System Remedy

The structure of the female breast is complex. It consists of fat and connective tissue, as well as lobes, lobules, ducts and lymph nodes. Each breast has a number of sections (lobules) that branch out from the nipple. Each lobule holds tiny, hollow sacs called alveoli. The lobules are linked by a network of thin tubes (ducts). If you're breast-feeding, ducts carry milk from the alveoli toward the dark area of skin in the center of the breast (areola). From the areola, the ducts join together into larger ducts ending at the nipple.

Spaces around the lobules and ducts are filled with fat, ligaments and connective tissue. The amount of fat in your breasts largely determines their size although the actual milk-producing structures are nearly the same in all women. Female breast tissue is also sensitive to cyclic changes in hormone levels. Younger women might have denser and less fatty breast tissue than do older women who've gone through menopause.

Muscles lie underneath the breasts, separating them from your ribs. Oxygen and nutrients travel to breast tissue through the blood in your arteries and capillaries (thin, fragile blood vessels). While there is no muscle tissue in the breast, it has been proven that all exercises that include the pectoral muscles will help keep the breasts from being affected by gravity. The overall health of the pectoral muscles are controlled by the health of the stomach and liver, so keeping those organs healthy is critical to breast tissue staying lifted.

Fun Facts

• The average breast weighs 1.1 lbs and contains 4-5% of the body's fat.
• The average breast size in America is currently a 36C, although 15 years ago it was a 34B.
• Breast milk tastes sweeter than cow's milk.
• Smokers will have more droop to their breasts than non-smokers, because the chemicals in cigarettes break down the body's elastin.

Health Conditions

• Mammograms, yes, are a health risk! The pressure applied is traumatic for breast tissue and can encourage a non-cancerous area to become cancerous because of the trauma. Use a Thermogram if you desire a medical breast exam. Click here for more info.
• Breast cysts are fluid-filled sacs within your breast.
• Breast lumps are generally fluid-filled sac or swelling of a lymph node.
• Fibrocystic Breast is when the breast tissue becomes lumpy, generally caused by a need for Progesterone.

Suggestions To Strengthen

• Avoid birth control. The extra estrogen in the body highly contributes to breast conditions and even cancer.
• Exercise regularly, it keeps the lymphatic system draining which is critical for breast health.
• Most breast lumps are congested lymph nodes, often caused by the aluminum and pore clogging agents in antiperspirants. Consider a natural deodorant.
• A mammogram puts so much pressure on a lump in the breast, the trauma can cause cancer in the lump that was not previously there. If you want a breast scan look into Thermograms rather than mammograms.
• Make sure you feel loved and nurtured (loved, cared for, special, protected) by your spouse. This is VERY important.

This Remedy helps with all Ovary, Fallopian Tube and egg/follicle cells (fertility). The ovaries are a pair of female reproductive organs. Each ovary is about the size and shape of an almond. They are located in the pelvis, one on each side of the uterus. The ovaries are connected to each other by the Fallopian tubes. The fallopian tubes are two thin tubes, one on each side of the uterus, which help lead the mature egg from the ovaries to the uterus. Some form of blockage, swelling, scar tissue or other conditions of the fallopian tube are a major cause of infertility.

The ovaries have two functions: they produce eggs (also called ova) and female hormones. Each month, when ovulation occurs, an egg is released from one of the ovaries. The egg travels from the ovary, through the tubes, and into the uterus. The sperm also need to swim their way from the cervix, through the uterus, and through the fallopian tubes to get the egg. Fertilization usually takes place while the egg is traveling through the tube.

The ovaries produce the main source of female hormones, estrogen and progesterone. These hormones control the development of female body characteristics such as the breasts, body shape, and body hair. The ovaries also regulate the menstrual cycle and pregnancy.

Fun Facts

• Girls are born with about 2 million eggs, by puberty they have about 400,000, but Only about 400-500 will ripen during their lifetime.

Health Conditions

• Egg 'Ripening' can be a problem because it requires a complex hormone cascade to occur.
• Blocked fallopian tube, also known as tubal factor infertility, is the cause of infertility in 40% of infertile women.
• Hydrosalpinx is when a blockage causes the tube to dilate (increase in diameter) and fill with fluid.
• Tubal, or ectopic pregnancy, occurs when the fallopian tube is partially blocked, the egg becomes fertilized inside the tube and does not move down to the uterus.
• Estrogen & Progesterone are complex hormones which must remain in perfect balance for both pregnancy and female health (including emotional).
• Ovarian cysts can form in or on the ovaries. The two common cysts are Follicle cysts and Corpus luteum cysts, which generally self correct. Other cysts include Endometriomas, Cystadenomas, Dermoid cysts, and Polycystic ovaries.

Suggestions To Strengthen

• Keep the thyroid and pituitary healthy.
• Regular exercise and healthy foods are important.
• Eating hormone free meats, eggs and dairy keep the body's natural hormone signals working more efficiently.

Vision begins when light rays are reflected off an object and enter the eyes through the cornea, the transparent outer covering of the eye. The cornea bends or refracts the rays that pass through a round hole called the pupil. The iris, or colored portion of the eye that surrounds the pupil opens and closes (making the pupil bigger or smaller) to regulate the amount of light passing through. The light rays then pass through the lens, which actually changes shape so it can further bend the rays and focus them on the retina at the back of the eye.

The retina is a thin layer of tissue at the back of the eye that contains millions of tiny light-sensing nerve cells called rods and cones. In bright light conditions, cones provide clear, sharp central vision and detect colors and fine details. Rods provide peripheral or side vision. Rods also allow the eyes to detect motion and help us see in dim light and at night. These cells in the retina convert the light into electrical impulses. The optic nerve sends these impulses to the brain where an image is produced.

Eye color is created by the amount and type of pigment in the iris. Multiple genes inherited from each parent determine your eye color.

Fun Facts

• Your eyes blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
• Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts.
• The eye muscles are the most active muscles in the whole body.
• 80% of what you learn is through your eyes.
• It is impossible to sneeze without closing your eyes.
• The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.
• Eyes are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain.

Health Conditions

• Astigmatism: A defect that causes an inability to properly focus light onto the retina.
• Myopia (nearsightedness): Inability to see clearly at a distance.
• Hyperopia (farsightedness): Inability to see near objects clearly.
• Conjunctivitis: Also known as "pinkeye," conjunctivitis is an infection or inflammation of the conjunctiva.
• Glaucoma: Increased pressure inside the eye slowly reduces vision.
• Cataract: A clouding of the lens, which hinders the passage of light through the lens.
• Strabismus: The eyes do not point in the same direction.
• Amblyopia (lazy eye): One eye sees better than the other, a problem of childhood development.
• Macular degeneration: A loss of central vision in both eyes.
• Pterygium: A thickened conjunctival mass usually on the inner part of the eyeball.
• Scotoma: A blind or dark spot in the visual field.
• Diplopia (double vision): Seeing double can be caused by many serious conditions.
• Retinal detachment: The retina comes loose from the back of the eye.
• Diabetic retinopathy: High blood sugar damages blood vessels in the eye.
• Stye: Bacteria infect the skin on the edge of the eyelid, creating a tender red bump.
• Chalazion: An oil-making gland gets blocked and swells into a bump.
• Hyphema: Bleeding into the front of the eye, behind the cornea.
• Blepharitis: Inflammation of the eyelids near the eyelashes.
• Corneal abrasion: A scratch on the clear part of the front of the eye.
• Keratitis: Inflammation or infection of the cornea.
• Retinitis: Inflammation or infection of the retina.
• Uveitis (iritis): The colored part of the eye becomes inflamed or infected.
• Dry eye: Either the eyes don't produce enough tears, or the tears are of poor quality.
• Optic neuritis: The optic nerve becomes inflamed, usually from an overactive immune system.
• Black eye: Swelling and discoloration around the eye as a result of injury to the face.

Suggestions To Strengthen

• As you go about your daily life, practice tracking moving objects and following things.
• Shift your gaze often. Fix your sights on something in one corner of the room, then the other in a rhythmic way. Focus near, then focus far. When you're reading, look across the room every 2 minutes.
• Any kind of eye condition responds very well to the herbal eye wash.
• Eye exercises are important because eye muscles have a lot to do with healthy vision.
• The health of the eye is controlled by the health of the liver so consider Liver Support.

The esophagus is the tube that delivers food from the mouth to the stomach. When swallowing occurs, food is pushed into the top of the esophagus and is then propelled onwards by waves of circular muscle contraction, called peristalsis. If necessary, this process can defeat gravity! Food, and even liquids, can be swallowed while standing on one's head. Muscles encircling the esophagus at the top and bottom provide sphincters that prevent air from being sucked in during inhalation, and regurgitation of stomach contents.

Fun Facts

• The diameter of your esophagus is about the diameter of a quarter.
• The thickness of your esophageal wall is about the width of 3 pennies.
• Muscles contract in waves to move the food down the esophagus.

Health Conditions

• Reflux can cause heartburn, cough or hoarseness, or no symptoms at all. When reflux occurs frequently or is bothersome, it's called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
• Esophagitis means something is causing inflammation of the esophagus.
• Barrett's esophagus is a disorder in which the lining of the esophagus is damaged by stomach acid and changed to a lining similar to that of the stomach.
• Esophageal Ulcer is an erosion in the lining of the esophagus. This is often caused by chronic reflux.
• Esophageal stricture is a narrowing of the esophagus generally caused by chronic reflux.
• Achalasia is a rare disease in which the lower esophageal sphincter does not relax properly. Difficulty swallowing and regurgitation of food are symptoms.
• Esophageal cancer, although serious, is uncommon.
• Mallory-Weiss tear occurs when vomiting or retching creates a tear in the lining of the esophagus. The esophagus bleeds into the stomach, often followed by vomiting blood.
• Esophageal varices occurs in people with cirrhosis; veins in the esophagus may become engorged and bulge. Called varices, these veins are vulnerable to life-threatening bleeding.
• Esophageal ring (Schatzki's ring) is a common, benign accumulation of tissue in a ring around the low end of the esophagus which may cause no symptoms, except for difficulty swallowing.
• Esophageal web is an accumulation of tissue (similar to an esophageal ring) that occurs in the upper esophagus. Like rings, esophageal webs usually cause no symptoms.
• Plummer-Vinson syndrome is a condition with symptoms that include chronic iron-deficient anemia, esophageal webs, and difficulty swallowing.

Suggestions To Strengthen

• Eat more raw, less cooked foods (118 degrees kills the enzyme action). If raw does not settle well in your stomach, steam your vegetables for three to five minutes. If a person has lots of longitude ridges on the fingernails, chances are they cannot absorb and digest nutrients, so steaming the vegetables is better than eating raw because they are much easier to digest.
• Fruit and cleansing foods are best as the first meal of the day with a hot herbal tea, not coffee.
• Make sure the bowels are evacuating well; which means once per meal eaten.
• A stomach sensitive person should consider food combining until they are better.
• If the issue is chronic, like bleeding or a tear in the esophagus, consider fasting or the Master Cleanse.

The ear has three main parts: the outer ear (including the external auditory canal), middle ear, and inner ear. The outer ear (the part you can see) opens into the ear canal. The eardrum (tympanic membrane) separates the ear canal from the middle ear. The three small bones that help amplify and transfer sound to the inner ear are the ossicles, the incus, and the stapes (also referred to as the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup). The inner ear contains the cochlea which changes sound into neurological signals and the auditory (hearing) nerve, which takes sound to the brain. Technically, sound is just a vibration, but your brain learns to interpret it into a recognizable format you decipher as speech, a song, a bird, etc.

The electrical stability of the cochlea depends upon the presence of minerals such as magnesium and calcium, and on a correct balance of necessary enzymes, fatty acids and amino acids. The tiny hair like cells called cilia are the final stage of sound transmission before the charge is sent to the auditory nerve. Slight disturbances in the equilibrium of enzymes can lead to the death of some of the cilia.

The ear is often referred to as the most energy hungry organ of the body. All parts of the ear require high quantities of nutrients to function properly and to avoid degenerative problems such as hearing loss or tinnitus. Only if the right elements and enzymes are present can the nerves successfully fire the precise signals at millisecond intervals required to accurately transmit sound.

The delicate balance of this system can be upset by insufficient oxygen due to poor circulation in the inner ear, a deficiency in the trace minerals essential for enzyme activity, a toxic overload being carried by the body or excessive free radical activity.

Fun Facts

• The ears contain the smallest bones in the body.
• Sound travels at the speed of 1,130 feet per second, or 770 miles per hour.
• Sitting in front of the speakers at a rock concert can expose you to 120 decibels, which will begin to damage hearing in only 7 1/2 minutes.

Health Conditions(omitting genetic disorders)

• Earache (pain in the ear) can have many causes.
• Otitis media (middle ear inflammation) is inflammation or infection of the middle ear (behind the eardrum).
• Swimmer's ear (Otitis externa) is inflammation or infection of the outer ear (pinna and ear canal). Chronic otitis is often a skin condition (dermatitis).
• Mastoiditis is an infection of the mastoid bone, just behind the ear.
• Meniere's disease is a condition in which the inner ear on one side malfunctions. Vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss, and pain are common symptoms.
• Tinnitus is ringing in one or both ears.
• Cerumen (ear wax) impaction can block the ear canal and adhere to the eardrum.
• Ruptured eardrum: Very loud noises, sudden changes in air pressure, or foreign objects can tear the eardrum.
• Acoustic neuroma is a noncancerous tumor that grows on the nerve traveling from the ear to the brain.
• Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is a disruption of function in the inner ear, causing episodes of vertigo.
• Cholesteatoma is the buildup of fibrous tissue within the middle ear and surrounding bones. Often there is a foul smelling discharge associated with hearing loss.

Suggestions To Strengthen

• Be careful not to blast your inner ear with music.
• Protect your ears from loud noises.
• Avoid using ear phones / ear buds.
• Don't dig deeply when cleaning your ears.
• Cover ears from extreme cold.
• Avoid ear piercings if possible.
• The ear tends to reflect the health of the Kidneys, so continual issues probably indicates you need to support the Kidney.

A firm, gelatinous substance called cartilage cushions the ends of the bones in the joints. Articular cartilage covers the ends of the bones like upholstery fabric on a chair. You may have seen cartilage at the end of chicken leg bones. Healthy cartilage has a smooth, slippery surface that allows two bones to glide easily in motion.

Because of the impact sustained by articular cartilage, there are no blood vessels in the cartilage to deliver moisture and its food, nor to remove its wastes. Instead, the cartilage receives its nourishment from fluid present around the joint. The synovial fluid is constantly being replaced-providing more nutrients and removing wastes.

When you're resting and not moving the joint, your cartilage absorbs nourishment from the surrounding synovial fluid. Your joint also releases its wastes into the joint fluid. Weight-bearing exercise compresses or squeezes your cartilage of the relevant joints. The compressed or squeezed cartilage oozes out some of its fluid containing wastes. When you release the pressure, the joint soaks up fresh fluid.

Cartilage is found in many areas in the bodies of humans and other animals, including the joints between bones, the rib cage, the ear, the nose, the elbow, the knee, the ankle, the bronchial tubes and the intervertebral discs. It is not as hard and rigid as bone but is firmer and less flexible than muscle.

Fun Facts

About 85 percent of cartilage is water.
The cartilage in our noses doesn't stop growing.

Health Conditions

Achondroplasia: Reduced proliferation of chondrocytes, resulting in dwarfism.
Costochondritis: Inflammation of cartilage in the ribs, causing chest pain.
Osteoarthritis: Bone on bone in joints, reduced motion, and pain.
Relapsing polychondritis: a destruction of cartilage, especially of the nose and ears, causing disfiguration. Death occurs by suffocation as the larynx loses its rigidity and collapses.
Spinal disc herniation : Asymmetrical compression of an intervertebral disc ruptures the sac-like disc, causing a herniation of its soft content. The hernia often compresses the adjacent nerves and causes back pain.
Traumatic rupture or detachment, common in the knees.

Suggestions To Strengthen

Keep hydrated, it is 85% water.
Exercise helps speed the exchange of used fluid in cartilage with nutrient- rich synovial fluid. It also helps build bone density and muscle strength. Exercise helps keep your joints, bones and muscles healthy.
Sugar, sweet drinks, processed foods, tea and coffee will all strip magnesium, calcium and vitamin C from the body. All of these elements are vital for the formation and repair of bone, muscle, cartilage and synovial fluid.
Look into Prolotherapy (find a doctor near) to rebuild cartilage before you EVER let anyone surgically cut into your body.

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body, and perhaps the most remarkable. It produces our every thought, action, memory, feeling and experience of the world. This jelly-like mass of tissue, weighing about 3 pounds, contains a staggering one hundred billion nerve cells, or neurons.

The complexity of the connectivity between these cells is mind-boggling. Each neuron can make contact with thousands or even tens of thousands of others, via tiny structures called synapses. Our brains form a million new connections for every second of our lives. The pattern and strength of the connections is constantly changing and no two brains are alike. It is in these changing connections that memories are stored, habits learned and personalities shaped, by reinforcing certain patterns of brain activity, and losing others.

Brain structure is shaped partly by genes, but largely by experience. The brain has bursts of growth and then periods of consolidation, when excess connections are eliminated. The most notable bursts are in the first two or three years of life, during puberty, and the final burst occurring in young adulthood. It was believed that after this point, brain cells slowly die off as you age and you would never get them back. This is not correct. Recently it was discovered that new brain cells are being born throughout our lives, a process called neurogenesis.

Fun Facts

• The slowest speed at which information travels between neurons is 416 km/h or 260 mph.
• Your brain is about 2% of your total body weight but uses 20% of your body's energy.
• The energy used by the brain is enough to light a 25 watt bulb.
• Albert Einsteins brain weighed 2.71 lbs, less than the average human, so it is not the size of the brain but the amount of connections within it that matter.

Health Conditions(omitting genetic disorders)

• Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disorder that impacts patients' memory and their ability to function normally. The disease affects reasoning ability and communication skills and may also cause personality and behavior changes, anxiety and irritability, or even delusions.
• Parkinson's disease is characterized by four main features: rigidity or stiffness of the arms, legs or neck; tremors, usually of the hands; bradykinesia or slowness and reduction of movement; and postural instability (loss of balance).
• Dementia is the name given to a group of conditions-Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease among them-that destroy mental function by attacking brain cells. Vascular dementia results from reduced blood flow to the nerve cells of the brain.
• Cerebral aneurysm is a weak spot on the wall of a brain artery or vein (like the weak spot on the inner tube of a tire) that is prone to dilation, bulging, or ballooning.
• Pervasive developmental disorders cause delays in the development of basic skills, including emotional, behavioral and social skills. Among the numerous conditions that belong to this group of disorders are Asperger disorder, Rett syndrome and Autism.
• Epilepsy is a neurologic disorder that results in recurring disturbances of brain function that can cause impairment or loss of consciousness, as well as abnormal movements or behavior.
• A stroke results from the blocking of an artery (due to blood clot) or from the bursting of a blood vessel in the brain.
• Brain tumors are tumors of the brain. Each year, nearly 200,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with the more than 120 varieties of brain tumors-either primary or metastatic-and brain tumors are now the leading cause of solid tumor death among children under 20 years of age.
• Brain metastases are tumors that first grow in tissues elsewhere in the body before spreading to the brain.
• Adult hydrocephalus is a condition in which excessive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) accumulates within the ventricles of the brain.

Suggestions To Strengthen

• Do not smoke or use tobacco
• Eat raw and living foods
• Exercise regularly
• Socialize and have fun
• Engage in mentally stimulating activities
• Maintain your role and sense of purpose
• Use all of your brain senses (see photo)
• Avoid clogged arteries

Bones give shape to structures such as the head, face, thorax and limbs. They also provide support and protection. For example, the bones of the skull protect the eyes, ears and brain. All of the bones together represent your skeletal system. In an adult, the skeleton comprises around twenty percent of the total body weight. The skeleton is the site of haematopoiesis, which takes place in red bone marrow.

Bone matrix can store calcium and is involved in calcium metabolism, and bone marrow can store iron in ferritin and is involved in iron metabolism. However, bones are not entirely made of calcium, but a mixture of chondroitin sulfate and hydroxyapatite, the latter making up 70% of a bone.

Bone cells release a hormone called osteocalcin, which contributes to the regulation of blood sugar (glucose) and fat deposition. Osteocalcin increases both the insulin secretion and sensitivity. It also boosts the number of insulin-producing cells and reduces storage of fat. Your bones have small blood vessels and lymphatic tissue for the maintenance and repair of bone tissue.

Fun Facts

• When you were born you had over 300 bones. As you grew, some of these bones began to fuse together and as an adult you have 206 bones.
• The longest and heaviest bone in the body is the femur found in the upper part of your leg.
• The smallest bone is the stapes bone in the middle ear.

Health Conditions

• Osteoporosis occurs when there is not enough calcium in the bloodstream so the body attempts to pull calcium from the bones, which thins and weakens them.
• Osteogenesis imperfecta is a genetic defect that affects how you make collagen, which is what makes bones strong so bones break easily.
• Rickets (which affects children) and osteomalacia (which affects adults) is a weakness of bones where they break down faster than they can form because of an imbalance in calcium or vitamin D.
• Renal Osteodystrophy happens when chronic kidney disease causes stimulation of bone metabolism caused by an increase in parathyroid hormones, and by a delay in bone mineralization that is caused by decreased kidney production of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D.
• Paget's disease of bone is a progressive, often crippling disorder of bone remodeling that commonly involves the spine, pelvis, legs, or skull (although any bone can be affected).
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) causes bones to be weak and break easily; this condition is also known as brittle bone disease.
• Bone tumors can originate in the bone (these are known as primary tumors) or more commonly, result from the seeding of bone by tumors outside of the skeleton (these are known as metastatic tumors, since they have spread from somewhere else). Both types of tumors can destroy bone, although some metastatic tumors can actually increase bone formation.

Suggestions To Strengthen

• Limit sugar, sweet drinks, processed foods, tea and coffee as they all strip magnesium, calcium and vitamin C from the body. All of these elements are vital for the formation and repair of bone, muscle, cartilage and synovial fluid.
• In order for bones to be healthy, the kidneys must be healthy and there must be adequate levels of Vitamin D3 in the body (even more important than calcium in most cases). Consider adding these to your Bone Support program.