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Fasting and Healthy Lifestyles

December 31, 2008

 

Dear Friends,

 

As you know, I have been enthusiastic about health and healing for decades. I am blessed to have developed a program for people who want to be healthy but face a steep learning curve or are stymied by the challenges of everyday life.

 

I have relocated to Panama and have partnered with an ocean resort where people can immerse themselves in healthy living comfortably. For some, this will be a healing retreat and for others the gateway to a healthier way of living. 

 

Review the program below and e-mail to schedule your free information session to see if Salud de Oro is right for you.

 

Wishing you exuberant Health,

Dr Jennifer Daniels
vitalitycapsules.com
Your Tools For Self Healing

 

Please respond with your questions or interest to jdaniels.daniels@gmail.com

What is Salude De Oro?

Salud de Oro is Spanish for Golden Health. Dr Daniels practiced medicine as a Board Certified Family Practice Physician in the United States for 10 years.  During this time, she discovered the miraculous power of diet and fasting.  After years of guiding patients as they healed from lupus, fibromyalgia, colitis, diabetes, asthma, obesity, and other conditions, Dr  Daniels obtained further training in Hygienic healing – using fasting and diet to heal.

Dr Daniels has partnered with a hotel/resort to provide the ultimate experience in medically supervised fasting and experiencing healthy living. This program is Salud de Oro.

While fasting is an effective way to achieve deep cleansing, the benefits are fleeting unless a proper feeding program is followed afterward. This is why several days of feeding are recommended to cement the health benefits of fasting and make them long term. Further, this is also why you receive education in easy to understand terms. There are many sessions for questions and answers as well.

At Salud de Oro residents will experience the benefits of cleansing with maximal comfort and safety. Upon arrival, each resident receives a personalized plan tailored to achieve their goals. Medical supervision assures your program and/or medications are adjusted as the body heals itself. This maximizes your comfort and benefit.

WHAT PROGRAMS ARE AVAILABLE?

There are 5 programs available:

1.      Fasting; 2 days of feeding followed by a period of fasting and refeeding

2.      Juice fasting; organic vegetable and fruit juice made fresh daily

3.      Green Smoothie fasting; Green smoothies for Breakfast, lunch and dinner

4.      Feeding only. Organic whole food plant-based diet

5.      Feeding with vitamins and herbs

 

WHY FAST?

Every body has “deferred maintenance.” This means the immune system is occupied with day to day feeding, digestion, emotional responses to daily events and does not do “deep cleaning” or repairs that would allow us to have a better quality of life. This “deferred maintenance” may show up as autoimmune disease, hypertension, chronic pain, or any number of conditions. Fasting allows your body to divert resources from feeding, digestion, and daily activities to maintain and repair the body’s organs and immune system. Fasting sharpens your body’s ability to heal itself. Fasting allows your body to heal full time. Repairs that would not have gotten done in years can heal in days.

Where is Salud de Oro?

Salud de Oro is located on the Pacific Ocean in the country of Panama at the 3 star resort of Las Olas. The climate is about 72 degrees each day. There are minimal bugs before sundown. Evening activities are held indoors. The humidity is low and temperatures are moderate due to a gentle breeze. Las Olas is located on the beach with black volcanic sand.

Please click this link to see pictures of beautiful Las Olas, http://www.lasolasresort.com/. Business Center, Room Service, High-speed Internet, Fitness Room, Restaurant, Swimming pool, Handicap Accessible, Concierge, Bar / Lounge, Non-Smoking Rooms, Conference Room(s), Mini Bar, Cable / Satellite TV, Coffee / Tea maker, Hair Dryer, Laundry service

MEDICAL MONITORING

Upon your arrival, you will be examined by a physician. A plan will be set out for you based on your  goals.

In order to monitor your progress and adjust your program and medications, some lab tests are needed.

Needed lab tests are Bun, creatinine, electrolytes and chemistry profile. If you do not have recent lab tests, they will be done when you arrive. This cost is in addition to the basic fee. Blood tests will be done weekly while you fast as part of the monitoring process. Daily vital signs are also done. These are evaluated and the information is used to adjust your program. In the event that your program does not involve fasting, lab tests can be waived on a case-by-case basis.

WHAT SHOULD YOU BRING

All of your vitamins, medications, written questions, a copy of your most recent lab tests done within 4 months. Bring a bathing suit, loose comfortable cotton clothes, a hat with a visor or broad brim, sandals, a sweater in case you elect to do the mountain tour or are sensitive to air conditioning. Attire is casual.

Sun hat & Sun Glasses

Water Bottle

Small Day Pack

Eco-friendly sunscreen

Journal, pad & pens

Meditation cushion & shawl (optional)

Slip-on shoes

Sneakers and socks for use of gym

Bathrobe

Bathing suiit

 

This is the dry season. Rain is rare.

OPTIONAL THINGS TO BRING

Laptop. There is FREE wifi. You can run your business or continue online courses while at Salud de Oro. Bring an ethernet cord to access the internet from your room.  Bring Books to read, puzzles, Mp3 player with earphones and your favorite music, CD player with earphones.

WHAT SHOULD I LEAVE HOME

Cigarettes, alcohol, scented products, make-up; these interfere with the cleansing process. Shampoo and soap are provided by the resort.

WHO SHOULD COME

Salud de Oro is designed for the people who:

Use natural healing and wish to detoxify to maintain their independence and good health

Desires Natural, Safe Weight control (expect an average of 1 to 3 pounds per day depending on your starting weight and compliance) in a monitored setting.

Suffer from a chronic long term condition who are medically stable.

Examples are:  Hypertension, diabetes, arthritis of any kind, obesity, fibromyalgia, headaches, high cholesterol, etc

Uses vitamins to maintain their health and want to enhance their results

Want to experience a healthier lifestyle in a supportive setting

Want to reduce their dependence on medications

WHO SHOULD NOT ATTEND

Salud de Oro is not a hospital. If you are critically ill and require intravenous fluids, Salud de Oro is not appropriate for you. If your doctor has informed you that you are likely to die in the next month, Salud de Oro is not appropriate for you.  Salud de Oro is not a drug detox facility. If you have a drug addiction, Salud de Oro is not for you.

Ideal Day At Salud de Oro

Each day is structured for maximal cleansing and comfort.

6:45 to 8am Rounds vital signs

The day begins with morning rounds. Vital signs are taken in the privacy of your room between the hours of 6:45 am and 8am..

8:00 to 8:30 Qi Gong- THE BEACH

Dr Daniels selected Chi Gong as a form of exercise as it is proven to extend the life expectancy of cancer patients by years, aids the immune system, enhances balance, improves the body’s self healing powers, and builds strength. Chi Gong is simple, enjoyable, requires no equipment and can be done anywhere.

9:00 to 10:00 Breakfast – TERRACE

When you are not fasting, breakfast is served on the terrace.

10 to 11 Health Talk -SMALL MEETING ROOM

11am each day is a health talk on an aspect of healing. Some lectures will be live and others will be a DVD presentation.

11 to Noon Social time and recreation – BAR AREA

Rest, volleyball/ping pong on the beach. The soft, warm sand is perfect for volleyball and other sand sports.

Some days you may prefer to rest and others you may feel like being social. This is also a good time to read a good book that you may have packed, play a board game, plan your home strategy or log on to check email. . .

Noon to 1:00 Lunch – TERRACE

Lunch is from noon to 1:00pm.

1:00 to 2 pm Free Time

2 to 3 Group Meditation – MEETING ROOM for 2 days then POOLSIDE

Meditation is an important part of healing. Salud de Oro employs meditation based on auditory frequencies that allow participants to achieve deep levels of meditation in minutes. Bring your stereo headphones. If you do not bring your own, there will be some available for purchase.

3 to 4 Health talk – MEETING ROOM or POOLSIDE

Lectures on topics that will increase your ability to make and commit to lifestyle changes. Some topics are:

Healing Heart Disease Naturally, Erasing wrinkles and age spots naturally, Winning The Mind Game Behind Weight Control, Sex after 50 and more.

4 to 5 Evening rounds:

These are brief and give each participant another opportunity to bring any concerns to the attention of the Medical team so they can be addressed.

5 to 6:00 Dinner:

Organic, plant-based, whole food dining – Dining Room

8:00 Cleansing Activities

8:30 Recommended Lights Out

FAQs – Frequently Asked Questions

Can I bring my children? 

Yes, it is recommended that you select the option of personal attendant for children under 12.  This way, continual supervision can be provided while you enjoy the program.

Is fasting safe?

Yes, fasting is an ancient healing practice thousands of years old.

How long will I fast?

This varies from person to person. Zero to 21 days depending on your condition. Many people experience vast improvement and reach their health goals with proper feeding and cleansing alone. Salud de Oro is committed to helping you reach your goals in the most comfortable least intrusive manner.

Does fasting hurt?

Beautiful calming ocean view at Salud de Oro

It does not have to. Salud de Oro reduces discomfort by maintaining hydration and periodic cleansing as needed.

Will my computer work?

Yes. The electrical outlets are the same as in the United States. Internet is FREE and available in public areas of the resort.  When you bring an Ethernet cord, you can access internet in your room.

Who should fast?

People who wish to heal naturally, people who want to reduce their dependence on medications, people who want to periodically cleanse their bodies to prevent illness.

Will my cell phone work in Panama?

Probably not. Voip and Skype communication both work in Panama. Calls to the United States are FREE from your room phone.

Who should not fast?

People who are taking medications, people who are severely underweight, people who are severely overweight, people who do not tolerate fasting.

If I cannot fast, can I still benefit from being at Salud de Oro?

YES. People who are not able to fast on water only can get great benefit with juice fasting, green smoothie, organic whole food plant-based diet, and cleansing.

WHY YOU SHOULD RESPOND TODAY.

This is a perfect time to recover from the excesses of one holiday, learn for the next holiday and feel better in the New Year. The other reason is fasting/lifestyle changes have been shown to reduce health expenditures. The savings have been shown to total in the thousands of dollars in the first year alone.

To summarize:

1.      You will feel better sooner

2.      You will experience savings in health related expenses sooner

3.      This is perfectly timed  after the holidays: you can undo the damage done by celebrating and get a strategy for a healthy new year.

THE NEXT STEP :

Email your interest or questions to jdaniels.daniels@gmail.com so you can schedule your 20 minute complimentary session to determine if Salud de Oro is right for you

Dr Jennifer Daniels      

Jdaniels.daniels@gmail.com

Your Place For Self Healing

 

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MRSA – more deadly than AIDS

Everyday Vitality
Vitaitycapsules.com

Newsletter for November 2007

What is MRSA ? MRSA is a collection of letters that stand for Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus. This is a bacterium (Staph) that is resistant to antibiotics. One of the antibiotics that it is resistant to is Methicillin. Hence the name.

MRSA is in the news quite a bit these days. The only wonder is why it has not been discussed sooner. MRSA was responsible for more deaths in 2006 than HIV AIDS. Yet there are no public education/information programs in place. I am writing about MRSA this month so that you can have useful information to protect you and your loved ones from MRSA.

MRSA was first identified in hospitals and attributed to the frequent use of antibiotics. The scientists agreed that over-prescribing of antibiotics by doctors was the cause. In 1992, Doctors were told that their use of antibiotics in the office setting was the cause of the resistant organisms in hospitals. As a practicing physician, I felt this could not be true because doctors do not prescribe Methicillin to patients in the office. Further, most patients seen in the office never end up in the hospital. Finally, most doctors are specialists that do not routinely prescribe antibiotics. There just was not enough people seeing enough doctors who were prescribing methicillin to explain the occurrence of MRSA. At the same time, I was a volunteer speaker for the vegetarian society. I was researching the ill effects of eating meats. In 1993 my research revealed a fact that tied everything together for me. Antibiotics were being fed to chickens, cows and pigs to get them to grow faster. In other words, every person who ate poultry, pork, beef or dairy was getting antibiotics daily. I then became aware of catalogs that sold antibiotics to farmers for use in their live stock. These catalogs did not require a doctor or vetinarian to authorize the antibiotic use.

This widespread use of antibiotics explained the widespread resistance of Staph and how the patients seemed to all have the same type MRSA. If it was caused by doctor over prescribing, then patients with different doctors would have bacteria with different patterns of antibiotic resistance. Since patients mainly have 2 types of resistance patterns, there must be a system in place that exposes all patients to the same antibiotics. Further study revealed that 70% of all antibiotics consumed in the United States is consumed by livestock. In other words, doctors at best, control the use of 30% of antibiotics consumed in this country. This confirmed my suspicion that doctor prescribing alone could not explain the emergence of MRSA. Just about now, all you vegetarians out there are probably thinking that you are safe and your virtuous ways have spared you. Not so fast. It turns out that the factory farms dump the waste of these animals into the waterways. The streams and tap water in our country are filled with antibiotic residues and antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Yes, our worse fears are true, it is in the water. Quarantine measures can be expected to be useless against MRSA. This has been borne out by observation. The hospitals in Syracuse, where I used to practice Medicine, immediately instituted quarantine measures to limit the spread of MRSA. The quarantine wards got larger and larger. This method was not effective. While hand washing is nice, it can backfire. The doctor who is vigorously washing their hands between patients will develop breaks in his skin where bacteria can enter and infect him. Further, this infection is spread by the presence of the antibiotic, not by the transfer of organisms.

To make it very clear: Normal bacteria that are present on the skin convert to MRSA when exposed to antibiotics. Put another way, people who do not have MRSA develop MRSA by being exposed to antibiotics.

Staph occurs commonly on the skin of healthy people and is harmless until and unless it penetrates the skin and gets into the blood. Staph penetrates the skin when the skin is cut as during surgery or the insertion of catheters (tubes) into the body through the skin or through an orafice (a hole in the body that was present at birth ). Antibiotics are given before surgery to prevent staph infections. Unfortunately, this contributes to the creation of resistant superbugs. Resistance is transmitted by a piece of protein called a plasmid. There are some members of every group of bacteria that contain a plasmid that makes them resistant to antibiotics. A bacteria that has a plasmid is resistant and can share copies of its plasmid with another bacteria causing the second bacteria to also become resistant to antibiotics. Kind of like file sharing on the internet. The second bacterium does not need to mutate (change its DNA) or even be exposed to the antibiotic. It just needs to be exposed to another bacterium that has resistance. Thus, resistance can spread quickly. Whenever bacteria are exposed to antibiotics, some are killed and the antibiotic resistant ones quickly share their plasmids to protect other bacteria against the antibiotic. This is the case with Staph. The Methicillin resistant strain, MRSA, can only dominate in the presence of antibiotics.Once a person is exposed to antibiotics, the resistant bacteria become a greater portion of the population of bacteria (staph) that occur on the skin. When a break in the skin or weakness in the immune system occurs, an infection results. The resulting infection cannot be eradicated with antibiotics. If the immune system is weak enough, the person dies: life over.

So, dying of MRSA is a 3 step process. The first step is exposure to the antibiotics so that resistance can develop. The second step is having an injury or break in the skin so that the resistant bacteria can enter the body. The third step is having an immune system that is too weak to fight the infection. If any step is missing, the person who has MRSA is not harmed or has no symptoms.

Most people that have MRSA on their skin have no symptoms because steps 2 or 3 above are absent. About 87% of diagnosed cases survive the disease because the immune system is strong enough to fight it or there is no break in the skin.

Understanding this explains why there is no person to person spread and isolation or quarantine is not effective.

PREVENTING MRSA INFECTION

The first step in preventing MRSA is to avoid exposing yourself to antibiotics. This means not eating livestock that have been fed antibiotics and not drinking water that may have antibiotics in it.

This may seem difficult but it is doable. Since antibiotics have been isolated from tap water, streams, and farm animals, these things are to be avoided.

This may sound negative but there are positive steps to take. Eat only meats from animals that have not been treated with antibiotics. This means fish (except shrimp from China – it is treated with antibiotics), organic meats and organic dairy products. It is important to read the label carefully to be sure it says it has not been treated with antibiotics.

When drinking water, drink only filtered water. Most antibiotics are removed by a simple carbon filter. So, the common Reverse osmosis or distilled waters would be free of antibiotics.

Ok, now that you have minimized your exposure to antibiotics, it is important to addres step 2 in the MRSA infection process; avoid getting breaks in the skin. I leave the details to your imagination. If you do get a break in the skin, wash the area. No, you do not need to use antibacterial soap because the organism is resistant or will become resistant from exposure to antibiotics. The only reason to wash the area is to REMOVE MRSA if it is present.

Step 3 in the process is a weak immune system. The good news here is that the immune system has to be really weak to secumb to MRSA. Strengthening it is easy to do.
Eliminate all sugar
Eliminate all processed foods – eat fruits and
vegetables – raw and cooked
Drink plenty of water.

The water allows the immune system to flush out the MRSA and remove it from the body.

Hand washing would not be expected to curtail the spread of MRSA but do it any way. It is good manners.

FYI the CDC has a NNIS (National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System) division that keeps statistics on nosocomial infection rates. This means the type and number of hospital acquired infections. MRSA is in this category. A search for the 2007 report referred me to a 2006 report which referred me to a 2004 report on their website. The latest year for which infection numbers are published is 1998. That’s right. With a 3 to 9 year lag in reporting, it is imperative that the little guy have a home defense plan. Later this week, I will tell you about herbal measures you can take to protect yourself.

Dr Jennifer Daniels, MD/MBA
Vitalitycapsules.com
DISCLAIMER: INFORMATION IN THIS BLOG REPRESENTS INFORMATION BASED ON THE EXPRIENCE, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH DONE BY DR DANIELS. IT IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. NOTHING HERE IS MEANT TO CURE, DIAGNOSE OR TREAT ANY CONDITION

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