The first new episode of this season on Dr. Oz featured our old buddy, Dr. Andrew Weil who shared many of his usual ideas about Alternative Health and Wellness.

It was fairly obvious to give credit to Olive Oil as a healthy oil, yet Andrew and Oz get a thumbs-up for mentioning toasted sesame oil which we have used for fifty years. Coconut oil is great for the skin, but we like to eat fresh coconut and drink fresh coconut milk and eat coconut milk yogurt for our internal health benefits from coconut. The island populations that are healthy are known to eat coconut, pineapple, papaya, guava, and other tropical fruits on a regular basis. The enzymes and nutrients in these foods really do contribute to Wellness and Longevity. But when you prepare your whole foods, use a variety of healthy oils, including nut and seed oils along with ORGANIC Olive Oil!

The restaurant that has developed recipes using Andrew’s approach shared his infamous Green Monster Drink which got mixed reviews in taste and texture. The woman who stood between our two doctors getting their ‘green’ groove on didn’t appear to like either the Siberian Ginseng (Eleuthero) Tea nor the Green Monster Smoothie. She was most likely expecting or at least hoping for something sweet. The apple and carrot juice in the Green Monster helps to make the blend more palatable, but not nearly enough for the beginner’s palate.

If you want to get off to a good start with this Tea or the Green Drink with a smile; then add either honey or stevia or blue agave syrup to suit your taste until you can reduce the sweetness to nothing. Although, the honey will bio-energetically facilitate the movement of the Yin Chi of the Ginseng into the Spleen Meridian to build the blood (xue) and other body fluids. You can also add lemon juice to the Tea to make it seem a little more familiar to your typical expectations of tea tastes.

The best way to get your Siberian Ginseng is to take Vital 18 daily. It’s already sweet and combined with spirulina which packs more minerals and other nutrients into the best ‘bang for your buck’! You can make it into a great chocolate shake or get the berry to turn it into a fruit smoothie. Once you try Vital 18, there will be no better way to get your Siberian Ginseng! Ask us how to order six bottles of Vital 18 at a special price for our visitors!

That Green Monster Smoothie features some great ingredients and if you can’t find kale in your grocery store; then use a different dark leafy green, parsley, or spirulina to get those all-important phyto-nutrients for well-being to nourish the blood.

Dr. Oz and Andrew Weil’s Green Monster Drink recipe

I chose not to eat at Andrew’s restaurant in Phoenix when I lived in Scottsdale, because they didn’t bother to use all organic produce and whole foods. This comprised the quality of their food in my opinion, but at least they are making an effort to change and improve typical restaurant fare.

I was glad to see that the two doctors agreed that the spices and herbs deserved a regular spot in the food you eat. Ginger Root, garlic, cinnamon, and turmeric sat on the demo table with quinoa and other whole foods. The weird demo was the nutritional supplements that were shown in a giant martini glass which gave the wrong impression. I was relieved to finally hear Dr. Oz endorse Co-enzyme Q 10, but the explanation from both Andrew and Oz was insufficient to give you the benefits of this supplement. Andrew made it sound like you had to be old, decrepit, and losing all your faculties to obtain value from its use. I think that I will make this information part of one of my first Newsletters when you join the Mailing List which will be ready soon.

I must tell you this: Oz and Andrew didn’t give you the best idea about how much vitamin C to take regularly. Your body generally can absorb and utilize about 60 mg. an hour and excretes the rest. There are conditions in the human body where the body will be able to use more than this small amount, but you would need to be tested with the EAV equipment to ascertain the proper amount for you as an individual at any given time. It is important for a person to get small increments of vitamin C all day long. Some supplementation offers a time-release solution to this requirement, but it is a good idea to eat fresh organic fruit alone several times in the morning and during the day. You can enjoy a chewable vitamin C wafer or drink an effervescent drink which includes ascorbic acid among its ingredients. The Brain Toniq that we continue to tell you about will deliver this and more when you drink it a couple of times a day. An organic lemonade will supply you with sufficient quantities of vitamin C as long as it is fresh from real lemons… LOL

The other thing that I cannot ignore after watching this episode of Dr. Oz which referred to Dr. Andrew Weil as the ‘godfather’ of alternative medicine is this: Andrew is too new on the scene to deserve the title of ‘godfather’. We would suggest that Dr. Bernard Jensen is much more qualified and deserving of this title than Andrew. Think about it…

I kept waiting for the substance of the discussion about Alternative Medicine. It is far more than a handful of supplements, four spices and herbs, a couple of whole foods and Ginseng Tea. There was a brief mention of Tai Chi and Yoga, but that was it. This topic is much more comprehensive and extensive than the two doctors seem to grasp when sharing their expertise with the audience. They only scratched the surface…

The portion of the discussion that I DO wish to emphasize is the attention given to inflammation. That was of value for people to know more about as one of the primary reasons for degenerative disease and cancer that far too many people have to attend to when they could have learned to live a healthy Lifestyle from childhood and dodged that bullet over the course of their lives. The other ‘honorable mention’ of today’s show goes to: Cordyceps and the significance of Adaptogens for genuine Wellness and Longevity.

Just do a Search on this website for Cordyceps as an ingredient in many of these traditional Chinese Herbal Formulations and then for Siberian Ginseng or Eleuthero for either of these Adaptogens that are used in formulas for well-being.

This leads us to our final point: We urge you to purge your kitchen pantry of everything that is NOT a whole food or a healthy oil and find an inner surge of inspiration to incorporate these Wellness ideas into your daily Lifestyle, so you can optimize your potential for enjoying health and long Life.

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