Staying Hydrated

 Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-

                What a busy weekend! The weather has gotten very nice and people are out doing all kinds of things. I had planned a party on Saturday for a group of friends and not many attended because it seemed like many activities fell on the same weekend. That’s just the way it goes during the summer months with church picnics and reunions and food fairs and all kinds of activities. Two things I’ve noticed on the health aspect of this. The first is watching your hydration, making sure you’re getting plenty of water and electrolytes, or just see salt and mineral salt. Both parts are important to hydrate the body. We use a lot of our product called CAL-AMO during the summer months to keep people from feeling very weak and wore out, and to prevent muscle spasms and leg cramps. The second thing I’ve noticed, especially with the dry weather so far, is all the dust and pollen floating around in the air. We have great products to help the body clean drain the lymphatic’s and help with allergy symptoms. Many people are having problems with eyes watering and gunk and dirt in the eyes, and we have products to help protect the eyes from infection and help them to be able to clean themselves out. This comes back to the first point of keeping yourself hydrated so the body has the fluids to clean itself.

                We have changed our Health Shops and Patient Education Workshop schedules so that we will have a Patient Education Workshop on the first Monday of the month and then the question-and-answer Health Shop on the second Monday and a regular topic Health Shop on the fourth Monday. Call the office if you need more information on these events as were trying to get the word out to as many people who want to be healthy. After 40 some years of practice, we have lots of great information on how to prevent problems with health and well-being. I’m getting so many questions on how to get off of medications and how to feel good and energetic in life, and not just control symptoms and keep blood test numbers in a certain parameter. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

                The article to them sending along this week looks at an old topic that we’ve talked about many many times but it’s still important to review as our society is so built on having sugary things for all celebrations and events. Even after church, it seems to be the rule to have coffee and doughnuts which is a terrible way to start the day and be able to act in a Christian manner when you’re all jacked up on caffeine and sugar. At Natural Health, we help our patients to understand what the problem is with sugars and help them to get their sweet tooth under control. It’s important to realize that having a little sugar from time to time is okay but unfortunately, we get into a lot of it every day as you’ll find out in the article and the documentary that goes with it. Something folks may not realize is that the biggest problem with refined sugar is that there’s no nutrition in it at all, and the body must rob its reserves to utilize the sugar for energy, which it will. This is why degenerative diseases are so rampant in this country, and the fact that medication to treat symptoms is not nutrition, so no long-term healing, only more treatment. 

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Dr. Mark