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Sorry is Not Enough
All too often we use the word “sorry” to diff use the immediate occurrence. Unfortunately, most of the time that we utter this word it is disingenuous, becoming systematically robotic. When somebody pushes back, we purge with the “s” word. What this achieves is nothing good and only adds fuel to the deeply suppressed, unconquered, issues from the past. These hostile memories raise their ugly head on an on-going basis until we are ready and willing to dismiss them by genuinely acknowledging their teaching.
All of us, myself included, often brush things aside rather than taking the time to address them straight on. Time and again we recycle this pattern and, quite often, refuse to resolve it. This is not a cyclical process that is there to annoy you, but a brilliant teaching begging you to learn. Respecting the possibilities that this lesson will bring by embracing the event, either comfortably or uncomfortably, certainly enriches your conscious reserves, fueling a smoother future. Forgiveness is the grown-up in the room that requires thought and demands respect. Being sorry is the bully that is unwilling to recognize it has created the problem. Do we want to live in the fog or the brilliant sunlight?
Relevant to this is the fact that forgiving is one of the most genuine gifts you can share with someone. Years ago, I received a call from a man who spoke about his younger brother that he had not talked to in 10 years. Inquiring why there was this discourse, he shared that when the brothers had been working together, the younger brother had cheated him one day, then he abruptly said, “But I love him and want to help him because he is now sick!” I asked if his brother knew that he cared so much and he said, “No, I do not want to talk to him.”
Changing the conversation, I fi nally came around to proposing that maybe his illness stemmed from a broken heart and abandonment from a brother who looked up to him. Dead silence stilled the room; tears came to his eyes and he said “I’m also sad and sick.” Proposing that we have a meeting together, he let go and said he would love it. Together, they went through the Hippocrates, Life Transformation Program and, on a daily basis, it was clear to see that their unwarranted estrangement had literally rendered both men emotionally and physically ill.
People tend to linger in the memories of the past since they fear the future. Their reduced perception is due to the closing of their hearts via perceived burdens. All too often they try to resolve these issues with conventional psychiatry or medicine. At best, this veils the issue driving it deeper into their core. We are creatures of need and our greatest need is to love and to be loved. Defl ecting from this drive abolishes the strength and integrity of truth. Forceful expression of sincere forgiveness is our greatest ally in life’s abundance.
Do not blame others for your creations; create perpetual power by switching on your release valve. Tai chi was born as a martial art for wars of yonder years. Until recently, soldiers would adorn themselves with heavy metal armor and systematically, in a line, rapidly run toward their foes in an open fi eld. Inevitably, the weight of this protection combined with the laborious eff ort the soldiers underwent often caused them to fall. The Tai chi warriors realized that if they moved rapidly out of the way of these soldiers that they would not have physical contact and the warrior would not only fall, but eventually, become exhausted and give up. This little story may help you in understanding why letting go is much more powerful than fi ghting. The ultimate shield is to succumb to the humbleness of forgiveness.
Living in Oregon in the seventies in a small cabin about two miles from another person, I needed to heat my home with wood. Soon, I learned how to use an axe and a manual saw and it often took all of my might to heat my abode. One day, as I was talking with a local telling how I had to saw wood for hours each day, he asked if I had ever used a chainsaw. Fibbing, I said, “Yes!” He handed me one and off I went. What a revelation I had the following day when it only took one hour, rather than four, to knock down the old, dead trees.
Two weeks later, I expressed how happy I was for his generosity and concern and shared that I had cut my work down by three quarters. He suggested that I must have enough wood for all the homes in this valley and I replied, no, just enough for mine! He asked how I was using the saw and when I explained, he asked if I knew that you need to sharpen the blade and put oil on the saw? Seemingly, he saw right through me and realized this chainsaw was a new experience for me. My perception was I had gone from four hours to one hour which was a great improvement and far less laborious. If I had only been open to ask him how to use the chainsaw, my hour of work could have
been achieved in only 5 minutes.
I’ll always remember him looking at me, smiling and saying, “I forgive you for fi bbing, but you’ll have to forgive yourself for wanting to do more work than you should have!” Needless to say, once I let go, I was able, willing and ready to learn. When pretending to be something that you are not, it always prevents you from being the best you.
Forgiveness is not only something that has to do with your emotional state, this genuine act of compassion can reduce body burdens, spiritual anchors and unhappy lives. The burning, heartfelt passion of release is the magnifi cent bell that rings diminishing emptiness. When one lets go, they can be fi lled. When one is fi lled, they become whole. When one is whole they become happy and when you’re happy, you are living the way you were meant to live.
THE GUT FA C T O R
HUMAN GUT BIOME RESTORATION AND REGENERATION WITH GROUNDBREAKING WHOLE FOOD, PLANT-BASED NUTRACEUTICALLY ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION hrough our Life Transformation Program (LTP),Hippocrates has been a pioneer in Holistic Lifestyles, high level wellness, rejuvenation and self-empowerment. We are continuously seeking to be the best in the industry. Our LifeGiveTM supplements are all whole food based, enzymatically active and non-GMO. Over the years we have had the benefi t of Dr. Edward Howell’s mentee, Viktoras Kulvinskas, guiding us in enzymology and enzyme product development. Based on the ongoing clinical experience at HHI and the joint eff orts of Anne Marie and Brian Clement and Viktoras Kulvinskas, we have T made several important discoveries which we are now ready to share with you. Each breakthrough has led to the signifi cant upgrading of several of our essential supplements.
THE FIRST of the three new and improved LifeGiveTM products is the all important Internal CleanseTM . Dr. J. H. Tilden, MD, who was one of the early pioneers in the healing arts, famously stated, “All diseases are caused by toxemia and malnutrition.” No doubt, you are familiar with the old saying, “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” That said, addressing one’s internal toxemia is a top priority, hence our new improved Internal CleanseTM helps to restore the GI tract by overcoming the major challenges of slow peristaltic action (a.k.a. constipation), burning sensations, acid refl ux, distention, bloating , etc. This product has combined the impact of the non-habit forming herbal derived alkaloids (which lead to an immediate decrease in the intestinal transit time) with a wide range of extremely alkalizing super foods and herbs that results in the gradual, long term re-alkalization of the muscle tissue of the GI tract thus allowing one to return to normal bowel activity. The formula is enhanced by the addition of certain plant fi bers and strategic pre-biotics, which signifi cantly increase the proliferation of probiotic bacteria in the gut. In a healthy individual, over 60% of fecal matter is composed of these healthy gut microbial cultures. Proper usage of Internal Cleanse TM will lead to long term cleansing and detoxifi cation, and, when used in conjunction with MeltAway PlusTM, it accelerates fat burning and weight loss.
THE SECOND newly improved LifeGiveTM product is the HHI-ZYME Plus Digestive AidTM. The importance of enzymes has been highlighted in many professional journals and books and it is now fully understood how enzymes are intimately involved with not only the digestive and immune systems but all metabolic functions of the body. The book Food Enzymes for Health and Longevity showed documented studies indicating that nearly every degenerative disease, including aging, is preceded by digestive disorders and enzyme defi ciencies. Humans are designed to live on an enzyme-rich diet. The disparity between our divinely intended fare and our actual food choices leads to many unintended and, over time, grave consequences. For example, the immediate eff ect of consuming a cooked meal, which is devoid of all enzymes, is called post-meal leukocytosis. This is a condition where your white blood cell count shoots way up, as though the immune system has identifi ed an infection. Until your body has borrowed enough enzymes from the metabolic enzyme pool to support adequate digestion, this infl ammatory condition continues. Eventually, within a few hours after the meal being digested, the white blood cell count goes back to normal. In sharp contrast, cooked meals when accompanied by proper enzyme supplementation do not lead to the development of post-meal leukocytosis.
Continued enzyme borrowing leads to many undesirable outcomes, including digestive insuffi ciency, decreased immune function, accumulation of toxins and premature aging, not to mention all manners of degenerative diseases. With
stakes this high we cannot overemphasize the importance of taking digestive enzymes with every meal.
As a consequence, we have upgraded the HHI-ZYME PLUSTM to be 3 to 4 times stronger in terms of the individual enzyme potencies, and we have integrated AstraZyme™, which many consider to be the single most important breakthrough in enzymology in the last 50 years. AstraZyme™ is the proprietary combination of particular high potency proteolytic enzymes, full
“THE IMPORTANCE OFENZYMES HASBEEN HIGHLIGHTED INMANY PROFESSIONAL JOURNALSAND BOOKSANDIT ISNOWFULLY UNDERSTOOD HOWENZYMES AREINTIMATELY INVOLVEDWITH NOTONLY THEDIGESTIVE ANDIMMUNE SYSTEMSBUT ALLMETABOLIC FUNCTIONSOF THEBODY.”
spectrum minerals and AstraGin™. AstraGin™ is the patented nutraceutical developed over the past dozen years at the cost of more than $10M in research. AstraGin™ is essentially a concentrated form of two of the most important herbs (Astragalus membranaceous and Panax notoginseng) found in the 5000+ year old body of ethnobotanical knowledge known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). In essence, AstraGin™ has been proven in more than a dozen in vitro studies and several in vivo studies to enhance the ABSORPTION of certain amino acids by as much as 66% and certain vitamins by up to 50% as well as many other important phytochemical components by similarly signifi cant percentages. Basically AstraGin™ is the world’s premier botanical based nutrient absorption enhancer. Furthermore, AstraGin™ was demonstrated to be able to aff ect what is known as the “re-epithelialization of the intestinal cell wall.” This is a fancy way of saying that it is able to restore a damaged intestinal wall. This is crucial in light of the prevalence of the myriad forms of compromised intestinal cell wall integrity and function ranging from the epidemic rates of excessive intestinal permeability (e.g. “Leaky Gut Syndrome”) all the way up to and including full blown Infl ammatory Bowel Disease. The paramount importance of the human gut-biome has gained tremendous scientifi c validation while also becoming a mainstream topic of discussion. Hippocrates famously said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” and certainly here at HHI we have been well aware of this since our inception. Nowadays it is common to hear on TV commercials and even in casual conversations that as much as 70% of the immune system resides in the human gut. Right behind that awareness is the growing recognition that many neurotransmitters are actually created in the gut and function within the human gut-biome which is often referred to as, “a second brain.” Furthermore, many psychiatrist have had great success in actually replacing pharmaceutical mood enhancing psychotropic drugs with probiotics and even fermented foods. By the way, our newly reformulated line of InstinctTM probiotics was developed with all of this in mind. Follow your gut-instinct and give them a try: You will be glad, even elated, that you did. Another lesser known fact about nutrient absorption, especially regarding amino acids, is the substantial percentage of these important building blocks that are required on a daily basis to continuously rebuild the tissue of the GI tract. By some accounts, that percentage is up to or even greater than 50% of an
individual’s total protein intake. This biological imperative places even more importance on the digestion and especially the absorption function in light of this daily requirement just to meet normal maintenance needs of one’s digestive and eliminative apparatus.
To restate this, in summary and in more simple terms, the new and improved HHI-ZYME PLUSTM is designed to enhance both digestion (i.e., the breakdown of foods and the bioavailability of its nutritional components) and, equally as important, the actual ABSORPTION of those nutrients. This enhanced absorption is the direct eff ect of the inclusion of AstraZyme™/ AstraGin™ in the formula. HHI spared no expense in developing this most advanced digestive aid and absorption enhancer.
THE THIRD new and improved LifeGiveTM product is MeltAway PLUSTM. This already outstanding, tremendously popular and effi cacious original MeltAway formula, combines extremely high concentrations of protease, amylase and lipase enzymes with a strategic team of herbal extract superstars too comprehensive to detail in this article. Suffi ce it to say, it was no easy task to improve the original MeltAway formula … and then along came InnoSlim,™ a profound and patented nutraceutical compound. Extensive research on InnoSlim™ (16 in vitro studies and 2 in vivo studies) has shown it to regulate glucose, fat cell and muscle cell metabolism, and to have positive eff ects in reducing glucose absorption and in increasing fat cell combustion and muscle cell glycogen synthesis. InnoSlim™ actually increases the secretion of adiponectin which is the hormone involved in the burning of brown fat (a.k.a. “bad fat … belly & butt fat”) … you get the picture. In fact, since a picture is worth 1000 words, and this article has nearly reached its designated word limit, it might be best to fi nish with an illustration that is based on the aforementioned compendium of scientifi c and clinical research. Take a look at the illustration that follows. The addition of InnoSlim™ to the original MeltAwayTM makes MeltAway PlusTM the most advanced naturally derived, evidence-based “fat burner” imaginable.
InnoSlimTM: A Clinically Evaluated Natural Compound That Has Signifi cant Positive Eff ects on Weight and Metabolic Syndrome Management
InnoSlim TM’s Biological Pathways/Mechanisms on Regulating Metabolic Functions
IN SUMMARY as you can plainly see, Hippocrates Health Institute is committed to bringing you the very best in cutting-edge, research-backed, evidence-based nutrition and supplementation. We’ve been ahead of the curve all along and now we are literally creating the new frontiers of optimum health and wellness with our Life Transformation ProgramTM and LifeGiveTM supplements by combining age-old wisdom, time-tested knowledge and twenty-fi rst century scientifi c breakthroughs… all intended to benefi t you, our beloved family. FOR MORE INFORMATION + regarding important breakthroughs in enzymology, be sure to read Food
Enzymes for Health and
Longevity by Dr. Edward Howell, where specifi cs are spelled out in great detail.
