Countless claims have been made to the wellness benefits of colon hydrotherapy, aside from improving colon health. Among these is the idea that receiving colonics regularly is a good way to manage your weight. Get ready for a skinnier you, right? Well, sort of, but not exactly. Fat vs. waste When you receive colonic irrigation, the service flushes out excess fecal buildup from your colon. As a result, many clients walk away several pounds lighter and feeling much better. Of course, it’s important to note that the service itself doesn’t remove fat tissue. If you’re looking to shed a few pounds in order to maintain a fresh, ongoing sense of well-being, receiving a colonic is something you’ll want to do on a regular basis. Don’t expect to walk away as though you just had liposuction, though. Toxicity Many experts believe there is some long-term correlation between keeping the body-toxin-free and staying thin. Unless you’re eating an all-natural, fully organic food diet, there’s almost certainly going to be a decent level of toxicity in your body — especially in your colon. “One or two well-formed bowel movements every day is one of the best ways to give toxins a one-way ticket out of your body,” says Dr. Mark Hyman, of drhyman.com. “Scientists recently uncovered a surprising and disturbing fact: environmental toxins make you fat and cause diabetes,” he says. That makes it important to optimize your body’s ability to rid itself of toxins. Of course, drinking plenty of water is also an easy way to aid in cleansing, but it isn’t always enough, and a colonic is an effective way to achieve results. In this roundabout way, there’s evidence to show that the service not only helps people feel great, but it’s also an aid in weight management, too. Want to learn more? Don’t hesitate to visit us at our detox spa in Palos Verdes or Santa Monica, today. You know all about colonics, but something you may have missed in the colon hydrotherapy literature is the word “coffee.” Some colonic irrigation therapists instill the caffeinated substance into the colon after a standard colonic procedure to further cleanse the colon of toxins, promoting colon health. Why coffee? Coffee is an interesting substance in that it increases the production of bile in the liver. And, due to coffee’s high levels of palmitic acid, it also increases glutathione production — one of the body’s most important purification enzymes. Why not just orally? Dr. Ben Lynch thinks ingesting coffee the “standard” way, although pleasant, doesn’t give your body the chance to properly process toxins. “By performing a coffee enema,” he says in a post on Seeking Health, “you are skipping the body’s normal absorption of caffeine. “By introducing enema coffee into your colon, specifically your sigmoid colon, the antioxidants, theobromine and caffeine are effectively absorbed by the portal venous system.” Imagine the impact of a coffee enema after colonic irrigation. Other medical authorities weigh in Many MDs agree that coffee enemas are both effective and safe. According to Dr. Lawrence Wilson, MD at the Center For Development, “the coffee retention enema is really quite simple, very safe when done properly, highly effective…” There are also many doctors who were once skeptical of the procedure, but who now even perform them on themselves. “I do daily coffee enemas,” says Dr. Michael L. Johnson of drfibrosupport.com. ‘”In spite of my initial skepticism and reluctance, I went ahead with them, and when I got over the initial messiness and innate resistance, I quickly saw the benefits of coffee enemas.” Interested in learning more? Don’t hesitate to contact our detox spa in Palos Verdes location, today. Massage therapy doesn’t always require a hard touch. In fact, when treating the lymphatic system, a very light touch is all that’s needed. And this low-pressure lymphatic massage therapy can do wonders for the body. The body’s cleansing tool The lymphatic system, part of the circulatory system, is one of the human body’s purifying mechanisms. It transports lymph, a liquid containing white blood cells, throughout the body, ridding it of various toxins. This essential system transports about two to three liters of lymph around the body every day, aiding in purification. It’s comprised of lymphatic vessels, little conduits that carry the fluid and filter plasma. Tool break from time to time Like countless other bodily systems, the lymphatic system isn’t able to serve its purpose 100 percent of the time. It’s not uncommon to develop lymph build-up in lymph vessels — preventing normal flow. While those with mild build-up might feel tired and lethargic, others with a more serious lack of lymph flow might have a condition called lymphedema – which can be quite painful. A delicate procedure The lymphatic system relies on contractions of the smooth muscle cells in the lymph vessels, or peristalsis. Skeletal muscles also play a big part. Due to the shallow location of much of the lymphatic system just under the skin, only a very small amount of pressure is necessary for lymphatic drainage massage. The therapist will usually perform the procedure going in circular motions, with less than 9 ounces per square inch directly on the skin. It’s a painless procedure, even for those dealing with very painful conditions like lymphedema. According to the Standford University School of Medicine, manual lymph drainage is very effective in promoting lymph flow for lymphedema. And if it’s good for a pressing condition like that, it’ll certainly be effective for those simply feeling lethargic, too. Have questions or want more lymphatic information? Don’t hesitate to visit us at our detox spa today. Colonic irrigation isn’t just a passing fad. It’s been around for hundreds of years, and that’s because practitioners and patients haven’t stopped raving about its ability to promote wellness. And while you might already be aware that the service gets rid of constipation and makes the digestive system more effective, it also has some hidden benefits. Here are a few that can really boost your colon health. Enhanced Energy After having undergone a series of colonics, many patients feel revitalized — that they can get more things accomplished during the day. And they often report greater stamina in the gym, as well as the bedroom. Improved brain function When toxins buildup in the body, it becomes increasingly difficult for the body to naturally absorb essential vitamins. Without such vitamins, the brain can’t operate at optimal levels. So while it might not be very apparent, toxins in your colon can actually impair your ability to think. A colonic treatment can help restore critical cognitive functions like concentration and memory. Increased fertility One of the more frequently discussed pros of colonic irrigation is weight-loss. The bottom line here is that fat tissue can impair a couple’s ability to become pregnant. Fat is estrogen-based, and although high levels of estrogen are beneficial for a women’s chances of conceiving. Too much estrogen is not. In men, higher levels of estrogen have been known to impair an ability to achieve an erection, and can decrease sperm count. All in all, colon cleansing rids the body of toxins and harmful chemicals, and that’s beneficial for the sperm as well as the egg. Whole-body wellness The truth is that the treatment isn’t only good for the colon, the brain, or the uterus. Positive results have been seen throughout the body — from the digestive system to the circulatory system. Would you like to learn more about how our detox spa services can improve your health? Contact us today in Santa Monica or Palos Verdes. While it’s true that there are a bunch of different things you can do to cleanse your body of toxins, one of the best is right under your nose … or should we say feet? It’s a detox foot spa. It’s all the rage right now in the world of detox programs, and for good reason. Users find detox foot baths to be ultra-relaxing and highly effective in the detoxification process. How it works The service is a simple one: it involves soaking the feet in warm salt water for about a half-hour within an electronic foot spa machine. Almost immediately after starting the bath, the water changes color. Contrary popular belief, the color change is not itself the toxins leaving the body. It’s due to a chemical reaction between the salt water and the electricity. Instead, you’ll see debris forming in the water, and those are the toxins cleansing from your body. Is there evidence to support it? Absolutely. For example, according to an article published by the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, urine pH levels were measured in a subject prior and post-treatment. And, just as was suspected, the subject’s pH levels showed lower acidity after the cleansing procedure was completed. Oncology Specialist, Christine Adamo, of the Pacific College Alumna mentions that although the procedure is very effective, ridding the body of toxins for the long-haul doesn’t happen overnight. “You can’t just come in and ‘get fixed’,” she said in an article. “You have to take ownership in your health. The work I do with a patient has to be part of a team effort.” Coupling the bath with other methods In order to achieve maximum detoxification results, it’s recommended that, along with the spa, you also: * Maintain a natural, organic food-based diet * Get plenty of sleep * Exercise regularly * Drink water throughout the day For more information on detox foot baths and other services we offer, don’t hesitate to give us a call today. It’s no secret; we’ve all had trouble going at some point or another. Whether it’s a random occurrence, or you’ve had difficulty with it for a while, it’s understandable to wonder about the cause of your irregularity. While it’s true to say that everyone’s body is different — colons aren’t all identical in their ability to process foods — there are a handful of best-practices from which virtually anyone can benefit. Here are some ways, including colon hydrotherapy, to promote colon health. Stay hydrated The human body is about 60 percent water. So, it should come as little surprise that in order to properly regulate all of the body’s essential functions, adequate hydration levels are crucial. Digestion is no exception to this rule. Millions of enzymes live and work inside the colon, and they need both warmth and moisture to stay alive and break down food. Nurturing these microorganisms with 8 glasses of water a day will help keep you and them “going” with ease. Plan on going If there’s no pain, and if the general urge to go just isn’t there, it tends to slip many people’s minds — they just don’t bother with it. Meanwhile, waste is being backlogged in the colon, making it increasingly difficult to go when you really feel like you have to. To resolve this, try attempting to go about once a day – regardless if the urge is present. It’s not recommended that people hurt themselves pushing, but safely being proactive about cleaning out the colon is never a bad thing. Colon hydrotherapy Colon hydrotherapy, also called colonic irrigation, is a procedure performed by trained technicians designed to rid you of constipation issues. Essentially, a long tube is gently inserted inside the rectum, sending warm, sterilized water through the colon to cleanse out toxins. In turn, this cleansing process breaks up hard waste. If you’re interested in learning more about colonics, contact us at our detox spa in Palos Verdes or Santa Monica. Massages are typically a positive experience. If done well, the massage itself feels great, and the post-massage sensation is usually one of extreme relaxation. Despite the way they might make you feel, not all massages are able to change cosmetic aspects of your body. But lymphatic massage has that capacity. Where a standard massage focuses on deep muscle tissue, lymphatic massage is able to increase lymph circulation fluid through gentle touch. On the face of it, it may seem as though a traditional massage would be more effective in changing cosmetic factors (due to its firm application), but it’s not really getting to the root of the problem. And for many men and women, that problem is cellulite. What is cellulite, exactly? Cellulite is fat found inside the skin — not underneath it like standard fat tissue. And, as you probably know, it creates an unsightly divot-like appearance. The condition can have multiple causes including water retention, deformed connective tissue, and toxin accumulation. The relevance of lymphatic drainage massage Since lymph massage specifically targets “shallow tissue,” it has been found to be an ideal application for treating cellulite, a condition which happens to be found closer to the surface of the body. For instance, according to an article published in Dermatology Research and Practice, 10 subjects ages 25 to 59 with cellulite were treated using lymphatic massage. After the procedure was completed and the subjects were evaluated and the researchers discovered that, “This technique involving lymphatic system stimulation is efficacious in the treatment of cellulite.” Simply put: it works. How long do the results last? The evidence is still out as to exactly how long a few procedures will have a positive effect in reducing cellulite. That’s why it’s recommended that patients see a lymph massage therapist regularly — to keep the condition at bay. Interested in seeing what other services our detox spa has to offer? Visit our location page and don’t hesitate to give us a call today. Today, editor Sam Biser saves you from another dangerous dogma… the dangers of a low-salt diet. There are several myths about health and wellness throughout the world. And the amount of salt we should consume falls into that category. “Don’t be conned by the crusade against Salt!” says Biser. “I have found impressive medical evidence which explains why a low salt diet will NOT help you live longer. But it CAN give you strokes, damage kidney and brain function, and loss of sexual ability (Impotence and frigidity)!” Once again I must blow the cover on a medical and health food crusade that’s being jammed down your throat. I’m referring to the forty-year old health lie that avoiding salt will help you to live longer. The health food establishment has swallowed this one whole – like Jonah in the belly of the whale. They solemnly tell you that avoiding salt will help lead you into the land of everlasting health. For most of you it definitely will NOT. What they don’t tell you is that…
The prevailing viewpoint of modern medicine is that salt is a general poison, like alcohol and tobacco. Salt has been vilified as the great devil at the dinner table. People have been taught since childhood, that “Salt causes high blood pressure.” Books on salt-free cooking are more popular than ever. If you call up the American Heart Association, they will send you brochures on the dangers of salt. The health media are always looking for simple, easy answers that don’t require much thinking. Therefore, they routinely present the same, reckless, across the board advice to avoid salt – whether you desperately need it or not. The fact that our population is a vastly heterogeneous group with grossly divergent biochemistries makes no difference to them. The chant is always the same, “ Salt is Bad!”
Its gone far enough! This dogma MUST end.
“The idea that salt in the diet has positive value is totally ignored.” – Dr A.M. Heagerty, MD, Dept of Medicine, Leicester UK. To present the other side of this controversy I choose to interview one of the leading proponents of salt in the world. This is a California biochemist named Dr Jacques de Langre. He has been studying the health benefits of salt for over 30 years. He has a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Brussels. He wrote two books on this topic: “Sea Salt’s Hidden Powers” and “Sea Salt: The Vital Spark for Life”. Dr de Langre recommends a special, unrefined French Celtic salt for ALL people with high blood pressure and heart problems. His approach defies orthodox medical logic. The opinions of Dr. de Langre are obviously 100% counter to established medial beliefs. No one, not even unorthodox doctors, go as far as Dr de Langre, in his universal recommendation for good salt. Dr de Langre openly agrees that refined salt (pure sodium chloride) is toxic to the body – and can cause high blood pressure. Yet he believes Celtic salt is extremely healthy, and has the exact opposite effect of refined salt. “The entire health field is very sloppy with its terminology on salt. They think all salt is the same. This is far from true. Most refined salts are a poison. But some natural salts are a nutritious food. In America, doctors condemn salt. They take heart patients off of salt. In France, they give heart patients good salt.” In this exclusive interview, Dr de Langre will attack some common dogmas and myths about salt and high blood pressure. You will learn:
I guarantee, after you read this interview, your views on salt will never be the same ! Sam Biser Interviews Jacques de Langre Jacques de Langre PhD, a Californian biochemist studied Celtic Salt for over 30 years. His two books “Seasalt’s Hidden Powers” and “Sea Salt, the Vital Spark for Life” are well worth seeking out. Amazon normally has a number of copies available. Following is a transcript of an interview with Jacques de Langre that discusses some of the issues. DE LANGRE: They say, “I can’t eat salt. My doctor won’t let me.” All they have heard in the media is how bad salt is. When I tell people about the health benefits of good salt, they say, “I didn’t know there was anything good to say about salt.” Twenty-five years ago, I contacted some people in the book business, I said, “I have an idea for a book on salt”. The chief editor said, “You sprinkle salt on your food. What else is there to know?” I said “a lot”. BISER: Why is the scientific literature so against salt? DE LANGRE: Science has arrived at some dangerous conclusions based on the wrong salt. 99% of the world’s research on salt is done on commercial table salt. This is the only salt they know of. They think all salt is the same – but they’re wrong. The medical doctors have a dilemma. Refined salt can cause a lot of problems. They are correct on that point and that has been well documented. Yet a salt-free diet has problems of its own. They’re in a scientific rut. Neither approach, taking refined salt or avoiding it, is the answer. People desperately need salt for good health and medicine doesn’t have any solution. On the topic of salt, American scientists are very narrow-minded and insular. We are still in the dark ages of salt making. In many parts of France, when a person comes in with heart problems, high blood pressure or other problems, which are hard to diagnose, the first question the physician will ask is, “What kind of salt are you using?” There is no such opportunity here, because the only recognized salt is refined, white table salt. Some of the best scientific research on the health properties of good salt is written in French, German and Portuguese. But a few American doctors have read them. Two classic French medical books on salt are, “The Ocean that Heals” & “Secrets of our Origins”. A German medical classic on the healing powers of salt is “The Salt of Life.” We don’t have medical books like this in North America. This country was raised on refined salt. We inherited this from the English. So, we have never been exposed to a healthy salt. All we know of is Morton’s salt. Americans are totally ignorant of any natural process that can make a healthy salt. We choose to ignore that which is so essential to our biology and so we continue to accept and spread the gospel on the dangers of salt. We have never been told there is another side. BISER: You wrote in your book that a healthy and active lifestyle demands an adequate intake of salt. Is this true? DE LANGRE: If your tears weren’t salty, if your blood wasn’t salty, if your sweat wasn’t salty, you wouldn’t be functioning very well. The current medical belief that our body can function on no salt at all or on a restricted salt intake, causes more problems than it tries to solve. You can’t function without salt. Your heart can’t function, your adrenal glands can’t function, your liver can’t function, your kidneys can’t function. Sodium is the predominant solution in the circulating blood plasma and tissue fluids. Derek Denton brought out this point in the medical physiology book, “The Hunger for Salt”. Rene Quinton, the French physiologist, used the term “milieu interieur” – the internal environment, the unchanging salty environment of our own “internal ocean.” He talked about serum of all warm-blooded animals on this earth. People forget, but everyone was born in a salty solution – our mother’s amniotic fluid. This is probably the best biological proof we have that cellular structure in enhanced by salt. The amniotic fluid is a salty, ‘mini-ocean’ for the fetus. This is a prime example of why we need all of the ocean’s minerals as part of our make-up. This is the very first thing anyone should discuss when talking about salt. This is basic. Your very blood needs salt to function. There was an article in the Scientific American on this topic in the July, 1963 issue, “The Social Influence of Salt”. It said, “The chemical requirements of the human body demand that the salt concentration in the blood be kept constant”. They discussed how you can die on a completely salt-less diet. BISER: Based on these thoughts, will a low-salt diet cause accelerated aging? DE LANGRE: Absolutely. Your cells must be bathed in a sodium-based extracellular fluid. When the cells are not in this fluid, they will explode. This has been proven biologically. The cells of a mammal deprived of sodium literally explode. Without salt, there is no longer any exchange between the sodium on the outside of the cell and the potassium on the inside. Talk about aging, this is probably the one, single most important biological fact that must be considered when you discuss salt. Deprived of that saline solution, the cells age. On the other hand, taking refined salt is not the answer. This will promote a pathological calcification and breakdown of cellular tissue. In either case, you have problems BISER: Will restricting the salt intake help high blood pressure? DE LANGRE: In the majority of cases, no. In most cases, the high blood pressure is not measurably lowered by restricting salt intake. Even a drastically reduced sodium diet – down to less that ½ gram/day, often fails to show any improvements in cardiovascular problems. Dr. John Laragh expressed the same thing in the May 1983 issue of the Annuals of Internal Medicine (page 740). “It is likely that even drastic sodium restriction would not prevent hypertension, because fewer than half of hypertensive patients would respond.” He goes on to say, “Public health policy should be dictated by facts and not by hopes or opinions.” I agree. In another article, in the January 1991 issue of Hypertension, this same doctor states that salt restriction is a safe and effective treatment for the prevention of hypertension. “It must remain an interesting speculation, without enough evidence to justify its conclusion as part of a national program.” BISER: In scientific journals, I have read that a low-salt diet can actually cause high blood pressure in some people. DE LANGRE: That’s true for some people. I believe that when the heart has much less of a fuel for contraction, it is trying to raise the pressure by restricting the arteries. If you have a regular mechanical pump that doesn’t work well or has a slow leak, you have to reduce the diameter of the vessel through which the liquid is being pumped. You can see how this would happen with a garden hose if you reduce the pressure. In this case, we are talking about blood. So the body compensates for a weak-pumping action by the heart via the arteries. Lots of other things are happening as well. On a low-salt diet, not only is the heart working harder, but so are many of the other organs as well. BISER: How does a salt-free diet affect the heart? DE LANGRE: A salt-free diet can damage the valves of the heart. The contractility of the heart muscles is negatively affected by a deficiency of salt. The heart can no longer contract normally. Remember, the heart is fed by a saline solution from the blood and lymph. On a salt-free diet, the valves of the heart can tire. They will begin to lacerate and break up in shreds. Biochemically, without salt, the cells starve. On a salt-free diet, you will not recover quickly after an illness. You can also get para-anaemia. Salt is an energizer. That Recharge drink the athletes use is a salt-based fluid. There is a definite need for sodium chloride to maintain and rebuild the cells. I have talked to a few friends who are sufferers. They say they get all kinds of nicks, cuts and scratches. But by being in and around the salt water, they heal very quickly. The good natural salt is very healing. If salt was so bad, why do they feed intravenous saline solution in hospital patients. They do this because they body runs on salt. Without salt, we run out of electrolytes. Without electrolytes, our human batteries die out. BISER: A lot of vegetarians eat salt-less diets. Is this beneficial? DE LANGRE: It is very bad. You have so much ingested potassium from the green leafy vegetables, which is not neutralized by the sodium. If potassium is in excess in relation to sodium, the body loses its ability to produce hydrochloric acid. Then you have digestion problems, which vegetarians have. BISER: How does the salt-free diet affect the health of many vegetarians? DE LANGRE: They are open to a lot of respiratory ailments. This is because of the extra moisture on the lungs, which cannot be removed by the kidneys. They often have a lot of urinary infections. But I have received a lot of letters from vegetarians who have discovered my salt. They say they feel much better and have more energy BISER: People generally think of salt as sodium chloride. But you don’t accept that definition do you? DE LANGRE: In this country, that is what people have been taught, all the way from kindergarten to medical school. To them, salt is pure sodium chloride. There is no other salt available in the U.S., so this rules their thinking. When people talk about salt, they overlook completely that there are 84 buffering elements in salt to protect people from the harshness of sodium chloride in its pure state. Nature put these complimentary elements in salt for two reasons. First, to make sure that people could use the sodium properly. And second, to ensure that once the sodium has been utilized, it will be eliminated completely and quickly from the kidneys. An analysis of salt goes way beyond the minerals and the chemical elements. There was an article on this topic in the September 1982 issue of Ocean Magazine. They made a fantastic defense of salt, saying salt is not just chemicals, it is a lot more. There is bio-electric energy in salt; there is magnetism; there are vital and inert gases, such as helium, neon and argon; plus there are micro-organisms that are critical for the life of salt. They wrote, “Sea water is a complex chemical soup, containing 84 of the 103 known elements.” Nature had a purpose in making our blood “like the ocean”. In the ocean, sodium is buffered. In our blood, the sodium is buffered and in our diet, the sodium should be buffered as well. If you tried to inject pure sodium chloride intravenously, you would kill the patient. He goes into salt shock. This is well known in medical circles. In the 1900’s, a medical doctor named Jacques Loeb, from the university of California, performed an epic experiment. He put a fish in a tank of water mixed with refined salt, the same concentration of salt that exists in seawater. All the fish died. If fish can’t live on pure sodium chloride in dilute concentration, how can we? BISER: Let’s talk about Celtic salt. Where did the method for Celtic salt first originate? DE LANGRE: The Celtic process of drying the salt by the sun and the wind first started well over 900 years ago. The Celtic people of France changed the archaic boiling method of preparing salt. These salt makers were given royalty status. These methods were used along the entire coast, from the Netherlands to Morocco Brittany. France was favoured because of the unusually bright sunny climate and prevailing winds. Today, the same pristine process of salt making continues. Celtic salt contains every element that is in seawater, minus the mud. There are actually more than 84 elements in the ocean, but they haven’t all been detected yet. To make the Celtic salt, ocean water is taken through a mile long decanting lake. This precipitates the particles at the bottom. The water then becomes a beautiful blue, more than any tropical ocean. This water is then guided in spirals along a series of concentrating ponds for 1-2 miles. When the salt reaches a certain concentration, they take out the excess magnesium salts, which are called the bitterns. The remaining salt is dried by the wind and the sun. There is never any heat used. What remains is biologically active, pure, moist, Celtic salt. No chemicals, preservatives or anything else has been added. “Celtic salt lowers the blood pressure, because it removes the excess sodium from the tissues.” BISER: How do you know Celtic salt helps to lower high blood pressure? That’s a rather controversial concept, isn’t it? DE LANGRE: We have had reports of people going to the doctor and their doctor saying, “Well, you must be taking less salt, because your blood pressure is lower.” But the truth is, they didn’t cut down their salt intake at all. They were taking Celtic salt. We get a lot on this point. One reader writes, “My husband has refused to get off salt, so he has always had high blood pressure. But since he stopped using the store refined salt and started using Celtic salt, his blood pressure is now normal.” We hear this all the time. Here’s a letter from a man in Los Angeles. “Two weeks ago I donated blood at a Red Cross station. At that time my blood pressure was 160 over 90. (Normal is 120 over 80). Yesterday, after hardly a week of using the Celtic salt, the only new addition to my diet, I recorded a blood pressure reading of 105 over 82. I am convinced that your salt had a hand in reducing my blood pressure”. Here’s one more. “My husband has a severe problem with high blood pressure. Any amount of salt in the past would increase the blood pressure. Now he uses the Celtic salt and his pressure has not gone up. One old man who lives near me makes organic wine. He told me the same thing. He said his blood pressure went way down on the Celtic salt. Before, it was always high.” In the last 30 years, I would have heard testimonials such as this, say a couple of thousand. It’s unbelievable. They all say the same thing. “All of a sudden my blood pressure is normal. What have I done? This is the most common thing I hear about Celtic salt. BISER: Why does Celtic salt lower blood pressure? What’s the mechanism? DE LANGRE: In regular salt, the refined sodium chloride often stays in the body long after it has done its job. Celtic salt helps to remove this excess sodium, as soon as it is no longer needed. This is because the Celtic salt has magnesium, about ¾ of 1%, by solids. One of the roles of magnesium in the body is to remove the excess sodium. The three forms of magnesium in Celtic salt which dissolves the sodium are magnesium chloride, magnesium sulphate and magnesium bromide. It’s one of the great nutritional paradoxes, that you have to give salt, in order to lower the level of salt in the tissues. BISER: You said you have been taking Celtic salt for many years. How is your own blood pressure? DE LANGRE: When I was 55, I was tested in Boston by two medical doctors. They both said I had the blood pressure of a twenty-year old. They were very, very surprised. I am 67, so that was twelve years ago. I have been using Celtic salt all my life. I have never restricted my salt intake. Around here, they call me “The Salt Man”. I don’t over do it, but I like salt. Three years ago, I had my blood pressure tested by a surgeon. It was extremely low. It was still in the same range as it was when I was 55. He said there was absolutely no cholesterol deposits in the arteries. I use the salt on a lot of my food. But whenever I have a check-up, my doctor says my salt level is normal. BISER: How long does it take for a person to notice a reduction of blood pressure on your salt? DE LANGRE: It varies with each person. Sometimes people call me less than a month later and say, “I had my blood pressure taken and it has gone down. Could it be the salt?” I would have to say on average, it takes a month or longer to notice a drop in blood pressure. Of course, everyone is different. There are always exceptions. The Celtic salt literally “scrounges” around the body looking for excess salt deposits in the interstitial tissue and it just drains this sodium through the kidneys. The Celtic salt will also help to dissolve kidney stones. Medical doctors have told me that. One woman from Montana wrote that when she first received Celtic salt, she felt like she had been given a bag of gold. BISER: Suppose a person has a low blood pressure. Will taking the Celtic salt make their pressure go even lower? DE LANGRE: Not at all. The Celtic salt has this uncanny ability to bring back to centre whatever function is unbalanced in the body. If you have low blood pressure, the Celtic salt will bring the pressure back up. If you have high blood pressure, it brings it down. Only natural means can do this. A pharmaceutical drug, which is designed to lower blood pressure, will only work one way – “down”. And they can bring your pressure so darn low, you will have problems. BISER: Have you heard stories of people who raised their low blood pressure on the Celtic salt? DE LANGRE: Yes, definitely. Of course. Celtic salt is a blood pressure normaliser. Most people can’t understand this, but Celtic salt has a ‘biochemical intelligence’. It’s a thinking salt. It is totally different from the dead, lifeless, refined salt currently used. We are probably consuming 2-3 times more salt than we need. Mainly because we use a demineralized, refined salt, they would find they need much less salt in their food. BISER: What do you think of natural sea salt sold in the health food stores? DE LANGRE: This can be just as bad for your health as regular salt. Most sea salt often comes from the same refinery as commercial salt. You can tell sea salt is refined because you can pick it up and it does not have any sign of moisture at all. Refined salt is very dry salt. This tells you the magnesium has been taken out, because magnesium is a water-hugging molecule. “I’m sorry to say, but most natural ‘sea salt’ is almost identical to supermarket salt.” BISER: How do you know that edema goes down on the Celtic salt? DE LANGRE: We met a very beautiful Japanese – American girl a few years ago. The girl was healthy-looking except for swollen ankles. She knew who I was. She said, “You’re the salt man. I need to talk to you. Look at my ankles.” I said, “Where have you been living?” She said, “I live on a macrobiotic farm and we use only the macrobiotic salt. This salt is refined, just like regular salt, but it has the stamp of approval from the macrobiotic teachings. We started her on the Celtic salt and told her to totally avoid the macrobiotic salt. Two days later she came to my wife and grabbed her. She said, “Look at my ankles. The swelling has gone. They are now normal. I cannot believe the change.” Macrobiotic salt is dangerous for your health. It is refined, desiccated and de-ionized. BISER: For a person with heart problems, would you recommend the Celtic salt? How much would you recommend? DE LANGRE: Definitely, in moderate quantities. I think the Celtic salt has the ability to cleanse the heart. Remember the famous experiment with the French doctor, Alexis Carrel? He kept a chicken heart alive for 37 years by feeding it this same Celtic salt. If he had used regular refined salt, the heart would never have lived that long. Use it in moderation. Salt to taste. When using Celtic salt, use 2/3 the amount of salt you would normally use. If a recipe calls for 100 grams of salt, I will use only 65 grams of the Celtic salt. And it will have the same saltiness of the recipe. “A French physiologist, named Rene Quinton, healed thousands of people with a serum derived from sea water.” BISER: So by using the Celtic salt, you are actually using less salt? Does it affect your appetite? DE LANGRE: Of course. Because you are meeting the taste bud’s requirements. If you want to make a comparison test between the refined salt and Celtic salt, here is what to do. First Celtic salt. Your taste buds will be gently awakened. If you put the regular salt on your tongue, your tongue will be out of commission for at least 30 minutes. You cannot taste anything else. With the refined salt, your taste buds are stunned and weakened. Your sense of taste is suppressed. This is why you see people in restaurants piling the salt on in order to get some taste out of the food. The salt irritates the taste buds and inhibits them. Here’s another experiment you can try, if you are not too queasy. With a sharp and clean razor blade, make a little cut on the back of your left hand and put some refined salt on the cut. Then put a Band-Aid on. Do the same thing on the right hand, but now cover it with Celtic salt. In the morning, you will find an inflammation where you used the refined salt. But not with the Celtic salt. I believe regular refined salt inflames the cells of the body. You don’t need to eat as much food, because you are getting more nutrition from the food you eat. You will find you are satisfied quicker. “The potential harmful consequences of salt restriction have not been examined.” Dr.M.G.Nicholis. M.D. Endocrine Dept, Princess Margaret Hospital, NZ BISER: Will people live longer on the Celtic salt? DE LANGRE: I definitely think so. Celtic salt is a cleanser of bodily fluids. It will help keep your body biochemically clean. Plus you are giving the body a perfect isotonic solution. Alexis Carrel’s chicken heart experiment should prove more than anything else that Celtic salt can aid longevity. BISER: Does cooking or boiling harm Celtic salt? DE LANGRE: Ideally, you want to cook the salt as little as possible. It is best to add the Celtic salt to your food directly. When you cook with the salt, try to add the salt toward the very end of the cooking. This is when you have almost no boiling going on. Just a low simmer. BISER: Is there any way a person can take too much Celtic salt? DE LANGRE: You can overdose on anything. You have to use common sense. In healthy people, there is a built-in mechanism that tells them when the body has had enough salt. You are not as prone to start pouring the salt from the shaker as many do with refined salt. BISER: Why do you say that if you don’t cook your vegetables with salt, you will never cure illnesses DE LANGRE: Vegetables cannot be fully digested without being salted. When you use the Celtic salt, I would say you can get up to seven times the nutrition out of vegetables. For example, take leeks or dandelion roots. They are supposed to be a good diuretic. If you don’t use any Celtic salt, dandelion root really acts very little on the urinary tract. But put a little Celtic salt on it and the potency is vastly increased. A lot of people have told me that vegetables have little taste until you put good salt on them. I especially use Celtic salt on oily foods like avocados. The salt helps to digest and emulsify oils – even natural oils. Anyone who takes herbal teas for healing, should add a pinch of Celtic salt to the tea. This will make it far more potent. In Africa, the natives add this salt to their tea at night. It is far healthier to take tea with salt than with a sweetener. BISER: How about salt from deep mines out West or from ancient seabeds. Is this healthy salt? DE LANGRE: Salt from long-buried salt mines or ancient sea beds is not fit for humans. After thousands of years of rainfall through these geological layers, many of the vital minerals are depleted. The natural balance of the salt is gone. Most of the essential elements are driven down to the bottom of the pile – hundreds of feet below the salt line. The result is a de-mineralised salt, or sometimes, an over-mineralised salt. BISER: How do big companies refine salt? DE LANGRE: They are basically extracting all the precious elements out of salt, so they can sell the minerals to chemical companies for a good profit. What’s left is a by-product, pure sodium chloride. To this, they add anti-yellowing bleaches and glucose. “The inorganic iodine they add to commercial table salt can cause obesity and sexual paralysis.” BISER: Is Celtic salt good for animals? DE LANGRE: It’s fantastic for dogs, horses and even pet fish. We have had people write, who added Celtic salt to their fish tank. They said their fish were dying. As soon as they added a pinch of the salt, the fish came back to life. BISER: What is the normal reaction to Celtic salt? DE LANGRE: The major reaction is a renewal of energy. Fatigue diminishes. You also have more mental alertness. As far as adverse reactions, some people get rashes. The salt acts as a scavenger and purges the body of many toxins from some hidden areas. These toxins come out into the circulatory and lymph system and particularly the kidney area. This is where the rash comes from; it is a kidney cleansing. This is a normal reaction for people who are very toxic. If you are not toxic, it will not happen. A similar reaction is that sores will break out under the armpits. If you do take the Celtic salt and you do get a rash, you can say, “Hallelujah”, something good is happening to me. When that happens, all they have to do is take baths with the Celtic salt and rub the rash very gently with the saline solution. This will get the skin to function as an elimination organ. After the mild rash has gone, warts and black skin moles have been known to shrink, shed and drop off. When you have a wound, you will find adding a little Celtic salt to your diet will speed the healing. Two weeks ago, I cut myself down to the bone on my little finger. Now, you cannot even see the scar. It totally disappeared. The first thing I did was to put Celtic salt on the wound and I consumed a little more salt than normal. Now, the wound is gone. By using Celtic salt, your body will heal that much faster. Your body cells can regenerate more easily. BISER: Thank you very much, Dr.De Langre.
Hydrotherapy has been used for centuries to cure, or aid, all types of illnesses. The health pioneer, Sebastian Kneipp, was one of the founders of naturopathic medicine. He developed the “Kneipp Cure,” which is a form of hydrotherapy that uses water of various temperatures and pressures in addition to a variety of methods to treat ailments of the body. Here are four classic hydrotherapy treatments that Kneipp used to promote wellness: The cold arm bath This boosts the body’s immune system and improves circulation throughout the body. Kneipp used it to refresh patients when tired and ill. The treatment typically occurred in the late morning or early afternoon, and used cold water — around 54 to 65 degrees F — and a water basin. Patients would immerse their arms until the sensation of cold became noticeable, which was usually around 30 seconds. Then they would take their arms out and dry off. The cold leg compress Kneipp used this treatment to cool off the skin and lower high blood pressure. It also soothed inflammation and promoted solid sleep. A cold wet linen cloth was used to wrap around the calf, covered with a cotton cloth and small wool cloth. Then the patient would rest for around 20 minutes and change the compress when it was warm. Water treading This method Kneipp used to refresh tired legs, help with headaches and give the immune system a boost. It involves putting the leg knee deep in cold water and then marching for 1 to 2 minutes afterward. Knee-affusion Overall, this method was used to strengthen the body’s defenses. The doc used it to give the pelvic organs a boost and increase circulation. It used water jets spread out on the outer side of the leg, from the ankle to the hollow of the knee. While all of these hydrotherapy methods were used to improve the overall health of the body, it should be noted that these should be done under the supervision of a specialist. For more info on hydrotherapy and other services, like colon hydrotherapy and lymphatic massage, give us a call today. Ever since they arrived on the market, cell phones have undergone scrutiny for the radiation they emit. And despite industry paid studies which concludes that phone radiation is harmless, independent scientists overwhelmingly find that it can cause a variety of ailments including altered human DNA, low sperm count, autism and brain tumor — killing wellness. In fact, Apple puts out a disclaimer on the iPhone, under RF Exposure, that states, “Carry iPhone at least 10 mm away from your body to ensure exposure levels remain at or below the as-tested levels.” Now cell phone companies are getting hit with class action lawsuits, and more studies are saying that cell phone devices are more harmful than cigarettes. Insurers have even stopped covering for cell phone use. RevolutoinNewz reports on the next ‘casualty catastrophe’ after tobacco and asbestos in this video: |