your working life, you will eventually reach the point where you will never have to work again.

Enjoy Excellent Health
The fourth and final category is your desire for good health, to be free of pain and illness and to have a continuous flow of energy and feelings of well-being. In fact, your health is so central to your life that you take it for granted until something happens to disrupt it.

Peace of Mind is the Key
Peace of mind is essential for every one of these. The greater your peace of mind, the more relaxed and positive you are, the less stress you suffer, the better is your overall health.

The more peace of mind you have, the better are your relationships, the more optimistic, friendly and confident you are with everyone in your life. When you feel good about yourself on the inside, you do your work better and take more pride in it. You are a better boss and coworker. And the greater your overall peace of mind, the more likely you are to ear n a good living, save regularly for the future and ultimately achieve financial independence.

Control Your Attention
Life is very much a study of attention. Whatever you dwell upon and think about grows and expands in your life. The more you pay attention to your relationships, the quality and quantity of your work, your finances and your health, the better they will become and the happier you will be.

Action Exercises
Here are three things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, take time on a regular basis to think about what would make you really happy in each of the four areas.

Second, set specific, measurable goals for improvement in your relationships, your health, your work and your finances and write them down.

Third, resolve to do something every day to increase the quality of some area of your life - and then keep your resolution.

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Unlocking Your Creativity
By: Brian Tracy

Creative thinking can be stimulated by two things; intensely desired goals and pressing problems. Your creative capacities need something to hone in on and your job is to provide it.

A Continual Stimulus for Ideas
Intensely desired goals, clearly defined with detailed plans for their accomplishment act as a continual stimulus for ideas to achieve them.

Visualize Your Goals
To trigger your imagination, write out a clear description of your ideal end result or goal. Be clear about the goal, be flexible about the process. Think about it, visualize it as realized over and over. Project your mind forward to the picture of the realized goal and then look back to the present.

Define Your Goals Clearly
Think on paper. Make a plan and then work on the plan, updating it, changing it, adding to it as you think of new ways to work toward the goal. The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

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The Proper Approach to Problems
The second stimulant to creativity is pressing problems. The key to idea generation when you face a problem is to approach the problem confidently, expectantly, with the attitude that there exists a logical, practical solution just waiting to be found.

The most creative people have a relaxed attitude of confident expectancy that causes their minds to function in original and imaginative ways.

Diagnose Your Problems Accurately
Define your problems clearly in writing. Accurate diagnosis is half the cure. Sometimes you will find that you are dealing with a “cluster problem,” one that is made up of several smaller problems. Your job is to sort them out and then go to work on each one separately.

Break Up the Clusters
In many cluster problems, there is a core issue surrounded by a lot of symptoms. Creative thinking requires that you separate the core issue, and then focus on resolving that before worrying about the smaller problems.

Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to stimulate your creativity.

First, be absolutely clear about your goal. Write it down and make a plan to achieve it. Think of different ways you could accomplish it.

Second, define your problems clearly and then make a list of all the possible solutions to your problem. Take action on at least one idea immediately.

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To understand the whole story, let’s start with “Free Radicals”.

A “Free Radical” is a highly chemically reactive atom, molecule or molecular fragment with a free or unpaired electron.
Why we don’t like “Free Radicals”? Because they can damage healthy cells! These molecules are unstable and highly reactive. Cascade of chemical reactions occurs when a free radical reacts with another molecule in order to gain an electron. The molecule that loses an electron to the free radical then becomes a free radical, repeating the process until the energy of the free radical is spent, or the reaction is stopped by an antioxidant. In biological systems, this cascade can damage important molecules like DNA.

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Some of the symptoms of aging such as atherosclerosis are also attributed to free-radical induced oxidation of many of the chemicals making up the body. TF Cardo is a special formulation targeted to Heart health.

Free radicals are produced in many different ways such as, normal metabolic processes, ultraviolet radiation from the sun and the breakdown in the body of spoiled fats. So, we can’t avoid them, but there is a way to stop them — antioxidants.

So how does it work, and what are the benefits?

Antioxidants work by donating an electron to unstable free radicals, antioxidants neutralize their harmful effects, and they remain still stable after donating the electron.

Research suggests that consumption of antioxidant-rich foods reduces damage to cells and biochemicals from free radicals. This may slow down, prevent, or even reverse certain diseases that result from cellular damage, and perhaps even slow down the natural aging process. This is the basis for the free-radical theory of aging.

How do we know which food is more effective than another in terms of antioxidant efficiency then?

Here we introduce ORAC, which stands for Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity.
ORAC is a way to measure the antioxidant capacity of a food. Foods with high ORAC values are desirable for their ability to inhibit free radical activity. The ORAC measurement was developed by a scientist at the National Institute of Aging in 1992 and has proven to be a valuable tool in quantifying health benefits associated with consuming fruits, vegetables and other antioxidant-containing foods and supplements.

The range of ORAC for common fruits was around 1.40 (watermelon) to 95 (cranberry).
A very recent paper by Schauss et al. published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry reported an extremely high total ORAC value of 1027 for a freeze-dried fruit pulp and skin powder from the Acai berry (Euterpe oleracea) (Schauss et al. 2006). This is the highest ORAC value ever reported for a fruit or vegetable to this date.

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