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1. How Probiotics Can Help Your Skin
2. Metabolism and Nutrition
3. Nerve Damage Can’t be Repaired? You just have to live with it?
4. Life is Good, and I Owe it to Narconon

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How Probiotics Can Help Your Skin
by Dr. Martin (MartinClinic.com)

You may not know this, but you have TRILLIONS of tiny bacteria that live ON and INSIDE your body. In fact You have about 5 POUNDS of bacteria that live in and on you.

The fancy term for the bacteria living in and on your body is 'microbiome.'

What's important to know is that your microbiome covers ALL your organs.

Yes, your heart, lungs, liver, skin and brain are loaded with this bacteria. Even though you can't see your microbiome, they're absolutely critical to your health.
You can't live without your microbiome.

What I find fascinating about the microbiome is that all the bacteria in and on your body communicate with each other through your gut!

Here's what I mean by that, most people already know they have bacteria in their gut and that the health of the bacteria in their gut plays a vital role in digestive health. Most also know that to keep your gut bacteria healthy, you need to take a good probiotic.

But few people know (even most doctors don't know) that the bacteria in your gut communicate directly with the bacteria in your lungs, heart, liver, pancreas, skin, bones, muscles, and brain.

This means that ANY problem with the bacteria in your gut will hurt the microbiome in your lungs.

Many people have recurring lung infections (or even asthma) because their gut is a mess. Researchers use terms like "gut-lung axis," "gut-brain axis," or "gut-liver axis" to describe the direct communication between the lung and those organs.

Think of your gut as the center of a wheel, and the spokes are your organs - all of your organs are connected to your gut through bacteria.

This is why people who take a good probiotic notice benefits in different areas of their body that they had no idea was connected to their gut.

Ancient doctors knew all health starts in the gut. Modern doctors have forgotten that.

Now, millions have digestive issues like bloating, constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, heartburn, cramping, and indigestion so they know their gut isn't as healthy as it should be.

But, MILLIONS of people have no "obvious" digestive symptoms, so they think their gut is healthy. Unfortunately, that's FAR from the truth.

To see what I mean, let's discuss a new study, "The Role of Probiotics in Skin Health and Related Gut-Skin Axis."

This new study found probiotics can be used as a potential tool to "suppress and improve skin diseases in multiple ways, including oxidative stress, suppressing inflammatory responses, and keeping immune effects."

The study found probiotics help with skin moisturizing, skin anti-aging, skin anti-wrinkle, and body odour removal. Again this makes sense because the microbiome in your gut talks directly with the bacteria on your skin.

This means gut health plays a critical role in skin health and probiotics are the #1 way to keep your gut healthy.

Let me say this, I don't think I've ever seen someone with 'bad' skin have a healthy gut. A person with skin issues might not think they have any digestive issues, but they don't realize that their skin problems are actually digestive symptoms!

When I hear someone describe a skin issue, I immediately think of the gut and specifically, I think about Leaky Gut Syndrome.

You may have heard of LEAKY GUT, but perhaps you're not entirely sure what it is.

Here's a quick explanation, the "wall" of your gut, or your gut lining, is the barrier that protects the rest of your body against toxins. It is the ONLY barrier between your food and your BLOOD system.

You don't want yeast, bacteria, parasites, undigested food, or toxins to enter your bloodstream. That's when your health is at risk.

But, when your gut lining begins to break down toxins' leak' into your bloodstream and get into other systems of your body creating problems.

I know it's not pleasant to hear.

Still, it's crucial for you to fully realize: Yeast, bacteria, parasites, undigested food, and tiny pieces of poop (gross) are leaking into the rest of your body through a soft, porous gut lining wreaking havoc on the rest of your body!

Leaky Gut Syndrome affects almost everyone at one time or another.

Why is leaky gut prevalent?

There are many reasons. In fact, almost everything you do in a day negatively impacts the health of your gut. But, there are 6 significant causes of Leaky Gut Syndrome:

✔️Antibiotics are the most significant reason. A couple days of antibiotics will kill all bacteria, including the good ones your gut needs to be healthy. Your gut is leaky if you've been on antibiotics and never taken an excellent probiotic.

✔️Medications, such as antacids or any anti-inflammatory like Ibuprofen or acetaminophen.

✔️Stress causes an increase in cortisol (the stress hormone), which causes irritation to the gut lining.

✔️Vegetable oils are highly inflammatory and irritate the gut lining.

✔️Plastics, GMOs, Pesticides, and Herbicides found in our foods.

✔️Artificial sweeteners, many of them kill the good bacteria found in your gut.

As you can see, there's a good reason why Leaky Gut Syndrome affects millions of people worldwide the causes are almost impossible to avoid! So, HOW do you FIX Leaky Gut Syndrome? The first and most important thing to do is take a GOOD probiotic.

Remember, probiotics are the "good guys" in your body. They're often called the "good bacteria." Probiotics keep harmful bacteria in check and promote health.

Metabolism and Nutrition

There is a subject taught in colleges called Dietetics. It has been around since well before World War II. The term means; through diet. Nutrientetics would be an advance on dietetics.

Nutrients are what are in food or supplements that are useful to your body. While diet contains nutrients, a person’s diet does not necessarily, and rarely does, supply all the nutrients the human body needs in adequate quantities. Even an organic food diet rarely provides all one needs.

Metabolism is the overall activity of building the body anew and tearing down worn-out parts. In your body, both of these activities are continuous. It is estimated that every seven years your body is completely new. Imagine if your house had to be rebuilt from the ground up every seven years!

One of the best ways to see where metabolism is not occurring entirely is with muscle control stress tests. These tests reveal areas of subnormal function and locate the nutrients that will improve that function. Consider the data in science that say man could live 120 to 140 years old and the fact those 120 to 140 years is about five times our maturity figure of 25 years old. You would have to say man is falling far short of his potential. Note-other animals often live about five times their maturity rate.

It is provable, from my viewpoint, that our cultural food habits and tendencies are what keep us from achieving a more attainable longevity. Appropriate nutritional supplements help to fill the gap.

Dr. Mike Spearman
www.spearmanbetterhealth.com

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Nerve Damage Can’t Be Repaired? You just have to live with it?

I can’t count the number of times that I’ve been told by someone that their medical doctor said that there was nothing that could be done about their neuropathy as damaged nerves can’t be repaired.

It seems not all doctors believe that.

Here is a quote from Columbia University Medical Center that says:

“This is an important point when dealing with peripheral nerve injuries. The healing process almost invariably requires an extensive amount of time to occur.”

And another quote from a medical doctor and researcher:

“Peripheral nerve fibers can regrow- otherwise we’d lose sensation whenever we cut a finger.” The Body Electric by Robert O. Becker, M.D. and Gary Selden There is lots of information in this book about growth and regrowth of the nervous system.

Or this quote “.lifestyle changes, diet, superfoods, and the use of nutrients could potentially reverse the severity of the nerve damage” Ray Sahlian, M.D.

Or a speech at Peripheral Nerve Regeneration Integrated Neuroscience Session: “These findings indicate that methyl-B12 promotes regeneration of degenerating nerve terminals”

Says scientist K Yamazaki – 1994 “Ultra-high dose methylcobalamine promotes nerve regeneration.” Scientist T Watanabe – 1994

So, what is the truth?

Here is some research that has been done on repairing nerves.

Nerve Regeneration with Methylcobalamine Ultra-high dose methylcobalamine promotes nerve regeneration in experimental acrylamide neuropathy. Watanabe T Kaji R Oka N Bara W Kimura J, J Neurol Sci (1994 Apr) 122(2):140-3 Full Study

Regeneration of Motor Nerve Terminals with Methyl B12” methylcobalamine (methyl-B12) Promotes Regeneration of Motor Nerve Terminals Degenerating in anterior gracile muscle of gracile axonal dystrophy (GAD) mutant mouse Yamazaki K Oda K Endo C Kikuchi T Wakabayashi T, Neurosci Lett (1994 Mar 28) 170(1):195-7

“These findings indicate that methyl-B12 promotes regeneration of degenerating nerve terminals in GAD mice”

Benfotiamine and Improvement in Nerve Conduction Velocity A Benfotiamine-vitamin B Combination in Treatment of Diabetic Polyneuropathy Stracke H, Lindemann A, Federlin K.

This research tells you that it is possible to repair nerves, if you give the body what it needs to make those repairs.

You can look these up yourself at PubMed – just put in the name of the study.

Read more and understand Nerve Damage

*Studies & Research on Nerve Health

Life is Good, and I Owe it to Narconon

When I was 17 a friend talked me into trying crack cocaine. I had never had it before. With one puff I was immediately addicted. I knew I was going to have a problem with it right away. And I did—for the next 19 years, until I found Narconon.

I was beat up, shot at, robbed and mugged. (These kinds of things happen when you have money and drive a nice car into a drug neighborhood to buy crack.) I could not stop.

In my mind, I had become a bad person. Every time I looked in the mirror, I couldn’t stand who I had become.

I went to three quite expensive drug rehabs and none of them worked. These programs were supposed to be the very best. Yet I started using drugs again not long after leaving each one.

After one of the rehabs and a time in sober living, I thought I was doing well, so I enrolled in college. One day on my way to school, I took a wrong turn and decided to keep driving in that direction to get drugs. I went off the deep end again—so deep that I wound up in jail.

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