Mark Sisson over at Mark’s Daily Apple took my interest with this especially as I’m about to have my routine tests myself.

“What I’d really like to see is a little high-def moving graphical representation of your arterial health. Like, instead of getting a single snapshot of the state of your blood lipids, you’d go into the doctor’s office and strap on a non-invasive device (which, if required for its operation, applies the perfect dose of ionizing radiation to provoke a hormetic response, rather than a pathogenic one) that monitors your blood lipid activity. You’d wear it for maybe a week, during which time it would monitor your blood, download the data, and give you a play-by-play summary of what exactly happened in your body. It would even convert it into visual form, so you could watch a nice Pixar-quality video at the end showing cartoon LDL particles with frowny  faces oxidizing (or not), interacting with receptors (or not), happy-faced ones delivering cholesterol to be turned into sex hormones, increasing because thyroid health is compromised and LDL receptors down-regulate, decreasing because they’re making more deliveries to cells (good), decreasing because you had a stressful four days of no sleep and low-nutrient junk food and the resulting systemic inflammation was oxidizing them and they ended up as atherosclerotic plaque and no longer in your bloodstream to be measured. Such a device would be great and truly useful.”

Here’s the complete Post on interpreting lab results: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-interpret-advanced-cholesterol-test-results/#ixzz1htYD9i37

Not happy. Sitting on my bum for the last week and most likely 3 months to go. My leg is broken right at the base of the tibia and I won’t know if it needs a screw in it for another week when I go to see the bone specialists. Drinking gallons of alkaline water and Cassie is making me Bone-Knit (comfrey) smoothies 3 times a day so there’s really nothing more to do except sit here and bash out blog articles.

And of course it’s a beautiful day at the beach….

This article in the NY Times on the side effects of Tamoxifen, used to protect women from breast cancer raises a very interesting point for me. Although the article weighs up the side effects that the drug has with the perceived and proposed protective benefit, it seems to me that the same discussion could be fruitful when looking at our own lives.

In terms of health protection, let’s get down and dirty. The plain truth is that the vast majority of us just don’t spend money on a FUTURE health problem. ‘Lip service’ is the best term I can give to encompass our general attitudes. If we are flush with cash, we pay a company to pick up the pieces when we go off the rails, but that’s the extent of it. We don’t really have an ongoing planned preventative strategy. In one sense, paying into a fund gives us the go-ahead to forget about our lack of a daily health preventative plan.

I was given a taste of this last week. I was asked to present our water alkalizers to a very big media company that sells interesting products to the public. Even though I talked about alkalizing, about the ongoing acidification of the body, the increased immunity and all of the other benefits alkaline ionized water may have to an individual, my contact sat there, stonyfaced.

Eventually he spoke. “How much is the filter when it needs replacing?” I told him. “Too much. Most water filters are much less.”

It was only when we concluded the meeting that I got what was happening. I suggested he take our sample unit, drink the water for a month and see the effect it had on his own health.

“I wouldn’t do that. I smoke, I drink, and I don’t do ‘health’ things. Maybe my wife might be interested.”

Suddenly it dawned on me that this man just couldn’t even come close to a personal health evaluation. His lifestyle was so important to him that he had dismissed all future as unimportant. Now, as we all know, many of us do the same. And all of us feel the remorse and the anger when our body finally gives out under the strain of the accumulated neglect.

But really, how could I judge him? That extra glass of wine, that extra handful of nuts, that lazy day with no exercise.. it’s all one and the same; a conscious or unconscious decision to ignore the future.

Discussing it with Cassie later, we wondered if we were barking up the wrong tree trying to assist people to create a prevtative health culture in their life. Maybe, Cassie suggested, we should tell people that they can eat more, drink more, couch-surf more… if they just alkalise. After we got up off the floor from laughing, we agreed that was definitely NOT the way to get our message across.

It was about then that I found the article on Tamoxifen, entitled:

“When Lowering the Odds of Cancer Isn’t Enough”

So.. let’s play a game. Let’s pretend that I arrive at your front door. I offer you a pill that you take just once and I guarantee that you’ll never get cancer. Even though you don’t know me, you are excited. You call your partner away from the TV where he is immersed in a beer and a game of football. I wait patiently at the door. You now have a grumpy husband detaching himself from the couch and you are wondering what you are going to say to him. Suddenly you realise you haven’t asked the price. “Quick,” you say to me. “How much is the pill?”
“Cheap.” I say. “”Twenty thousand dollars.”

I’m not going to continue the story. I’d love you to fill it the gaps with a few replies below.

Of course, you are going to want proof of the pill’s efficacy. And I have a 10,000 subject double-blind randomised study in my hand. The pill DOES work.

So you tell me how you convince your partner. And while you are at it, maybe you could take a look at what you put in the way of your own preventative health strategy.

And while we are on the subject, here’s one amazing story of what one brother did for another, and what effect his computer program has had one thousands of people.

Reports are coming in faster and faster for the AlkaPod portable water ionizer.
Received from Alan and Di Creasey:

“Alan was a market at the weekend when a customer approached to thank him for recommending the Alkapod. She had been using another alkalizing product for some time but she was struggling with the cost. We had suggested that the Alkapod was much cheaper. After 2 months with the Alkapod she has managed to stop using HRT which she had been on for 15 years. The ___ _____s have gone. 
Regards Di:” 

and…

“Just a quick update. I’ve not felt this good for 15 years! My _____ has almost completely gone and the itching has all but stopped. I can’t begin to tell you how the quality of my life has improved! At the same time as the Alkapod arrived, I had started a regimen of various vitamin/dietary supplements. I’ve stopped them. Over that period, the only constant was my use of the Alkapod – indeed I’ve found that if I didn’t take the 2 litres/day I could notice a difference!! I drink nothing but alkalised water, if I have tea (usually green) or coffee (not many) it’s made on alkalised water. We prepare the water by using filtered water (thru a Brita filter) and then into the Alkapod for at least 10 mins – by the microwave timer! My wife nor I can believe the difference there is of being on alkalised water for only 2 months! I’ve diarised a to-do to give you a follow up in a months time Have a great day_____________ Kind regards Jules B.” 

and… one sent to Karen, one of our Alkalizing specialist team…

“Hi Karen,
It has been really lovely talking to you on the phone you are so helpful! 
I just love my Alkapod and I am starting to feel so much more energetic, something I haven’t felt for a long time with all the illness I have had…..and its only been a few weeks so that’s truly awesome…..doing an alkaline diet to and that is really great…real health changes starting to happen and I am having so much fun doing all this and its all so positive!. 

I will be getting a super draw down in July so I will definitely be buying a Delphi that’s for sure… Talk to you soon and once again thank you for all you help with my inquiries. 

Wendy”

Note: as usual, we do not publish specific therapeutic claims. hence the blankety blank space.