New Products: Soothing Greens and Immune Health Formula!

This kat's been beating the same drum all year: good immune health means healthy cells and a healthy gut!

Now we're introducing an amazing new gut-friendly product: Soothing Greens, which is loaded with superfoods, powerful immune boosters, a quite substantial amount of soothing slippery elm and banana powder, and a totally shelf-stable/food-stable probiotic!

For the full scoop on gut health and all that Soothing Greens has to offer, check out our Soothing Greens White Paper. In the meantime here's a quick overview.

Our New Soothing Greens Formula - To Help Your Belly Heal From Too Many Holiday Indulgences

Slippery Elm - works to soothe and nourish the intestinal tract and has been studied in conjunction with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Its mucilaginous properties aid the throat, stomach, bowels, and colon to absorb toxins and regulate colonic bacteria for effective elimination (it is used for issues of constipation and diarrhea alike).

Alfalfa Grass - a green "superfood," alfalfa contains digestive regulation enzymes and chlorophyll -- both important in healing and maintaining a healthy intestinal tract, liver, and skin. Alfalfa is known to bind and neutralize carcinogenic agents in the colon as well as allergens in the gut.

Barley Grass - another green "superfood," barley grass is rich in protein and calcium and is considered to normalize metabolism. In addition to supporting healthy cholesterol levels and being a powerful antioxidant, barley grass helps the gut by acting as an anti-inflammatory and providing a heavy dose of anti-bacterial chlorophyll. Barley grass neutralizes heavy metals and its small molecular weight allows it to be absorbed directly through cell membranes to purify and build the blood, repair cellular DNA, and promote anti-aging.

Spirulina - this blue-green algae "superfood" packs 21 amino acids, essential fatty acids, and a wide range of vitamins and minerals. It's known as an important detoxifier and is also known for offering highly-digestible protein and bioavailability of nutrients, making it a good energy booster.  Spirulina's high chlorophyl levels helps it draw out toxins and it is often used with malabsorption issues. It's alkaline properties help balance acidic foods like coffee, sugar, and alcohol, while its immune-stimulating properties make it an important anti-cancer ally.

Dried Banana Powder - Bananas are one of nature's best antacids and gastric lining protectors. Bananas offer terrific defense against ulcers, pack a powerful punch of potassium, and include all the vitamins, minerals, aminos and essential fatty acids as well! Bananas, by the way, are considered an alkalinizing fruit. 

Larch Arabinogalactan - The name sounds like a super hero, and no surprise. Larch works as a prebiotic to feed healthy bacteria,. Larch also boosts general immune health and immune regulation efficiency (it is considered a powerful immune modulator). Larch also helps produce critical short-chain fatty-acids, which support healthy elimination, gastrointestinal lining protection, and overall gut health. Larch now accompanies many cancer protocols for its tremendous immune boosting benefits. 

Ganeden BC30™ Probiotics - patented and completely shelf-stable spore-forming probiotics.  Ganeden probiotics produce L+ lactic acid, which supports formation of good bacteria in the gut and forces out unfriendly, disease-promoting bacteria.  No more fuss about refrigeration, worrying about dead bugs.  Also no more worrying about when to take your probiotics. The BC30 bugs are like special forces, able to survive and do their job, no matter how harsh the environment! Yeah! 

Citrus Bioflavonoids - powerful antioxidants and potent immune and cardiovascular health boosters. Bioflavanoids also are considered helpful in healing allergic conditions, which often start in the gut and the digestion process.

Brown Rice Protein - gentle, easy-to-digest protein to nourish your trillions of cells and support them in any immune battle.

Soothing Greens was designed in collaboration with Dr. Rodier, who, as many of you know, is all about improving gut health, so we're all excited about this product (especially Cindy, who is on an allergy elimination and gut healing diet)!

To buy the ingredients in Soothing Greens separately, you would be forking over a lot more of your precious greenbacks than with our integrated formula.

For more on Soothing Greens, or to get started soothing your gut now, visit out product page.

Our New IMMUNE HEALTH Formula - Great for Holiday Travel & Cold Season Too!

Since it 'tis the season for giving (germs, that is), we're also introducing an impressive immune booster formula -- Immune Health.

Many of you have requested the following ingredients individually, so we decided to combine them into one powerful, year-round immune enhancing formula with a whopping 120 servings:

• Beta Glucan (1,3/1,6 - D glucans) (100mg)

• N-Acetyl-Cysteine (100mg)

• Quercetin (100mg)

• Green Tea Extract (100mg)

• Elderberry Extract (100mg)

• Resveratrol (50mg)

More on this formula next time!  Meanwhile, if you shopped for each of these ingredients separately, you would pay $60-$120 in total.

And, one bottle will last you up to two months, depending on whether you're fighting something off or just working on prevention while traveling and hanging out with germy little tykes over the holidays.

Cindy's Blog: Low Glycemic Diets, Enzymes & Live Blood Analysis

Since her return from Hippocrates, Cindy has still been blogging on all her great learning:

Low Glycemic Diets Trump Low Fiber Diets, etc. 

CIndy used to be all about the fiber. Just add fiber--for satiation, cholesterol control, and and slowing down digestion to reduce blood sugar spikes. While she's still a big believer in fiber, she's more interested in low-glycemic diets these days, and the research is bearing this out.

According to St. Michael's Hospital & University of Toronto research on 210 diabetic patients:

"Lowering the glycemic index of the diet improved glycemic control and risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD)."

More on the glycemic food index your health...

Enzymes, Raw Food & Omar's 

Enzymes are a part of every living cell. Without them, vitamins and minerals would be inert. With enzymes, the work of converting raw nutrients into effective energy and information for the body's use is quite literally sped up.

More on the importance of enzymes and raw food...

Blown Away by Live Blood Analysis at Hippocrates  

A lot of web sites dismiss the value of live blood analysis. But Cindy was blown away today by the analysis she received, which included assessment of that day's blood draw, the original blood draw 3 weeks ago, and rings of blood indicating the last 3, 5 and 10 years in her life. The process is likened to reading the rings in a tree, assessing times of drought and stress and times of lush growth.

More on live blood analysis at Hippocrates...

Buh Bye to Original Constant Health and Upcoming Study

A labor of love, the original Constant Health is now on clearance. We have the new inventory in with improved flavoring (no lo han guo, an acquired taste in no-calorie sweeteners, apparently), double the protein, double the fiber, and a long-handled scoop (the men complained about the short-scoop more than the women!). We're also going to be starting a clinical study at Dr. Rodier's clinic.

More on the new Constant Health and clinical study...

Don't forget, the better-tasting, higher protein Constant Health formula is here -- and for the same great price, too! Constant Health now offers:

• Twice the protein (now there is a full 15g of gentle brown rice protein in every scoop)

• Twice the fiber (now there is 5 grams of fiber in every scoop!)

• No added sugar (we ditched the dextrose thanks to Bill Henderson's folks who protested even the small amount of sugar in the old formula)

• No lo han guo (we also ditched the caramel-tasting, no-calorie, lo han guo, an herbal sweetener, which many people loved but equally as many hissed about)

• Health-friendly, all natural sweeteners (we replaced dextrose with stevia and xylitol)

• *Organic, antioxidant-rich cocoa (for our *Rich Chocolate flavor we used organic, non-Dutched cocoa, which yields many more health-promoting phytonutrients than your typical cocoa powder. At 4 grams per serving, our chocolate flavor not only tastes richer but also packs a substantially higher value of antioxidants per scoop)

• Long-handled scoops (no more Mr. Stubby Scoop that requires bribing small children to do the scooping) ^..^

To order the new double-protein and better-tasting formula with the long-handled scoops now:

Rich Chocolate

French Vanilla