If you apply the information from this guide, it may help you ignore calendar years and become AGELESS and YOUTHFUL. I will share with you a lot of tips I have learned since 1995 regarding nutrition and natural remedies. Many people have overcome serious health challenges by following these lifestyle recommendations and using the suggested products on this site.

People put too much emphasis on chronological age. Age is just a number that wouldn’t mean much if we didn’t associate it with conditions that we are constantly reminded to expect in later years. If you watch much television, the ads will certainly make you associate advanced calender years and grey hair with arthritis pain, impotence, senility, and a host of other ailments, both physical and mental. I assure you IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY, if you follow a few proven techniques.

The average person has been brainwashed to think that as time goes by we are supposed to get older while deteriorating in body and mind. The tips on this website can help you control your biological age and in some cases.....turn back the clock. Learn ways to safeguard your health and  biological age so you can expect to live a long, energetic, and productive life.

The human body is self-cleansing, self-repairing and self-healing. It just needs the right (natural) tools to support those functions. People who live a healthy lifestyle, cleanse regularly, eat the right foods, avoid toxins, take the right supplements, and drink enough water enjoy a high rate of  vibrational energy. An acid, toxin-polluted body can only take in a limited amount of oxygen causing the deterioration of natural body functions, thus allowing disease to take over.

This wellness and life extension guide will teach you how to draw upon your body’s own natural resources of health, energy and longevity.

“Thy Food Will Be Thy Remedy! - Hippocrates –Nature has provided a remedy for every ailment.

THE KEYS TO HOLISTIC HEALING

1) Flush out the toxins. We are constantly exposed to toxins through inhalation, ingestion, and topical exposure. Toxins and chemicals can invade the cells, breaking them down and diminishing our resistance to disease. Acute toxicity can cause chronic ailments, tumors, reproductive complications, biological mutation as well as skin and eye irritations. Clean and nourish your cells to pave the way to better health. (Support available from Young Living Essential Oils and MaxGXL)

2) Boost the immune system. Our immune system protects us from invading organisms. Immune cells cooperate to rid the body of unwelcome invaders such as bacteria or viruses. Malfunction of the immune system can result in many diseases such as allergies, cancer, colds, flu..... the list is endless.  A strong immune system helps us fight off the many microbes which are always around and to which we are exposed every day. (Support available from Young Living Essential Oils, (especially Ningxia Red), and MaxGXL) 

3) Balance your body pH. Create an alkaline internal environment. The pH level of  internal fluids affects every cell in our bodies. Chronic overacidity corrodes body tissue and will interrupt all cellular activities and functions from the beating of the heart to the neural firing of the brain.  You can test the pH levels of saliva, urine, and blood. Blood pH should be 7.365 (slightly alkaline). The relationship between acid and base is scientifically quantified on a scale of 1 to 14 known as pH. On that scale 7 is neutral. Below 7 is acid and above it alkaline.  Urine should be slightly acidic or neutral.  Saliva tends to be erratic. (Support available from Young Living Essential Oils)

4) Increase oxygen in the cells. Oxygen carries the energy of life itself. Anaerobic microbes cause disease. (The term anaerobic means “without oxygen”). Anaerobic microorganisms cannot live in active forms of oxygen. Keeping the body well oxygenated helps us be free of disease. (Support available from Young Living Essential Oils)

5) Raise the vibrational frequency of the body. All atoms have vibrational motion. Each periodic motion has a frequency (the number of oscillations per second) measured in Hertz. Dry herbs 12-22 Hz. Essential oils 52-320 Hz. (Rose oil has the highest vibration of any substance.) Einstein’s theory of energy asserts that all matter is energy. Scientists have measured the body’s vibrational frequency when people are in various physical and emotional states. See Articles page for Increase Your Vibration.....Change Your Life. (Support available from Young Living Essential Oils)

6) Boost your glutathione levels. Glutathione (GSH) is a small protein produced naturally in our cells if the requisite precursors are present. It functions both as an antioxidant and an antitoxin and is a major defense system against illness and aging. Our glutathione level actually indicates our state of health and can predict longevity This small protein, produced naturally in the body, maintains three crucial protective functions: it acts as an antioxidant, a blood booster and a cell detoxifier. In fact, your life depends on glutathione. Without it, your cells would disintegrate from unrestrained oxidation, your body would have little resistance to metabolic acids, and your liver would shrivel up from the eventual accumulation of acidic toxins. Unfortunately, raising our body's glutathione levels is extremely difficult for two reasons. Eating enough glutathione-rich foods only works in an idealized world where stress, deadlines and fast food are not factors. Orally supplementing glutathione is a good idea, but just not practical. The fragile tripeptide structure of glutathione makes surviving the digestive tract a near impossibility. A researching medical doctor has found the answer.  (MaxGXL) See http://www.peggycarey.com/maxgxl.html

7) Eat at least 40 to 60% of your fruits and vegetables raw (and organic if possible). Raw foods available from Whole Food Farmacy and Young Living Essential Oils. Thieves Household Cleaner from Young Living makes a good vegetable wash.

Why Raw Food?

Because from thirty to eighty-five percent of the nutrition in foods is destroyed in cooking. That is an average fifty percent loss! Fresh, raw foods contain the highest level of enzymes. Enzymes are the catalyst for the hundreds of thousands of chemical reactions that occur throughout the body. Cooked foods and processed convenient diets have been denatured and are devoid of enzymes - life-promoting elements. While they may maintain life they do not promote optimum health or longevity!

To site an example of the "healing power" of certain raw foods, chlorophyll from wheatgrass contains an ingredient called abscissic acid, which kills many cancer cells immediately on contact.

To learn about one effective health-promoting lifestyle based on eating a largely  raw-foods organic diet and living in unspoiled nature, read J.I Rodale's The Healthy Hunzas: a nation of aproximately 20,000 people (1938) living in a secluded valley of the Himalayas who knew no cancer, heart or other degenerative disease before the advent of Western civilization.

What are the benefits of a raw food diet?

To prepare raw foods you will need tools such as a juicer, a food processor, a coffee grinder, and a dehydrator. Two excellent sources for prepared raw foods are Young Living Essential Oils (Ningxia Red liquid juice supplement, and dried wolfberries) and Whole Food Farmacy (soups, drinks, fruit, nut, seed, and vegetable snacks).

8) Avoid toxic chemicals. Learn to read labels! If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it, inhale it or put it on your skin. Processed and prepared foods, personal care, and household products have many chemicals that are linked to a long list of chronic ailments.  Both Young Living Essential Oils and Whole Food Farmacy are excellent sources of chemical free personal care and household products.

9) Drink enough water to keep your body well hydrated. The body is 70% water and pure, chemical free water is important for total health. Water is key to all body functions including: digestion, circulation, bones and joints, assimilation, elimination, muscles, nerves, glands and the senses.  Pure, pH balanced or alkaline water is one of your best natural protections against all kinds of diseases and viral infections, such as influenza and pneumonia. Water is vital to all body fluids, tissues, cells, lymph, blood and all glandular secretions.  It contains all nutritive elements in solution, as well as toxins and body wastes. It is the main transportation medium throughout the body for nutritional and cleansing purposes.

Dr. F. Batmanghelidj, MD says in his book You’re Not Sick, You’re Thirsty! “Reap the benefits of one of the greatest health discoveries of all time! Learn the crucial role water plays in these and many other conditions and ailments”:

WATER: FOR HEALTH, FOR HEALING, FOR LIFE

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10. Minimize stress.  As the evidence builds, conventional medicine is finally beginning to understand how deeply stressful emotions can harm your physical and mental health, making you vulnerable to all kinds of serious ailments and diseases including cancer and heart failure. A fun way to deal with stress is to wear a Zest Lady Whiffer™ aromatherapy diffuser pendant containing a calming therapeutic grade essential oil . Oils available from Young Living Essential Oils and Whiffer™ from Zest Lady Aroma Pendants.

ZEST LADY FAVORITE PICKS

YOUNG LIVING ESSENTIAL OILS

Oil blends
   Valor, Purification, Sensation, Thieves, Peace and Calming, Aroma Life

Single oils
   cedarwood, lavender, lemon, frankincense

Supplements
   Ningxia Red, HRT (heart support tincture), Sulfurzyme (MSM), Longevity (oil capsules), Comfortone (regularity)

Chemical free personal care and household products
   Prenolone Body Cream (balances hormones), Boswellia Wrinkle Cream, Thieves Household Cleaner (concentrated, all purpose)

NINGXIA RED LIQUID SUPPLEMENT

WHOLE FOOD FARMACY
   Organic Cranberry Phi (raw fruit, nuts, and seeds)
   Apple Cinnamon Phi
   Farmacy Pro Power (mint flavored green drink equal to 8 vegetable servings and great in chocolate rice milk)
   Farmacy Citrus Shampoo (so pure you could drink it)

MAXGXL (raises glutathione, the Master antioxidant levels)

ABOUT PEGGY CAREY

Peggy Carey, The “Zest Lady” is co-author of 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 3 and Wake Up....Live the Life You Love: A Search For Purpose. She has studied holistic health and healing since 1995 and is a Wellness Coach, author, a successful network marketing professional, and designer of Zest Lady Aroma Pendants ™.

Having learned of the dynamics of holistic healing and natural remedies through an experience with a cat companion, she hosted the country’s first Natural Pet Care Expo. Peggy acquired the name “Zest Lady” because of her ageless, youthful living, and longevity advice through her presentations and articles such as Pursuing Postmenopausal Zest which can be found on the Articles Page.

Her aromatherapy pendant design is featured in “favorite picks” on the jewelry section of About.com and can be purchased at www.zestladyaromapendants.com.  She admits to being a married Cougar and has just started CougarCoach.com, a blog for women of any age who enjoy the company of younger men.