Conquer Infection Without a Prescription
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Issue #2094
- WEALTHY: Avoid this common mega-mistake (Michael Masterson)
- HEALTHY: Mother Nature’s immune-boosting powerhouse (Shane Ellison)
- WISE: Buddha on staying healthy
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
- The "disease" that’s stealing precious time from your family (Bob Cox)
- What can 100 words do for you? (Suzanne Richardson)
- It’s Fun to Know… about controlling electronics with your mind
- Add "chicanery" to your vocabulary
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Love Is Blind – but Don’t Turn a Blind Eye to Your Business
Your business is growing at a good rate. Every year, you boost it forward by creating one or several new product lines or divisions. One of these becomes a favorite of yours. You like it so much, you want it to be massively successful.
There are little bits of evidence that your pet project is not as good as you want to believe, but you ignore them. When someone criticizes it, you feel defensive. If you get marketing or financial reports that look bad, you insist that they are flawed and ask to have them refigured. If the reports come back looking good, you are happy.
In HL’s case, there were warning signs that his new division wasn’t working…
- There wasn’t a clearly established market for its products.
- The small market that existed didn’t seem to be growing.
- There wasn’t a single strong frontrunner doing what he wanted to do.
Any one of these conditions should have called for a serious look at the numbers. But HL didn’t want to look. He wanted to believe. For four years running, he accepted the superficial and seriously flawed reports of the division’s manager – a guy whose vested interest was in making these reports look as good as possible.
The reports looked good, but there was no money in the bank. And every year, the new venture needed to borrow money. "How could I have been so foolish?" HL eventually had to ask himself.
There is only one way to make sure something like this never happens to you: Devote some time each month (or year) to critically investigating the numbers. Don’t accept glib answers or superficial explanations. If something doesn’t make perfect sense to you, keep asking questions till you get a satisfactory answer.
A second thing you can do: Keep tabs on the cash. Know how much cash you have on a daily basis – and this applies even if your business is a large one.
Third, make sure you have an accurate idea of accounts payable and other balance-sheet items that might not appear on your profit statements.
And, finally, keep plugged into the sales and marketing activity of the business. When this is profitable, everything else can be fixed. But when it starts to fall apart, your business is in danger – no matter what the reports say.
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"To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."
Buddha
Conquer Infection Without a Prescription
One of my first lessons as a drug chemist was that bacterial and viral infections could be conquered without a prescription drug.
Mother Nature has a secret and extremely powerful antibiotic and immune booster. This substance is so powerful, Big Pharma has been trying to make a synthetic version of it in their top-secret labs for almost 15 years.
Most prescription antibiotics and antivirals are nothing more than counterfeits of what Mother Nature has to offer. Consider the following expert testimony from Dr. Edwin L. Cooper, professor at the University of California: "Several valuable drugs have been isolated from plant and animal sources; these include aspirin, morphine, reserpine (the first antipsychotic), almost all antibiotics, digitalis, and anti-cancer agents such as vincristine, vinblastine, and Taxol."
Big Pharma doesn’t like promoting this fact, because they know that drug sales would be curbed by people turning to natural medicine. Instead, they promote fear in order to sell their counterfeits.
Do you remember how many people swallowed Tamiflu in fear of a global pandemic of the notorious bird flu? Enough to earn its maker Roche a record $2 billion, at least! I don’t know if Tamiflu users feared that the bird flu would turn into the human flu or feared that they would turn into birds. One is about as likely to happen as the other.
And consider how vaccines are sold. Government-backed vaccination programs and the resulting fear that a lack of vaccine will put the population at risk have created further unease – sometimes mass hysteria.
In reality, the threat of a naturally occurring, global pandemic of any type is minuscule. But whether you’re facing a potential worldwide illness or a common cold, you don’t need to turn to the drugstore to find relief. The wonder-herb known as "andrographis" is available at your local health food store.
Andrographis comes from India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. This herb supercharges your immune system and helps flush out viral and bacterial infections. Here is just a sampling of what andrographis can do…
Reduces Severity and Duration of Cold and Flu
Historically, this herb has been used primarily as a treatment for cold and flu symptoms. Recent double-blind human trials have proven that the use of andrographis reduces not only the severity but also the duration of those symptoms. Most people find that it relieves throat soreness, but researchers also noted that it improved other symptoms, including temperature, headache, muscle aches, cough, nasal symptoms, general malaise, and eye symptoms.
Helps Overcome Gum Disease
A new application for andrographis is as a medication for periodontal disease and gingivitis, a condition that’s common in individuals over 60 years old. Research has proven that andrographis is effective in inhibiting and killing the bacteria primarily responsible for periodontal disease, which prevents the subsequent loss of teeth.
Beats Many Infections
Andrographis has been a staple in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years to treat snakebites, malaria, and dysentery. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is considered to be especially effective in clearing heat from the body and blood, and is commonly used to treat heart conditions, along with infection in the lungs, urinary tract, and throat. Within the halls of Big Pharma, modern research has proven andrographis to be beneficial at removing blood clots, stopping the spread of multiple types of cancer, and increasing the amount of immune-enhancing white blood cells that the immune system produces.
Wow! Imagine if a prescription drug could do all that!
Making Andrographis Work for You
Big Pharma has failed miserably at designing a synthetic counterfeit of andrographis. A good thing – because in their natural state, medicinal wonder-herbs are always superior. Use them and say no to prescription drugs.
To make andrograhis work for you, you need to take the right dose as soon as you start to see cold symptoms: one gram for every 25 pounds of body weight, split into three daily doses. For instance, if you weigh 150 pounds, you would take six grams daily – two grams three times each day.
You’ll find that most health food stores sell andrographis as a whole herb or as a four- to six-percent standardized extract of andrographolide, one of its active ingredients,. All of these product variations are suitable. However, stay away from anything greater than a six-percent extract, which may be missing other naturally occurring ingredients that are vital for the herb’s efficacy.
[Ed. Note: Shane "The People's Chemist" Ellison has an MS in organic chemistry and firsthand experience in drug design and synthesis. He is an internationally recognized authority on therapeutic nutrition. Get his "Foundational Health Education" to beat obesity, heart disease, and even Type II diabetes by clicking here.]
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Why You Should Schedule a Vacation Right Away
In ETR #2088, I told you how American workers give up a total of 1.6 million years of vacation time each year. Clearly, we’re a country plagued by "vacationorexia."
Admittedly, I’ve been a victim of "vacationorexia." I’ve turned down all-expense-paid trips to Maui and London (awarded to me by my company) in favor of working. But eventually I realized what I was missing: quality time with my family and a period of mind-and-body restoration for myself.
So if you’re "vacationorexic," as so many people are, it’s time to make a change. Start by setting aside a specific block of time each week for fun and family. And treat this as you would treat any critical appointment. Don’t "steal" from that time to finish an extra project or work an extra hour or two.
Here are some other techniques you can use to make sure you’re setting aside plenty of time for yourself, your family, and your friends:
- Include your family when planning a vacation, a night out, or a long weekend.
- When you take a break, set your e-mail to an automatic "out of office" reply. This way, your clients, associates, and partners will know that you’re unavailable and when they can reach you again.
- On your land line, record a message indicating when you will be gone and when you will return (specific days and dates).
- Turn your cellphone off. Or, at the very least, put it on "vibrate" so you can enjoy your time off without interruption.
- When you begin thinking about work, stop.
- Before leaving the office, advise your staff, associates, clients, etc. "If the building is burning – you can call. Otherwise, I’ll speak with you upon my return."
- Count your blessings, and tell your loved ones that they are important to your success and that you appreciate their support.
Once you put these techniques into action, you’ll have more balance in your life and a better perspective in terms of work, fun, and family. Your family and friends will notice the difference.
[Ed. Note: Bob Cox is co-founder of the first TV shopping network and the author of The Billionaire Way.
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Have a "Superior Command" of the English Language
You already know that having a bigger vocabulary corresponds with achieving a higher position in your job and a bigger paycheck. Not only that, but a powerful understanding of the English language can help you become a more persuasive writer and speaker, make people stop to listen when you speak, and make you feel more confident.
As Michael Masterson says, "People judge you on how well you speak – and being able to use precisely the right word at the right time gives you an enormous advantage when it comes to making a good impression."
How big is your vocabulary? Out of 700,000+ possible words in a working vocabulary, according to a study by Andrew Biemiller of the University of Toronto, the average American is familiar with only about 25,000 to 60,000 words.
Where and how can you start expanding your vocabulary? Steven Kleinedler, senior editor of The American Heritage Dictionaries, and his fellow editors have made the task a little easier by compiling a list of 100 words that every high school graduate should know.
The list includes lots of words that you’re already familiar with if you’ve been reading ETR’s daily Word to the Wise feature – like "abstemious,""churlish,""enervate,""jejune,""laissez faire,""quotidian,""supercilious," and "unctuous." You can find the complete 100-word list at HoughtonMifflinBooks.com.
"If you are able to use these words correctly," says Kleinedler, "you are likely to have a superior command of the language."
But why stop at adding a mere 100 words to your lexicon? Make sure you check Word to the Wise each day to improve your vocabulary one day at a time. And if you enjoy listening to and practicing words in your car or while on the treadmill, you might consider buying our Words to the Wise CD Library.
It’s Fun to Know: Controlling Electronics With Your Mind
Japanese researchers are working on a new technology that could eventually translate changes in brain blood flow (which are the result of mental activity) into signals that would control electronic devices such as electric wheelchairs, artificial limbs, keyboards, TV remote controls, and even cars.
So far, test subject have been able to move a toy train by doing simple calculations in their head while using the "brain machine interface," a cap connected by fiber optics to a computer that analyzes the blood flow. The researchers are now trying to fine-tune their device to make more complex tasks possible.
(Source: Associated Press)
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Word to the Wise: Chicanery
"Chicanery" (shih-KAY-nuh-ree) – from the French for "to quibble" – is the use of trickery or subterfuge to deceive.
Example (as used by Kenneth R. Johnston in The Hidden Wordsworth): "Wordsworth’s paternal grandfather, Richard, had first come to Westmorland from South Yorkshire in 1700, to recoup his fortunes with the then baron Lonsdale, having been done out of his fortune by his own guardian’s chicanery."
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Michael Masterson
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