Six Swaps For Your Best Health

I’ve seen and read a lot of media stories and advice columns on how to drop weight since the new year began. They all seem to have a lot of warnings about what not to eat. But I don’t think it’s a very good idea to constantly deprive yourself. Even worse, I see a lot [...]

My Tropical Island Tea

All around me was the greenest green I’d ever imagined, spilling over with flowers and vines and herbs in every direction.

Bali is the lushest place I’ve ever been, with plants on top of plants, and flowers and herbs everywhere.

It was a perfect day outside – sunny and not too hot.

My guide and new friend Westi was sitting with me in a kind of covered shelter with a big brown picnic table area after our tour of his incredible herb garden.

“You were telling me about holy basil…” I said. “… and you called it…”

What Your Eyebrows May Be Telling You

I’ve helped thousands of women look and feel more beautiful at my clinic over the years.

And I know it’s important to you to keep your eye area looking nice and clean with proper eyebrow grooming.

But there’s something important you should know.

Lab Creation Loose in Your Vitamin E

It’s a shame that journalists with no medical knowledge keep trying to scare you about vitamin E.

First they reported vitamin E caused lung cancer, and now it’s prostate cancer.

One patient of mine who had prostate cancer, John M., wrote me saying, “Help! I take 600 IU a day. I am in the middle of pouring through the information and am wondering… could it possibly be that the push for this vitamin has lead to prostate cancers? I am perplexed.”

Today I want to help you cut through this mess, and show you what’s really going on with vitamin E, and how you can benefit the most from it.

I Admit, I Forgot About Bananas…

It got me before I could swat it.

Now I had the biggest welt I ever got from a bug bite. I knew it was going to itch like crazy… the mosquitoes here are huge.

I showed my guide and laughed a bit. The tall, lean Ugandan said, “Wait…”

My Favorite Delicious Juice

“Let me look at some of these…” I reached out and put the soursop fruit right up to the lens of my video camera.

I said to my friend Westi, “I love soursop. I wish I could grow it in Florida. But the tree dies if the temperature gets below about 40 degrees.”

Westi and his wife Lelir were taking me on a tour of their garden deep in the mountains of Bali near the little town of Ubud.

I’ve written to you before about his endless turmeric plants and hundreds of aloe, basil, and other healing plants growing there.

Here’s What I Drink Instead

It doesn’t matter how healthy or thin you are, reaching for a sugary drink is still dangerous for your heart. Four times as dangerous as not drinking one.

New research presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association finds that women who drank only two sugary drinks a day were nearly four times as likely to have high triglycerides, the best predictor of heart risk for women.

They were also significantly more likely to have impaired blood sugar levels even when not eating or drinking.1

The “T” Factor To Your Heart’s Rescue

I wrote my first book The “T” Factor in 2000. In it, I described testosterone as the king of hormones, and showed how not having enough can be deadly, but having more of it can help you live longer and better.

It’s only taken conventional medicine 12 years, but they’re finally starting to realize what I’ve been saying all this time. I just read a new study where researchers show that not having enough testosterone can be deadly for your heart.

They looked at almost 4,000 thousand people and followed them for over five years. Those who had the least free testosterone were 71% more likely to die from heart disease than those who had the most.1

The Mysterious Healing Fruit

They seem like the most normal fruit. You can get them year round, they’re cheap, and they’re always the same. So you buy a few, cut them up, sprinkle the juice on fish or use it in a salad dressing.

Lemons are no big deal, right?

Well, not so fast.

Turns out, lemons have a number of unique qualities that set them apart.

They are unusually charged with a purer concentration of negatively charged ions, or anions, than any other fruit. Some scientists think this might be why lemons are so good for your digestion. Lemons balance the other foods and help your body extract energy from them.

Pass The Turkey

Happy Thanksgiving from my family and staff to you and your family.

I hope you’re going to have a great meal today. And don’t let all those politically correct “health” experts ruin it for you. The Thanksgiving meal we eat in America is one of the healthiest you can have. It’s a treasure trove of benefits.

Let’s take a look at just a few of the foods we eat on Thanksgiving:

“I Thought You Loved Me”

“Want a bite?” The beautiful young girl smiles at her boyfriend as she pulls a frozen pop out of the picnic basket.

“I thought you loved me.”

“I do. So take two bites.”

“It’s got high fructose corn syrup in it.”

“So what?”

“You know what they say… that… it’s… it… uhhhhh…” He goes silent.

“What? That it’s made from corn? That it has the same number of calories as sugar? Honey… it’s fine in moderation.”

The boyfriend smiles with relief and takes the popsicle. “You only brought one?”

Cue the happy music and the choir singing in the background.

The people who make high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) haven’t let up in their TV advertising. They’re still out there claiming their chemically produced concoction is the same as natural sugar.

Stay Strong All Winter Long

I was just reading my nutrition journal and I found something just by lucky accident that is very important this time of year.

In a new study just published this past Friday in The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, they took men with low vitamin D and gave them a daily supplement. Only 1,000 IU a day was enough extra vitamin D for the men to have consistent, significant improvements in muscle strength.

Vitamin D benefits your muscles because it regulates muscle calcium, muscle cell growth, and muscle fiber size. It also prevents degeneration and protects against insulin resistance so you can have more energy in your muscles.

The reason I say it’s important this time of year is because we just pushed the clock back an hour and that has a drawback. Less time to get enough vitamin D – the “sunshine vitamin.”

Why This Bottled “Health Food” Isn’t

You hear it all the time, and everybody seems to be in 100% agreement. I’ve never met a doctor who didn’t tell me that it’s great for you. It’s like a default position that you should be drinking more fresh-squeezed fruit juices.

But wait a minute… let’s take a step back and look at juice. Is it really as healthy and natural as people say?

The juice producers love to tell you how “healthy” their juice is. How it’s like a multivitamin, and you should have some every morning. The cartons scream at you that it’s “100 percent natural” and has “no added sugar” or “no preservatives.”

And what’s not to believe? Seems simple… you pick the fruit, squeeze the fruit, and put the juice in a container, with pulp or without. Delicious and freshly squeezed… right?

Not really.

It’s Not Organic… But So What?

Have you heard what’s been happening? Organic advocates, groups and media outlets are up in arms because breakfast cereal producers like Kashi and Mother’s were caught switching from organic ingredients to “natural” ones.1

There are endless articles about how this or that cereal has almost no organic ingredients. There’s even a giant report from the Cornucopia Institute called Cereal Crimes.2 It describes how manufacturers are now deceiving you by lowering their organic content without telling you, but still charging high organic prices.

They’re missing the point.

I Like My Burgers Without Oven Cleaner

“Today we’re going to beat our record with a 350-pound burger.”

I turned on the local news last night to catch the weather forecast – and there was a three foot tall hamburger staring back at me.

It sells for $2,000.

“It’ll have 20 pounds of cheese, 15 pounds of tomatoes, and 10 pounds of bacon. And it comes with a free drink.”

I chuckled at that. But all I could think of looking at the reporter and the restaurant owner was, if you only knew what was in all that commercial burger meat, you might be amazed for a different reason…

My Bali Friends’ Most Impressive Healing Root

Westi walked under the soursop tree and past the lemon basil and dug up the root of a tall plant with his knife. “This is white turmeric.” Instead of the orange color that I was used to seeing with turmeric I encountered in Peru, this was a curiously yellowish white. “What do you use that [...]