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The following report from NaturalNews shows that strontium is needed in our diets to stimulate bone growth and reduce risk of fractures.  The research keeps coming out, even though the facts have been known for some time.

I have been including strontium in my Coral Blend product for years.  I’m surprised it is not in all coral supplements, but it is not.  My advice is to make sure whatever coral product you use contains added strontium.

Fossilized stony coral is the preferred type of coral to take, not marine coral that is dredged from the sea floor and then super-heated to remove impurities.  The best coral, fossilized stony coral,  is mined from ancient deposits that are now above sea level. The oceans were completely pristine and free of pollutants when these deposits were laid down, so they do not need to be denatured by industrial processing.

When you buy a coral product, check for these 2 considerations:  1) that it is not marine coral, and 2) that it contains added strontium.  That way, you are much more likely to get what you are hoping for from coral supplementation.

NaturalNews) Calcium is known to prevent broken bones. But a study conducted on nurses from Harvard University showed that calcium was not an important nutrient for bone density. However, the mineral strontium has been shown to prevent bone loss and bone fractures. Over ten million Americans have weak bones while we consume the most calcium of any peoples in the world. The Japanese have half our rate of fractures and consume only one-third the calcium Americans do. Chinese rarely fracture bones and consume very little calcium.

The Harvard Nurses Health Study was conducted over a twelve-year period. Women were given 900 mg of calcium a day. Those who consumed the calcium had twice the amount of hip fractures as a group who only consumed 450 mg a day. Other studies concurred. A study of over 36,000 women gave one group a thousand mg a day of calcium and the other group a placebo. With both groups also taking vitamin D, the results were the same for each group. No change with the calcium supplementation.

Strontium usage for bone density has been in use since 1959. There are over 200 published studies on strontium and its effects on the health and formation of bone. The renowned Mayo Clinic conducted a study that showed great results. Recent studies have shown similar results. In women over the age of 80, adding strontium supplements decreased their risk of bone fracture by 59%. The New England Journal of Medicine also published a study that showed risk of fracture reduction of 49%. A control group in this study consumed both calcium and vitamin D, but did not show any reduction in the amount of bone fractures compared to the dramatic improvement in the group consuming strontium. In another study, height loss related to aging was reduced by 20%.

Strontium works in the body by stimulating the growth of new bone. It does this by attracting the other bone building minerals, such as calcium and magnesium. McGill University in Montreal conducted a study with supplemental strontium and showed that in just six months, study participants increased bone formation by 172%.

One of the best ways to keep bones strong is by exercise. Weight bearing exercise and weight training are great ways to build both strong muscles and strong bones. And add strontium to the diet. Hormones also have an effect on bone density and a bone density test can identify those in need of additional nutritional supplementation.

Strontium supplementation can be started at any age and there are no known side effects.

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I just got back from Ecuador where I was visiting an herbalist with a deep knowledge of healing plants that remain “secrets” from the perspective of North Americans, but which have been used for as long as anyone can remember in South America to heal the sick.

I make a point of getting to know the people who grow or gather the ingredients I use in my natural cure products. I visit them, see their operation, and spend time learning what they are about.  My meeting with Richard went a step beyond quality-assurance, as I will explain.

Richard gathers herbs from the valleys and mountains of Ecuador where he lives. During the days we were together, we walked through the countryside and he pointed out plants with particular healing properties.  Let me give you an example.

At one point, he suggested we walk over to a bush – but carefully!  He said the bush had long sharp spines that could “fly” if you got close to them, and that they contained medicine that was so powerful that if the spine sank too deeply into the body, it could cause trouble.  So we went up to the bush and he gingerly clipped a 3-inch spine from it. 

He asked me if there was any part of my body that hurt, and as it happened, I’d been having trouble with one of my thumbs.  I had strained it weeks before and there was a background ache that had lingered on.  He took my thumb and punctured it with the very tip of the spine-needle, and that was it.  A few minutes later, a boil appeared, perfectly round, with a little hole in the top where the needle had gone in.  Then there was a flow of puss, the boil went down, and so did the ache.  I haven’t been bothered by it since.

Richard told me that this is a standard native treatment for pain and inflammation.  I’d never heard of it.  He has 200 formulations based on local plants, and some products which I will be testing for use in my practice.  I’ll have more information about them in coming months. It is extraordinary how little we really know about the healing properties of plants and the healing wisdom of peoples outside of our own culture.

While I was still in Ecuador, I learned a native shaman’s view of why this is so. He told me that the “bird of the north” was the eagle, and the “bird of the south” was the condor, and that the eagle and the condor had, just this year, begun flying together,

I knew better than to interrupt him with questions.  The thing to do with a shaman is to sit and let the vision unfold. 

He went on to say that in the North, people had become unhappy because they had become “people of the world” and were more interested in things of the world than they were in each other or in the earth that sustains us.  That is why the condor could not fly with the eagle.

But now that the chaos has come to a head, the eagle is changing direction and will be able to learn from the condor – meaning that we in the north will be able to relax and appreciate each other, and live by more wise values than greed.

The thing about him was how positively he viewed what was going on.  The crisis in the world is, in his view, an opening to a deeper wisdom.  It reminded me a lot of how I counsel my patients when they are confronted with a health crisis like cancer or some other life-threatening condition.

First and foremost, it is a huge opportunity for positive transformation.  The crisis is an expression of underlying imbalances usually present for decades, that the body just cannot support any longer.  If we seize the time, make changes in the direction of a wiser way to treat our basic nature, and develop a profound harmony in the way we eat, drink, live, and think, then so-called “miracles” can occur. 

It is not just our world that has been out of balance, but our own bodies and minds.  I invite you to participate in your own healing, and to step boldly on your journey to radiant health, irrespective of your current condition.  The way to genuine happiness and well-being is through joyful cooperation with our nature and each other, and the message is repeated by the wisdom traditions of every corner of the planet. 

It was a good trip to Ecuador and I will be bringing benefits from there to you soon, in the form of medicinal herbs that have previously been unknown to the people of the eagle! 

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If your liver is slow and sluggish, it can affect your entire body.  Symptoms that you have had for years may be due to a slow and sluggish liver. Let’s say you wake up every day with a headache.  It could be your liver.  Or perhaps you have blurred vision.  That too could be a liver problem. 

If your liver is sluggish you are going to feel lethargic; you may lose your ability to concentrate clearly.  Often, people who wake up tired in the morning after sleeping all night have livers that are over-worked and sluggish.

If you want optimum health and longevity, you need to take care of your liver, and that includes detoxifying it on a regular basis. There are plenty of things that you can do. 

Hydrating the body helps a lot – and not just the liver.  You can also do coffee enemas.  Milkthistle and dandelion root and other herbs can be taken with tea to detoxify and open the liver.  You can also do a liver flush.

I just added a Liver Cleansers page to my web site  that has all the details you need.

Dr. James Chappell

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In these uncertain economic times, we are all looking for ways to cut expenses. I’m concerned that preventive health care may be put on a back burner.  That would be a major false economy.  Who can afford to get sick?  Sickness has been a fast-track to bankruptcy for many Americans.  Now more than ever, with the stress mounting, it’s up to us to keep ourselves healthy. 

My Natural Cures web site is devoted to providing you with the information and tools you need to assure your health.  To make it easier for my patients to take good care of themselves, I have decided to cut the prices of all Dr. James Chappell Products. 

Frankly, I do not depend for my living on these products.  I am first and foremost a clinician. I formulated my products so I could be confident of the quality of herbs and supplements that I was prescribing to my patients so they can enjoy radiant health.  I take them myself.  So do my family and friends.  They are made with only top quality organic or wild-harvested ingredients - no compromises, no fillers — nothing but the best. 

So I am happy to be able to respond to the economic climate by making these top quality products available to you at a new level of value.   There is nothing more important for us to invest in than our health.

What with the uncertain economic times and the stress that we are all under, I’m going to be putting out information about very inexpensive ways we can make profound improvements in our health.  We couldn’t afford to get sick before.  Now, it’s even more important that we take good care of ourselves — and our pocketbooks.

I’m going to put the details on my web site so they will always be available, without the short shelf life of blog postings, and I’ll let you know here whenever there’s anything new.

There’s a new page on the site called How To Detox.  It has 3 different detox plans on it.  The first one shows how you can detoxify for less than 25 cents a day.  It’s definitely worth taking a look at.  I also revised the  Zeta Crystals page that describes the benefits of electrolytic minerals in “charged” water.

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“The length of life is inversely proportional to the rate of exhaustion of the enzyme potential of an organism. The increased use of food enzymes promotes a decreased rate of exhaustion of the enzyme potential.” -Dr Edward Howell

Cooking kills enzymes.  Unless you are willing to switch to eating a lot more raw food (which most of us are not), then an enzyme supplement is essential for optimal health and longevity.  That’s why I formulated ProDigestives.  It is the first enzyme product to contain both food and proteolytic enzmes to give you the full compliment of enzymes that you need.

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