The World’s FINEST & All Natural Nutritional Supplement is the Soul™ by Natural Visions™.
This supplement contains nutrients from Mother Nature your body needs for a lifetime of optimal health & wellness. It’s the most complete, proprietary whole food nutritional supplement packed with high concentrations of every vitamin, mineral, probiotic, micronutrient, and omega fatty acid!
Just one tablespoon of Soul™ is equivalent to the daily recommended 10 full servings (which equals the RDA or Recommended Daily Intake) of the most essential and powerful fruits and vegetables!
Soul™ contains the following key ingredients:
Grasses & grains such as kamut, wheat, barley, oat, alfalfa, lemon, barley, malt, soy, sprout, garbonzo, brown rice, and flax seed.
The health benefits of these grasses and grains are extensive. They are abundant in vitamins, minerals, enzymes, protein, dietary fiber, and chlorophyll. For example, barley grass has 7 times more vitamin C than a medium orange, and 11 times more calcium and 30 times more vitamin B1 than 8 ounces of milk.
Grasses and grains also contain plenty of protein and essential amino-acids, crucial for proper digestion and assimilation of foods, a healthy immune-system, cell renewal, production of hormones, building of muscles, blood and organs.
Most grasses and grains have highly detoxifying properties – cleansing the colon and organs – but also remove heavy metals from the body. They assist in digestion, metabolism and healthy bowel movement due to their digestive enzymes and dietary fiber content. A very useful example is lemon grass, also known as citronella (common scent in candles, perfumes and soaps). Lemon grass detoxifies the liver, pancreas, kidney, bladder and digestive tract. It inhibits uric acid (and therefore helps with Gout) production, lowers cholesterol and fatty acids, alleviates indigestion and gastroenteritis, lowers blood pressure, and tones tissue and muscles.
Grasses and grains also contain great amounts of chlorophyll known to heal tissues, fight infection, purify the liver, improve blood sugar levels, and flush out harmful toxins from eating processed and chemically grown foods, breathing polluted air and drinking impure water. Chlorophyll is also known to be a potent antiseptic and antibacterial. The high magnesium content in chlorophyll builds enzymes that restore the sex hormones.
Furthermore, these grasses and grains are very potent antioxidants since many contain plenty of beta-carotene, which scientists believe can prevent cancer.
Algae & seaweed, including kombu, chlorella, spirulina, dulse, nori, kelp, and dunaliella.
Seaweeds are marine algae, which are saltwater-dwelling, very simple organisms that fall into a rather outdated category of ‘plants’. Most of these algae are green (chorella and dunaliella), brown (such as kelps and wracks) or red (nori and dulse), and used in many maritime regions for industrial applications and as a fertilizer. Seaweed extracts appear in the oddest places and are found in yoghurts, chocolate milk, health drinks, and even some high-quality beers.
The major direct use of these plants as food is in Japan, China and Korea. In Japan alone, the total annual production value of nori (Japanese red seaweed) exceeds 2 billion USD, one of the most valuable crops produced by aquaculture in the world.
Seaweeds are the richest natural source of minerals, trace minerals and rare earth elements. Seaweeds have been proven to be helpful in the treatment of tuberculosis, arthritis, colds and influenza, and worm infestations. The electromagnetic action of seaweeds releases excess body fluids from congested cells and dissolves fatty wastes through the skin, replacing them – particularly – with potassium and iodine since these minerals are depleted. Seaweeds therefore have been acknowledged as effective detoxifiers. Important enough to mention also is the vitamin K content in seaweeds. This fat-soluble vitamin aids in adrenal regulation and helps maintain hormone balance.
Kelps also contain natural iodine, known to boost thyroid activity, allowing food fuels to be used before they can turn into fatty deposits. But take note that excess consumption of iodine (more than 4 ounces/day) can cause iodine-induced goiter.
Some of these sea plants produce an effective vermifugal agent (kainic acid) and have been patented as anti-viral agents (effective in the treatment of herpes simplex for example); and some have tumor fighting and cancer prevention properties.
Recent studies found that a substance called fucoidan, a complex polysaccharide found in kelps and in other seaweeds, cause cancer cells to self-destruct. The DNA within each of the cancer cells is broken down by digestive enzymes contained in the cells themselves (a process called apoptosis). Kombu and wakame are particularly rich sources of fucoidan. It is therefore interesting to note that Okinawa has the lowest cancer mortality rate in Japan where the people eat their kombu mostly uncooked; and that – in general – breast cancer rates are lower in Japan than in western countries.
Fruits & vegetables such as red beet, spinach, kale, aloe, moringa oleifera, blueberry, acai berry, mangosteen, noni, apple, and papaya.
I don’t have to expand much on the benefits of fruits and vegetables…you already heard more than a 100 times about their excellent dietary source of fiber, vegetable proteins and protective micronutrients!
What I do like to point out is the following:
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), non-communicable diseases (NCD’s), especially cardiovascular diseases, cancer, obesity and type 2 – diabetes currently kill more people every year than any other cause of death. Four factors in the epidemiology of these diseases – poor diet, physical inactivity, tobacco and alcohol use – are of overwhelming importance to public health.
It’s obvious that I’m not writing this book for smokers or alcoholics. They need to stop smoking and drinking FIRST, and then implement the action plan in this book. But to continue, the WHO reported that low fruit and vegetable intake is estimated to cause about 31% of ischemic heart disease and 11% of strokes worldwide. Overall it’s estimated that up to 2.7 million lives could be saved each year if fruit and vegetable consumption was sufficiently increased.
With regard to health benefits, it’s better to consider fruit and vegetables as a broad food group rather than splitting them into individual fruits and vegetables. This is more useful because it’s not known which components in fruits and vegetables are beneficial. So, there is certainly a need to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables, but it’s also important to increase variety to ensure the best possible health benefits. Also, these fruits and vegetables need to be organically grown and consumed fresh!
I’d like to remind you that a well overlooked benefit of the regular consumption of grasses, grains, seaweed, fruits and vegetables is that they are highly alkalizing, explaining many of the multiple health benefits they have for the human body.
A frequently asked question I would like to cover in this chapter is the energy density of fruit and vegetables. Many people worry about the sugar load in many of these fruits and vegetables. What I will share with you is that you are right: many fruits and vegetables are high in sugars (both simple and complex sugars) and do not necessarily decrease the energy density of the diet. There is a need to consider how people are preparing and eating them.
Fruit and vegetables need to replace other high energy foods in the diet to effectively decrease its energy density. It’s not the purpose of this book to expand on the Glycemic Index (GI), but if you wish to learn the FACTS on GI, read my book ‘Sensible Weight Loss’.
Herbs, including stevia, LoHan, Rishi mushroom and Mitake mushroom.
A herb is a plant or plant extract, including leaves, bark, berries, roots, gums, seeds, stems, and flowers bestowed with nourishing and healing elements from Mother Nature. Herbs are NOT medicine, but food from nature that heals and nurtures the human body. Various herbs have similar or various properties, and their applications are effectively used in herbal and natural medicine. As part of the Soul™ formula, some herbs with less specific, more general health benefits have been added.
Stevia (also known as sweetleaf or sugarleaf) is part of the sunflower family, native to South and Central America. Its extracts contain up to 300 times the sweetness of sugar. As a sweetener and sugar substitute, stevia has shown benefits in treating obesity and high blood pressure. Stevia also has minor effects on blood glucose and glucose tolerance, and is therefore attractive as a natural sweetener to diabetics and others on carbohydrate-controlled diets.
And of course, several companies have successfully developed an economical and industrial production process for isolating Rebaudioside A (Reb-A), a stevia extract. The FDA has not actually permitted the stevia plant itself to be used as a food additive, but only the Reb-A. But I’m glad WE all know better! The Reb-A extract is NOT natural and far less potent than the plant.
LoHan (short for Luo Han Guo), the ‘magic fruit’ or also called ‘longevity fruit’ in China is a moist, cooling, calming and relaxing herb that combats stress, reduces tension and balances body and mind. It has been used for thousands of years to moisten the lungs and skin, treat sore throats and coughs, regulate the digestive tract and purify the blood. It’s also effective in relieving constipation and diarrhea (does that make sense? Of course, it BALANCES the body: if there’s too much, it reduces – if there’s not enough, it promotes), colitis, diabetes and hypoglycemia. LoHan is a sweet fruit and therefore also used as a sugar substitute or non-caloric sweetener. Recent investigation includes the antioxidant activity of the ‘mogrosides’ (another bioactive compound of LoHan) and their potential use as a cancer preventative.
Many species of medicinal mushrooms have been researched for thousands of years. Rishi, reishi or lingzhi, also known as the ‘mushroom of immortality” has a variety of therapeutic benefits, including antioxidant activity, hypoglycemic, liver-protecting, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-fibrotic, anti-viral, anti-cancer, ACE-inhibitor and immune-regulatory properties. Rishi also inhibits synthesis of cholesterol, reduces blood cholesterol, reduces urinary tract infection symptoms, inhibits blood platelets creation, and reduces radiation induced damage. Mitake or Maitake is known to have cancer prevention properties through its ability to activate various effector cells, such as macrophages, natural killer cells, T-cells, interleukin-1 and superoxide anions. Don’t worry about the above terminology, just remember that all of these cells have anti-cancer activity. This year, a phase I/II human trial showed Mitake stimulates the immune system of breast cancer patients.
Soul™ also contains an enzyme blend with:
1) Protease: enzyme necessary to break down and digest protein.
2) Amylase: enzyme that breaks starch down into sugar.
3) Cellulase: enzyme that breaks down cellulose, a polysaccharide and structural component of the primary cell wall of green plants and algae.
4) Lipase: enzyme that break downs and processes fats, oils and triglycerides.
and a probiotic blend including:
lactobacillus acidophilus, bulgaricus, rhamnosus, casel, plantarum, brevis, caucasicus and bifido-bacterium bifidum.
We already established earlier in this book the importance of probiotics and digestive enzymes in promoting digestion and absorption.
As you can see, Soul™ has all Mother Nature has to offer. When we add this supplement to our daily nutrition, we certainly provide our body with the ESSENTIAL nutrients it needs to REBUILD & RENEW itself, and to obtain and maintain optimal balance.
What makes Soul™ superior to other ‘Greens’ on the market?
First, it is COMPLETE and contains much more effective and proven, all natural, organic ingredients than most other ‘Greens’. It contains not only organic fruits and vegetables, but also grasses, grains, seaweed, algae, and herbs.
The formula contains over 75 minerals! How is that possible you may ask? I thought our soil was depleted of minerals and – if we’re lucky – we may find only about 18 minerals in our soil today?
True! Gary Price Todd, M.D. stated that “the human body requires at least 60 minerals to sustain good health, yet less than a third of that requirement is available in our food or the average mineral supplement on the market today.” Many scientists believe that a lack of minerals is the major cause of poor health, sickness and disease. In fact, Dr. Linus Pauling, a 2-time Nobel Laureate said “one could trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a lack of minerals.”
The solution is Soul™. Soul™ contains Senonian Vegetate. Senonian vegetate is a deposit of prehistoric plants accumulated during the Senonian period about 70 to 80 million years ago. At that time, more than 75 minerals were still available in the soil. The Senonion vegetate is mined from a mine in Utah (USA). After the vegetate is mined, it is placed in large food grade tanks and covered with pure water. It sits for several days during which time the minerals leach out of the vegetate and become part of the liquid solution. This solution is then filtered down and sprayed dry to remove the water. What remains is an extremely fine powder that contains over 75 pure, all natural, plant derived minerals that can be absorbed by our body! Is that AWESOME, or what?
Yours in Optimal Health,
Dr. Mike.
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