On Herbs, Supplements, Food, and Disease
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- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:20:59 -0700 (PDT)
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Originally published June 22 2008
Health Expert Jon Barron on Herbs, Supplements, Food and Disease
by Kevin Gianni
(NaturalNews) This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's The
Healthiest Year of Your Life, which can be found at (http://
thehealthiestyearofyourlife.com) . In this excerpt, Jon Barron shares
on herbs, supplementation and the scary truths about today's foods and
disease.
The Healthiest Year of Your Life with Jon Barron, creator of Base Line
Nutrition and author of Lessons From the Miracle Doctors.
Kevin: Sure, you talked about disease and using herbs to help. When
does someone know they need to have herbs? I mean, is it just for
disease or can people use these things for cleansing? I mean, I think
a lot of people get confused as to when they should cleanse or when
they should take herbal supplements.
Jon: Okay. Let's actually give a quick look at the Base Line of Health
program. The base line of health is sort of a summary of what I
learned from virtually all of the doctors. Doctors like Dr.
Christopher and Dr. Shultz and guys like that who are doing programs
that basically treat people as a whole entity and where it starts is
you have to remove the toxins from the body. Basically we are being
poisoned all the time now by choices we make and by things we have no
control over. There are over a 100,000 new chemicals that are brand
new, never existed before that have been introduced into the
environment in the last hundred years and they are out of control. You
get them in your
water, your drinking water. Something a lot of people don't know is
that virtually all tap water that you drink contains traces of
pharmaceutical drugs.
Kevin: Yeah.
Jon: All of the heart medication and cancer medications, so on, and
people getting chemo
when they urinate it goes out into the water. There is nothing in the
treatment system that is designed now to remove those things. The
amounts are small and authorities say that they shouldn't affect you
they are so small, but no one really knows what the effect is of
having these things every day for years.
Kevin: And, we don't know if they have a half life or anything like
that, do we?
Jon: No, we know nothing. It's like a grand experiment going on right
now. I think we are
getting strong indications of what the results of that experiment are,
but number one is you've got to clean those things out and that starts
for most people with intestinal cleansing and detoxification. Not
because it's most important, but it's sort of for two reasons. One,
it's the area that we tend to focus the most abuse from the foods we
eat. I'll give you one great example of that. When I was giving a
talk, a pro bono talk, in the Virgin Islands a few years back to high
school kids, I was trying to talk about health and nutrition and I
could see their eyes just rolling up into the back
of their heads. They were bored out of their minds. I said, "all
right, let's give you
a different example guys, how many of you eat pizza?" The whole crowd
said, "yeah!"
"Have you ever thought about what you eat?"
"Huh?"
"Okay, have any of you ever helped your parents put up wallpaper?"
About half of them had and I said, "what did you make the wallpaper
paste from? It's made from white flour and water, okay? So your crust
is basically wallpaper paste. Let's talk about the cheese. Have any of
you ever
used Elmer's glue? Whose picture is on the front of Elmer's glue?
Elmer the bull."
Kevin: Yeah.
Jon: Why? Because all of the forerunners to Elmer's glue is now made
from synthetics but in the early days, all of the glue similar to
Elmer's was basically made from casein, the stuff that makes cheese
stringy. So when you eat pizza you are eating wallpaper paste and
Elmer's glue. What do you think the odds of that coming out cleanly
are? That's one of the reasons we have to do intestinal cleansing.
Over the years, we so abuse that intestinal tract. You've got to clean
it out and all the
other cleanses depend on it. Because things like the liver cleans dump
out to the bile duct and if you have any blockage in the intestinal
tract, the toxins you flush from the liver can't make it out
through the bile duct. They back up into the blood stream and make you
feel really ill. After you clean out, you need to do things like
rebuild the beneficial bacteria. Beneficial bacteria provide huge
functions. Not only in terms of digestion, but they're actually
responsible for about 60% of your immune function. The simple fact is
most people have almost none left.
Kevin: Wow.
Jon: Why? Antibiotics and chlorine primarily. You drink tap water and
you get chlorine in
the water. What is the purpose in the chlorine? To kill bacteria. When
you drink, it does kill the bacteria in your gut and makes your pores
a vacuum and it tends to fill that space with bad guys. The other is
antibiotics. If you are buying commercial dairy or meat, it's packed
with antibiotics. That's designed to, by its name, kill bacteria. So
most people are in a state of dysbiosis where the beneficial bacteria
is virtually gone and they have large amounts of E. coli and other
things that at least contribute to bad conditions, such as Crohn's
Disease, IBS, ulcer and colitis, colon cancer.
Colon cancer was virtually unknown 60 or 70 years ago and today it's
the second leading cancer
among men and women combined, after lung cancer. The next thing you
need to do, you want to start
supplementing with enzymes because most people eat... man is the only
animal that eats cooked processed food at sustained temperatures of
over 118 degrees to destroy enzymes. You have to make up that loss,
because all food that you eat, if it's in a raw state, has enzymes
necessary for some digestion in the food. You cook it, they're gone.
You have to make up the difference. What
happens is you tend to bump high amounts of stomach acid to compensate
and with high amounts,
your pancreas goes into overdrive to produce digestive enzymes. In the
end, you burn out your ability to produce hydrochloric acid.
That's of course, along the way, you have produced so much that you
burned your gut out and had acid reflux and you burn out your
pancreas' ability to produce enzymes. You basically lose the ability
to digest food over time. That's one reason people, as they get older,
don't get nutrition out of their food. You have to change your diet.
You cannot keep eating the same stuff that people are eating and think
you are going to be well. Most diseases today are self inflicted. One
of the great ones is diabetes. Diabetes is a huge, huge epidemic right
now. A couple of years ago the U.S. Government came out with a stat, a
prediction that said that every child born in the United States today
and that
was from 2003, I think they did this, that any child born today would
have the odds of being diabetic at 50%. All right, so one in three,
50% is either Black or Hispanic.
Kevin: Wow.
Jon: And that's a self inflicted disease.
Kevin: Wow.
Jon: Type two diabetes use to be called adult onset. They got rid of
the adult onset, because of diet –- kids are getting it now. You're
finding kids –- 16, 17, 18 –- who are diabetic and pre-diabetic. All
you have to do is understand a sugar soda is just under a teaspoon of
sugar for every ounce. So, when you see those kids walking around, 10
year olds with those 32 oz big gulp sodas from the AMP and mini marts
and Seven Eleven, there is just under a cup of sugar in that thing.
Kids are
having one or two of those a day.
Kevin: That's amazing.
Jon: That diet needs to change. There are so many things about a diet
we can talk about –-
supplementation. I've heard doctors say that you don't need to
supplement if you just eat a balanced diet but what diet are they
talking about? Are they talking about the foods that are grown today
or that were grown 50 years ago, because there is a huge difference?
The green revolution certainly has produced more food but there is a
simple logic of mathematics here. You can't grow more food out of the
same land without thinking you are going to trade something off.
That's what we are doing, we are
trading off quality for quantity. Foods today don't have the same
amount of vitamins and minerals they had 80 years ago. In fact, it
takes you 80 cups of spinach to get the same amount of iron that you
use to get from one cup of spinach.
Kevin: Wow.
Jon: Wheat has half the protein it once had. So a lot of the nutrients
are going out of food
that were once there.
Kevin: Is this for organics, as well?
Jon: Organic is an interesting animal. All organic means is that they
are using organic
fertilizers and they are not using pesticides, but it doesn't tell you
how much organic fertilizer is being used on a field or whether
they're remineralizing the soil and there are farms that they use five
tons of organic fertilizer on an acre and there are those that I call
super organic that use up to a hundred tons.
To read the rest of this transcript as well as access more information
on creating and living a healthy lifestyle and hear from other health
experts just like Jon Barron please visit (http://
thehealthiestyearofyourlife.com) .
About the author
Kevin Gianni is a health advocate, author and speaker. He has helped
thousands of people in over 85 countries learn how to take control of
their health--and keep it. To view his popular internet TV Show "The
Renegade Health Show" (and get a free gift!) with commentary on
natural health issues, vegan and raw food diets, holistic nutrition
and more click here.
His book, "The Busy Person's Fitness Solution," is a step-by-step
guide to optimum health for the time and energy-strapped. To find out
more about abundance, optimum health and self motivation click here...
or you're interested in the vegan and raw food diet and cutting edge
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