Question: I have been experiencing a lot of anxiety attacks.  Some of them are just overwhelming with heart palpitations and chest pain that can last for hours afterwards.  My doctor’s answer is antidepressant drugs.  I know that is not addressing the causes, only treating the symptoms.  Do you have any suggestions?  Anonymous – Hillsboro Beach, FL Answer: You need to work with someone who can help you with this, as it can be quite complicated.  I suggest a medical practitioner who specializes in alternative approaches to these problems. There are many safe approaches to reducing anxiety.  There is no need to resort to prescription drugs, which are certain to cause you a host of new problems due to their toxicity.  As with any health problem, you most likely would not be experiencing it if you were eating a healthy diet.  Ninety cents of the American food dollar is spent on processed foods that are toxic garbage.  If you eat garbage, your body won’t work right.  Garbage is som…

Question: Two years ago we moved into a new apartment. Since then, I have been suffering from depression.  I know from your articles that depression is caused by nutritional deficiencies, but I am doing everything you suggest in your articles and taking your supplements, and I am still sick.  There is a lot of mold growing in our bathroom and kitchen, and I was wondering if this could be having an effect.  A.J. – Houston, TX Answer:   Your suspicions may be correct.  In fact, there was a study published in the American Journal of Public Health finding that people who live in moldy environments are more likely to suffer from depression.  You could have a cerebral allergy to molds or the toxins from the molds could be having an effect on your brain. Whatever the reason for your depression, living in a moldy environment is not healthy.  I would strongly advise you to move to another apartment.  This will benefit your overall health and may well cure your depression.  Always check…

Question: A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association determined that going on a diet high in fruits and vegetables did not prevent the return of breast cancer in a 7 year experiment with 3000 women.  Comments? J.W. – San Francisco, CA Answer: This study is a perfect example of how to waste money ($35 million) and confuse the public by doing inane studies.  In short, given the conditions of the study, I could have easily predicted the results without spending the money, but then the clueless researches might go hungry. The researches were mystified by the results because the people in the study did not lose weight.  This is an important clue.  Anyone on a healthy plant-food diet with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables will lose weight. These people did not lose weight because they were allowed to eat the unhealthy foods that drive cancer and overweight – sugar, white flour, processed oils and dairy/excess animal protein.  The women were allowed to eat meat an…

Question: What do you recommend we do to get the high quality foods we need? H. H. — Georgetown, Ontario Answer: When I lived in California, fresh organic foods were available year round and made it life a lot easier for the health conscious.  However, there are things you can do to improve upon the usual supermarket fare. As much as possible, grow your own food.  It’s amazing how much food you can get from a garden that is just 30 square feet.  In the winter, grow sprouts in your kitchen.  Go online and get information on sprouting products and instructions on how to do it.  A few sprouting jars will supply you with fresh, nutritious and inexpensive food all winter long.  When available, buy locally grown foods, especially at farmer’s markets.  Talk to the farmers and ask about pesticide and herbicide use.  Organic farms are popping up all over the place.  Make sure the product you select looks healthy, and never buy or consume anything that is even the slightest bit moldy. …

Question: I have been trying to lose weight.  I think I am doing all the right things, but I’m not having much success.  Do you have any suggestions? P. O. – Los Altos, CA Answer:   On the bottom line, losing weight is about reducing calories and getting regular exercise.  However, even when reducing calories, the kinds of calories you eat make a difference.  I recall reading in a technical journal of obese patients who had trouble losing weight and who were given one rule to live by – do not eat white flour.  All of these subjects experience dramatic reductions in weight within three months. Refined grains and sugars somehow seem to do more than just overload us with empty calories.  They also appear to alter our biochemistry in a way that leads to obesity.  Refined carbohydrates increase saturate fat and cholesterol levels while decreasing vitamin, mineral, fiber, and glutathione levels among others. To lose weight, avoid all wheat, refined sugar and dairy products.  Incr…

Question: I am trying to get my husband to take your supplements.  He says vitamins make expensive urine and that he doesn’t need them.  What can I say to him to wake him up? I. T. – Internet Answer:   Your husband is right.  There is no reason to take supplements – providing.  Providing he is eating food grown in mineral-rich soils that is fresh, organically grown, locally grown and not transported over long distances or stored for months before being consumed.  In addition, he’s working outdoors, breathing unpolluted air, drinking unpolluted water, free of exposure to other environmental toxins, exercising daily, getting nine hours of sleep and living a stress-free life.  If he does all that, who needs supplements?  I do as much of that as I can and I still take supplements.  You might ask him how he thinks he’s doing regarding this list.…

Question: What do they mean when they say rebounding is good for the lymph system? D. E. – Louisville, KY Answer:   Rebounding helps to drain the lymph system.  One thing that gets little attention from modern medicine, unless something goes wrong with it, is the lymphatic system.  Yet this system is critical to health and we have to care for it.  More than just the lymph vessels and nodes, the lymph system also includes the tonsils and adenoids as well as the spleen, appendix and thymus gland.  Lymph vessels carry all kinds of toxins and wastes from cells and tissues.  Encouraging this process is essential for health and critical for restoring health. If the circulatory system is like the water system coming into your house, the lymphatic system is like the drainage system leaving your house.  What would happen to your house if all the drains plugged up?  Pretty messy!  The same thing happens in your body, and today’s sedentary lifestyle does not encourage lymphatic drainage.…

Question: Your staff recommended that I take Beyond Health Dietary Fiber for my high blood pressure.  I am wondering what this has to do with blood pressure. C. D. — Lauderhill, FL Answer:  Beyond Health Dietary Fiber is a quality fiber supplement, and adequate dietary fiber can help to keep your blood pressure under control.  A study in the March 2005 Journal of Hypertension found that a high-fiber diet was associated with a significant reduction in blood pressure levels among people with hypertension.  This is important to know because about 50 million Americans and one billion people worldwide have high blood pressure, for which the usual treatment is blood pressure lowering medications. Unfortunately, prescription drugs are toxic, and there are far better ways to deal with this problem.  Decreased sodium intake, increased potassium intake, increased physical activity and supplementation with magnesium and CoQ10 are effective choices.  This new data adds fiber to the list. …

Question: When I hear you speak, you make health sound so simple.  I wish it were that simple. E. S. – Novato, CA Answer:   There is nothing simple about human health.  It is extremely complex.  However, no one can deal with that level of complexity.  That’s why it is necessary to reduce the complexity to some simple concepts that anyone can understand and put to work in their life. After almost three decades of study, I have come to the conclusion that there are few “diseases” that cannot be effectively addressed by a change in diet and lifestyle.  The average American eats a diet that cannot and does not sustain healthy human life.  Even a small improvement in such a diet can have a big impact on health. Biologically speaking, there is a series of chemical reactions that create energy in the body.  These reactions are called the “Krebs Cycle.”  Everyone in our complex society knows that, without energy, nothing works.  The same is true for our bodies.  The production of e…

Question: What is the DASH diet? T. O. – Davie, FL Answer:   DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension and it is recommended to lower blood pressure.  The DASH diet was developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.  It is an eating style that resembles the diets consumed by people living around the Mediterranean that is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean poultry, nuts and beans, including reduced salt intake.  Best of all, it is effective in lowering high blood pressure, which has become a massive public health problem. A recent study in Circulation:  Journal of the American Heart Association looked at rural and urban populations in China, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.  It sheds some light on why this diet works.  An amino acid, glutamic acid, commonly found in vegetable protein is associated with lower blood pressure.  People who eat more plant foods have a higher intake of glutamic acid. Beyond Health recommends the DAS…

Question:   I have recently had surgery and my doctor has prescribed Coumadin.  Is there a healthy alternative?  T. X. – San Jose, CA Answer:   There is always a safer alternative to a prescription drug.  Drugs are toxic and they damage the body, causing more disease.  Coumadin interferes with vitamin K metabolism, which interferes with calcium metabolism.  This shifts the way the body handles calcium, causing it to remove calcium from bones and store it in soft tissues including heart valves.  Calcified heart valves, hardened arteries, weak bones, and painful joints are not what you want, but are what you get by taking Coumadin. Tell your doctor that you don’t want to use Coumadin, and you want them to help you do this safely.  You have to work with your doctor; don’t do it on your own.  Gradually, get on Beyond Health’s Anti-Thrombic Kit.  This consists of choline citrate, curcumin, fish oil, flax seed oil, garlic extract, ginkgo biloba and magnesium.  This add-on kit taken…

Question: I suffer from arrhythmia and my doctor wants to put me on drugs.  Is there a natural way to deal with this problem? D. J. – San Francisco, CA Answer:   Arrhythmia is an irregularity in the force or the rhythm of the heartbeat.  In truth, normal heart rhythms are irregular.  When irregularity goes outside of normal limits, and you start to experience irregular beats, flip-flops in your chest, pounding, racing, and skipped beats, this can be a sign of serious disease. The heart’s rhythm is controlled by an electrical impulse that is generated from a clump of tissue on the right atrium, called the sinoatrial node, often referred to as the heart’s natural pacemaker.  When you have arrhythmia, something has gone wrong with this electrical system.  Fortunately, in most cases this is easy to fix, but not with drugs.  Drugs are virtually never the solution to health problems, and anti-arrhythmia drugs carry a risk of serious side effects, including damage to the liver, lungs…

Question:   Isn't death and old age just another acceptable form of poor health?  We can only cure what we recognize.  If we can't recognize death as a disease that can be cured, then can we ever strive for that reality?  Aren't we all dying? – Internet Answer:  Great question.  We don’t fully understand the aging process.  Some people believe that our cells are programmed to divide only so many times and then they stop.  However, we do know that a population of about 30,000 people called the Hunzas who lived on the mountain peaks of the Himalayas, lived to be an average age of 120 without being sick a day in their lives. We recognize there is nothing that can be done about getting chronologically order, but there are things we can do to slow the progression of our biological age.  By keeping your biological age younger than your chronological age, you can age gracefully without disease.  Our mission at Beyond Health is about helping people to slow the aging process, remain bi…

Question:   I have been using turmeric in cooking; about a tablespoon of this spice powder.  Am I benefiting from ingesting it this way?  If I were to take supplemental curcumin, could I take it with food? B. D. – Ishpeming, MI Answer:   Curcumoids represent about 2% of the spice turmeric.  While there’s benefit in consuming turmeric, to make a major impact on a health concern, you’d be better off taking curcumin as a supplement.  Beyond Health Curcumin is an extract of turmeric standardized to contain 95% curcumin. Each capsule is 250 mg and provides 237.5 mg curcumin.  People often take several capsules a day to deal with inflammatory disease.  If you were to take supplemental curcumin, yes, you could take it with food.…

Question:   I have been taking a beta carotene supplement and I just read that a study showed that people who take beta carotene have a higher incidence of cancer.  Is this true?  I'd like to know what you think. K. E. – Macon, GA Answer:  There were actually two studies, in 1994 and 1996, which I am aware of that demonstrated a higher incidence of cancer in those taking beta carotene supplements.  I think the studies were well done, but there are lots of ifs, ands, and buts that muddy the water so that the conclusions can confuse people. Beta carotene is one of a family of compounds known as carotenoids.  Carotenoids are yellow, orange, and red pigments that are abundant in plants and fruits.  For example, the orange pigment in carrots is from beta carotene.  Carotenoids are known for their anti-oxidant properties, and they are known as the dietary source of Pro Vitamin A.  Vitamin A is necessary for normal metabolism and growth and it is important for vision and immune syste…

Question:   I have been suffering one infection after another.  Can you tell me how to boost my immunity? C. D. – Sausalito, CA Answer:  First of all, get out and get some sunshine.  The sun is a powerful immune system builder.  One of your problems may be that you are vitamin D deficient.  Even in the San Francisco Bay Area, there isn’t enough UVB in the winter to sustain vitamin D levels.  You should have your doctor measure your blood 25 (OH) D level. You must be sure to eat a good diet and supplement with high-quality nutrients.  Eat a mostly plant-based diet that is 75 percent or more raw food by volume. Sprouts and green vegetables are balanced and nourishing choices. Drink freshly made vegetable juices twice a day.  Be sure to drink pure water as regular tap water is toxic and immunosuppressive.  Use the Beyond Health Reverse Osmosis System for economical high-quality water.  Get on the Beyond Health Ultimate Wellness Kit and the Immune Support Kit.  Go to bowel toleran…

Question: I have tremendous allergic rhinitis.  I am congested most of the time.  I eat healthy, use supplementation, and exercise.  I live in a polluted city, but in a green area, outside of the center of the city.  What could be wrong? – Internet Answer:   I have had much success in helping myself and others to eliminate allergies.  First and foremost, you need to strengthen your immune system and reduce inflammation.  Implementing the lifestyle suggestions in my books is vital to your success.  Elimination of sugar, wheat, processed oils and dairy/excessive animal proteins (the Big Four) must occur.  You will need to replace these with fresh produce and other whole foods, including good oils like coconut, olive, flax and fish oils.  In addition, you need to take our pure and biologically active Multi-Vitamin and powdered Vitamin C to bowel tolerance along with our Immune Support Kit.  You will need large amounts of these until your immune competence has been restored. I sug…

Question: I have been hearing recently that calcium supplements can harm you by forming calcium deposits in your brain and arteries.  Is this true? – Internet Answer:   Yes, it is true if you use the wrong kind of calcium.  That’s why we use only organic calcium in our supplements.  Beyond Health’s calcium is reacted with organic acids to produce molecules are identical to the calcium found in produce – organic calcium.  Most calcium supplements are dangerous, because it is rare to find supplements with calcium that is an organic form, as ours is. The body doesn’t know how to handle the inorganic calcium, and it can easily be deposited where it shouldn’t be, like in the arteries.  The body does know how to handle the organic form, including getting rid of it if there is too much. Our position is that deposition of calcium in the soft tissue is caused by faulty calcium metabolism.  Here are some of the things that can cause faulty calcium metabolism: Using a poor form of…