Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We're all made of this earth, and it is earth water that fills that soggy mass of neurons in your skull. It is earth iron that turns your blood red, and earth air that fills your lungs with each breath. To honor the earth is to honor yourself, for you are not separate from this planet, and your own health is inevitably tied to the health of the world you inhabit. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I point all of this out because worrying about earth contaminating Mars seems rather silly on the large scale of things, since earth and Mars have probably cross-contaminated or, more accurately, cross-pollinated each other many times over the last five billion years. In fact, it may have been microbes from Mars that catalyzed life on earth in the first place.
And that would make us all Martians, right? |
David Steinman
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 It is morally reprehensible that America's second largest bank is connected with corrupt timber cartels that are directly responsible for the wholesale destruction of the most fragile and endangered forest ecosystems on earth. JP Morgan Chase's involvement in the illegal timber trade is not only a national scandal, but further proof that the company must put renewed effort into matching the environmental commitments of industry peers such as Citigroup and Bank of America."
In an e-mail to me, BlueLinx's Ashley E. Freer forwarded a message from Steven C. |
| But in the last fifty years, many of the most popular vitamin and mineral formulas are derived from almost wholly synthetically created nutrients more likely to have been fashioned from petrochemical starter materials and inorganic minerals in a laboratory than harvested from the earth." On the other hand, he said, New Chapter takes its wisdom from Nature. |
| Everybody who loves the earth ought to visit this Eden.
Indeed, according to the World Bank, the benefits to the nation have been enormous.2 Costa Rica, having set aside at least one-quarter of all its land for preservation, is now one of the most stable and robust democracies in Latin America, with a longstanding commitment to economic growth and social development. The combination of steady economic growth and sustained investment in human development has also led to a substantial reduction in poverty, which fell from 31.9 percent in 1991 to 18. |
| We have begun to stock carbon-neutral cleaning products from Seventh Generation, Ecover, and earth Friendly.
Most of our staff now are using cosmetics from Aubrey Organics, MyChelle, and Lily Organics. Our babies and children use safe shampoos from Aubrey especially. These products work truly beneficially for health and beauty and help us feel good about what we are doing as individuals who care deeply about America and who are striving to be green patriots.
I found Ecover dish soap at Mr. Moon's, the local Topanga general store. |
| Almost half of Earth's original forest cover is gone, much destroyed within the past three decades, according to a 1997 World Resources Institute report47
The Amazon has been described as the "lungs of our planet," because it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. More than 20 percent of the planet's oxygen supply is produced in the Amazon rain forest, according to The Nature Conservancy. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 What on earth Is Jicama?
Jicama is a root vegetable that is a staple in Mexican food. In its native habitat, it's sold as a street food in South America, with a squeeze of lime and a bit of fiery chili powder. It's a white-fleshed tuber that can weigh anywhere from half a pound to more than five pounds. Some people have characterized it as a cross between an apple and a potato. It looks like a turnip, has a thin brown skin that you can peel, and its taste is something like an apple but not quite. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I see where we are now, a kind of analogy would be: When a rocket blasts off and leaves the surface of the earth for the Moon, you expend about 70 percent of the energy just getting away from the earth, and then you get up into the Earth's orbit, where essentially with almost zero energy you can orbit the earth indefinitely. We're in the Earth's orbit now. Now we've got to fire the rockets to move off into the intergalactic space. There comes a certain point where a certain amount of momentum develops, and then you want to use the energy to just keep the rocket on track. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| This can be useful in constipation and indigestion—bowels move more easily with
Thp ico Hpalthipst Foods on earth increased bile flow, and unlike pharmaceutical laxatives, dandelion can be taken for a few months. Christopher Hobbs, a licensed acupuncturist and fourth-generation herbalist and botanist with more than 30 years of experience with herbs, writes that clinical and laboratory research on dandelion shows "a doubling of bile output with leaf extracts and a quadrupling of bile output with the root extract. |
| Earth ate this way. It is the diet to which all of us are ideally suited, and the lifetime nutritional plan that will normalize your weight and improve your health."
With liver—calf, chicken, turkey—the first and foremost thing that is important is the source. Commercially raised animals have all the problems talked about in the introductory essay (see page 187): The feeding practices and synthetic hormones and antibiotics taint the liver of the animal. |
| Another theory is that we humans are one of the few creatures on earth unable to make our own vitamin C; we must obtain it from our diet, and it's found most abundantly in sweet things like fruits. Nature, so the theory goes, gave us a sweet tooth so we would actually desire food without which we wouldn't survive.
No matter. We humans love sweet things, probably way too much for our own good. In Paleolithic times, a sweet tooth wasn't much of a problem. (There were no twenty-four-hour supermarkets in the caveman era. |
| Here's why: Just like every other creature on earth, the salmon conforms to the mantra "you are what you eat." The omega-3 fats in salmon are "made" by the salmon from their food, just like every other fish or animal creates its tissues from the stuff it eats. When salmon eat their natural diet in the wild (more on that in a moment), the result is a fish filled with wonderful omega-3 fats. But farm-raised salmon do not eat the "natural diet" of salmon, the diet that produces all those omega-3s. Farm-raised salmon eat grain—their diet has very little to do with what salmon eat in the wild. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| We have Ebola, SARS, the bird flu virus and other infectious diseases that have the perfect environment right here on earth in which to mutate, spread and multiply. In fact, human beings are quite susceptible to being killed by viruses. Ebola has a 90% fatality rate, for example.
At the same time, microbes from Mars pose an entirely new threat because they are unknown. They may present something never before encountered by molecular biologists. And that could potentially pose a serious threat to human life on planet earth (although I think the real risk of that is very small). |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Choose Your Grains Wisely
So do I want to wipe grains off the face of the earth? Of course not. Nor do I think we should never eat them. But between their very modest nutritional content, their propensity to trigger gluten and grain intolerances, their connection (for many) to carbohydrate addiction, and—despite good PR campaigns—their limited delivery of fiber, it's hard to see how grains are among the best foods on the planet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So it has water, it has sunlight and it has an atmosphere even today (although that atmosphere is certainly not of the density of Earth's atmosphere).
There's little doubt in my mind that we will find evidence of past life on Mars. In fact, I'm even optimistic about the possibility of finding living microbes on Mars today. We've seen extremophiles on planet Earth: microbes that can survive and thrive in extreme environments such as boiling water and the frozen tundra. So we know that microbes are capable of thriving under environmental conditions that we once thought could never support life. |
| I do support caution when it comes to possible cross-contamination between earth and Mars, but let's realize it is this cross-contamination that is most likely responsible for seeding life on earth, Mars, and other planets in other solar systems. Comets carry the seeds of microbial life. And when comets slam into planets, those seeds are not entirely destroyed. In fact, there was a recent study showing that microbes are capable of surviving these enormous impacts that scientists once thought would kill every living thing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I see where we are now, a kind of analogy would be: When a rocket blasts off and leaves the surface of the earth for the Moon, you expend about 70 percent of the energy just getting away from the earth, and then you get up into the Earth's orbit, where essentially with almost zero energy you can orbit the earth indefinitely. We're in the Earth's orbit now. Now we've got to fire the rockets to move off into the intergalactic space. There comes a certain point where a certain amount of momentum develops, and then you want to use the energy to just keep the rocket on track. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Today we're talking about the Earth's Promise product line. So, thanks for taking some time to sit down and chat.
Dr. Weiss: Oh, anytime.
Mike: Can you give people an overview of what this product is all about and why people might be interested in checking it out?
Dr. Weiss: We should probably try to keep it real simple. Absorbable nutrients are what it's about. It's about very, very busy people having a hard time getting fruits and vegetables into their life, and it's about making them easily accessible and making them taste good. Earth's Promise does all those things. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Putting it in perspective: Human civilization is a blip on the earth history timeline
Virtually everything modern civilization now values -- from technology and science to knowledge and intellectual property -- was developed in the last 5,000 years. And most of it in just the last 50 years. Yet with all the advances we've been able to create, and all the apparent mastery over the laws of nature, we've really only proved that we do not have the wisdom to live in harmony with our own world. We're destroying the ground beneath our feet, and that is not an attribute of an advanced civilization. |
| To honor the earth is to honor yourself, for you are not separate from this planet, and your own health is inevitably tied to the health of the world you inhabit. |
| Earth changes are accelerating at an alarming pace. Nature is giving humanity a dose of its own medicine, so to speak, and humans are poised to pay a dear price for the destruction they have unleashed upon the planet.
Of course, nature is not vengeful, and she does not act out of cruelty or anger. Rather, nature responds in kind to the treatment it has received. When humans treat nature with respect, she responds with abundant crops, predictable weather and stable ecosystems that sustain life. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 WHY THIS BOOK IS DIFFERENT
If there's one thing that sets The Most Effective Natural Cures on earth apart from the spate of other "natural cure" books it's this: research. Let me explain.
The major objection the average person is likely to hear from establishment doctors about "natural medicine" is that there's "no good research showing it works." We hear this constantly about vitamins, antioxidants, herbs, and all sorts of non-medical healing traditions (from acupuncture to shamanism). |
| But that said, the substantial research on the vast majority of ingredients in The Most Effective Natural Cures on earth should cause even the greatest skeptic to consider the possibilities that these noninvasive, gentle treatments could help heal a vast array of conditions and bring health to a vast number of people.
So why, you might ask, doesn't my doctor know about these treatments?
Ah, grasshopper, that is an excellent question. |
| The Best Liver Protection Around
SAMe is one of the most liver-friendly molecules on earth. The Life Extension Foundation calls it "serious medicine against liver disease," and I agree. The liver contains a high amount of SAMe, and one of the body's most important antioxidants—glutathione—is synthesized from it. Glutathione is absolutely central to keeping the liver healthy and helping it to do its many jobs, including detoxification. SAMe is seriously depleted in liver disease and has been shown in research to improve liver-function tests. And remember methylation (see page 309)? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Mars, it seems, is far more hospitable than some of these extreme environments on earth, and if we're finding microbes in such environments on planet earth, there is a very real possibility that they may be found on Mars.
In terms of life in the universe, I'm an optimist, because I think there is life on other planets in our solar system, not to mention the other solar systems in other galaxies in our universe. I think life is very successful, and that if there's any possible way to exist in a climate, you will find life there. |
| The greater concern in all of this is that we would contaminate Mars with microbes from earth. In the ongoing search for life on Mars, we are seeing increasing evidence of past life on Mars. We know, for example, that Mars once had oceans -- vast masses of liquid water -- and that Mars is close enough to the Sun to put it within the reach of sufficient solar radiation to support not just simple life forms, but ultimately complex life forms. So it has water, it has sunlight and it has an atmosphere even today (although that atmosphere is certainly not of the density of Earth's atmosphere). |
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