Osteoporosis [is the price we pay for] chronic metabolic acidosis, which robs us of our mineral reserves and impairs efforts to rebuild the bone matrix. – Susan E. Brown, PhD, CCN, and Russell Jaffe, MD, PhD, CNN Both men and women are concerned about their bones.  Unfortunately, this well-founded concern (more than half the US population over fifty is affected by osteoporosis and low bone density) has led too many people to focus solely on loading up on calcium with or without vitamin D. We’ve written before about the need for a full “team” of nutrients to build bone. Our Bone Mineral Formula contains such a team—19 different nutrients interacting synergistically. But diet plays an even more central role in preventing osteoporosis, specifically when it comes to acid-alkaline balance. Bones aren’t just scaffolding; they’re also storage depots for minerals. Our survival depends on maintaining a certain range of pH (a measure of acid-a…

Our mission at Beyond Health is to help our customers go “beyond health.” This means going beyond what most people consider healthy.  Most people say they’re healthy if they’re basically functional: able to get up out of bed in the morning, hold a job, go to school, or take care of a family, and make some time for fun.  They may be plagued by allergies, digestive issues, headaches, fatigue, excess weight they can’t seem to lose, bad skin or hair, or other problems, and they may buy an over-the-counter medication to deal with one or more of these things, but they’ll still consider themselves healthy. Or, when they get a bit older and develop aches and pains, cognitive deficits, and diseases like arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes and heart disease, they “manage” their problems with prescription drugs and continue to say that they’re healthy.  We’ve known people on six different medications who consider them…

It’s been 12 years since Raymond Francis published his groundbreaking book, Never Be Sick Again (NBSA). At this point hundreds of thousands of dog-eared copies of this best seller are being used as trusted references for getting well and staying well. To incorporate all the new information that’s come out in the past decade, it was time for a revised edition. But Raymond wanted to create a new book with a more practical emphasis. The Great American Health Hoax will be available early in 2015. Like NBSA, it indicts the American “disease-care” system that focuses on alleviating symptoms at the expense of supporting the body’s inherent self-healing capacities. And, like NBSA, the new book presents a solution to the problem: Raymond’s one disease-two causes-six pathways model. But The Great American Health Hoax adds the equivalent of an automobile’s maintenance manual. Several “maintenance items” are introduced—health parameters we need to monitor. If they deviate too far f…