Yonder Willow Wellness

Do you know someone who has problems with acid blood?  What you drink can have a big impact on your blood pH level.

Why should you care about blood pH?  Our bodies are designed to live happy and healthy in a narrow, slightly alkaline pH range.  If we get much outside of that range we start to get sick, develop chronic problems, and will eventually die if we don’t correct it quickly.

Our bodies will do everything in their power to maintain our pH level.  If the blood is acidic, then it uses certain minerals, like calcium to buffer the acid in the blood, and those minerals are stored in the bones.  So if the body becomes too acidic, and there isn’t enough calcium available in our blood, then the calcium has to come from the bones.  I don’t want to mention specific diseases, but you probably know the one that is caused by not enough calcium in the bones.

There are two solutions to acidic blood.  More calcium and less acid.  I recommend both, and that brings us back to what you drink.  Soft drinks, whether you call them soda, pop, or whatever else, are HIGHLY acidic.  So acidic that I have heard that people use them to clean the terminals on car batteries.  So acidic that they are used to scour the floors in warehouses.  So acidic that it takes about 30 glasses of water to neutralize it.  Don’t worry, I know how hard it is to give these up.  My father used to work for Coke and then he worked for Pepsi.

A lot of bottled water is acidic too.  Not as bad as the sodas but not good when you are looking for something to help you get alkaline.  Reverse osmosis, which is used by most purified bottled waters, leaves the water so pure that it then pulls carbon dioxide out of the air, forming carbonic acid in the water.  Go ahead and test it with a test kit if you don’t believe me.  I was surprised the first time I did it.  A good water filter with mineral rocks will clean the water and put enough minerals in it to make it alkaline and taste good.  It will also save you a fortune by not buying soda and bottled water.

Raw veggies will help you alkalize too.

Wayne Woodworth
Check out my free water filtration report.
I can also recommend a quality, tested bone density supplement and a calcium supplement.

Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor.  I don’t claim to know everything.  I don’t diagnose problems or prescribe remedies.  Consult your doctor if you think you’ve got a serious problem or before you make any radical changes to your diet.

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How is your immune system doing for you?  Right now I am watching to a video from David Wolfe, who is considered to be one of the leading authorities on nutrition,  about how important it is to take care of the immune system.  He spent a good part of the video talking about a specific class of herbs that are very important to boost the immune system.  These herbs are the medicinal mushrooms.  He said that these are the mushrooms that grow on fallen trees.  What they do is work to concentrate certain minerals that the trees have absorbed throughout their lifetime, which can exceed 100 years.

He mentioned 5 specific mushrooms to look for.  Reishi, Maitake, Shiitake, Agaricus, and Coriolus to look for when looking to boost your immunity.

David Wolfe also mentioned how they also contain a lot of protein and can affect other systems like the nervous system and brain function as well as the blood and heart.  Very cool stuff.

If you would like to see the video, go to http://www.longevitynowprogram.com/news/immunity/.

I take a mushroom supplement that has 4 of the mushrooms David talks about plus 10 more for a total of 14 medicinal mushrooms.  Click here for the Immunity supplement.

Wayne Woodworth
I am immune

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I have always heard that reverse osmosis water purification systems are wasteful, but I had no idea how wasteful they really were until today.

I work with a network marketing company that sells water filters among other things, so I decided to do some research to put together a free report about how to pick the right water filter for your home.  Of course, I’m hoping that when I’m done all of the evidence will say you should buy mine, but I’m trying to keep an open mind about what I find.

The report isn’t finished yet but I had to share what I found out about how wasteful reverse osmosis systems are.   And that is that household systems are only 5-15% efficient.  That means that up to 95% of the water going into the system goes straight down the drain.  If you get 5 gallons of water from a household reverse osmosis system, you may have flushed from 40 to 90 gallons of water down the drain.  I was absolutely astounded.

Fortunately, industrial systems, which have higher pressures,  are closer to 48% efficient, which is still terrible, but at least they get almost half of the water to use.

Wayne Woodworth
My filter is nearly 100% efficient. Sometimes I spill.

UPDATE: The water filtration report is finished and you can find it here.

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Do you have a shower water filter?

You probably make sure that your drinking water is filtered because you know that you don’t want to drink chlorinated water.  Some people even shower after swimming to rinse off the chlorine from the pool (which is pointless because the chlorine has already been absorbed by the skin and there is probably more chlorine in the shower water, unless it is filtered).

Chlorine is absorbed very quickly and easily by the skin, especially when it is heated.  Heat opens the pores and relaxes the skin.  The heat in a shower makes it easier for the chlorine to escape the water and become a free gas that we breathe in as well.

Chlorine can cause all sorts of problems, such as dry skin and hair.  It can irritate the eyes and the ears.  Breathed in, it can irritate the breathing passages, especially if you already have breathing challenges.

If you would like a recommendation, the shower head I use does a great job at neutralizing the chlorine in the water so that your shower water is clean and safe.

Wayne Woodworth
Actually getting clean in the shower

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I’m with a network marketing company that, among other things, sells a nutritional juice product.  I received an email this morning from my upline that made me think about artificial additives in our food.  Someone had asked the Distributor Relations department of our MLM company if they could share the difference between our juice product, Ciaga, with the juice product from a competitor.  It turns out that the competitor’s juice, which contains a lot of Vitamin C, also contains Sodium Benzoate as a preservative.  It turns out that sodium benzoate can interact with vitamin C and form Benzene, an organic solvent that is known to cause cancer and liver damage.

My point here is not to bash the other company and their product, which is why I have not named them, but to point out that we need to be very careful when buying food to really think about added chemicals and how they may react with each other and the food they are added to.  I strongly encourage you to look at organic and all-natural versions of food.  They may be more expensive in the short term but can save you a lot in the long-term.

By the way, Ciaga is  100% natural.  97% juice and 3% fruit solids with no artificial preservatives and no added water or sugar.

Wayne Woodworth
Only the good stuff please

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