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By BIOMETICSLADY

Aside from supplimenting your body with the various absorbable vitamins and minerals we all need and most seem to lack without even knowing…. What can we do to combate this newest strain of flu?
Well, let’s look at what the Swine Flu is. Is it bacterial? No. If it were, we could wipe it out with the traditional meds, right? Is it viral? Yes. And since virus’s don’t repond to antibiotics, we are up a creek, right?
Not necessarily. For about 6 years, I’ve used something called Collodial Silver on occasion. I even got the crazy idea of using it on a couple puppies, when they came in with Giardia. The pups were in rough shape, and anything from the vet didn’t seem to help them. So….I gave each a teaspoon of CS every morning, and hooked a water bottle onto their cage with ten drops of 35% food grade H2O2 added to the water, so that’s what they had to drink. Amazingly, they started to get better with a couple days. Anyone that knows about dogs and Giardia, knows it’s a tough thing to eridicate once it takes hold.
That’s when I started to notice how these two seeming simple, natural things were much more effective than what I had given them credit for.
I started doing reasearch, and was flatly amazed at what I found. First the Collodial Silver. Wow, it was known to be effective against 650 pathogens, that’s at least 600 more than penecillin! The REALLY amazing thing I found, was it could be made at home, cheaply! I’ve read article upon article on it effectiveness. I’ve read articles (obvious traditional med articles, that try to debunk it. I even read an article about the clinical trials the FDA did on this, and how they KNOW that it is effective, but they can’t patent it. So many many people will never know about it, because the all knowing FDA will never promote something they can’t make money on.
On the food grade 35% Hydrogen Peroxide. I swear by it. It’s wonderful stuff. I take it orally (drops in any drink, NEVER drink straight), I clean with it, I put it in the dishwasher and laundry after someone has been sick, it even goes in the drinking water for dogs and livestock. It’s a bit hard to get, you can buy in small quantities in the health food store, but the prices are WAY out of line. But that’s the only alternative for most people. Fortunately, my husband is a farmer with a HAZMAT licence, so I get it in the 55 gal. drums.
Will it work? Time will tell. As I write this, my husband is getting over Swine Flu. He won’t use natural products. Have I gotton it? No. Have my children? I think it started, but I nipped it in the bud and slipped CS in their drinks and have a vaporizer going 24 HRs with H2O2 added.

5/14/2009 UPDATE

 

Everyone is fine.  I never got sick, I take my Bio-Immune daily and use the H2O2 in the vaporizers. Ryan started to cough terribly around 2AM.  It was the first night I had not used the vaporizer with H2O2 and a drop of Peppermint esential oil.  I made up a gallon, put it in the vapoirizer in his room, and all was quiet.

by BIOMETICSLADY

I’ve waded through and deciphered a number of scientific mumbo jumbo articles to give the real scoop in normal everyday language to help make this important Coenzyme more understandable.  Heck, I learned quite a lot of stuff I didn’t know either!

CoQ10 is one of those things not classified as a vitamin (1), but it’s a major player in the body.  It’s very very important for energy production in our cells.  What in our body does not require energy?  So since the body only produces it in small amounts, or gets it in small amounts from foods, it’s a given that supplimentation with CoQ10 is a necessity.(2) And since production of CoQ10 peaks around 20, and steadily declines with age, the small effort of taking a supplement, could potentially pay off big.

What is it? In the plainest terms… Coenzymes are the helpers of enzymes.  Enzymes are needed for every function of the body, and in order to work, they need their little helpers, the co-enzymes.  So if there are not enough co-enzymes  (along with a mineral such as Magnesium), our bodies are in trouble.  An analogy would be to a car, without fuel, it doesn’t run.  So without the right fuel for our 100 trillion cells, we don’t work either.  And this little co-enzyme does double duty in our bodies.  It works as an anti oxident too.  We all know what oxidation does to a car… it rusts it.  It’s the same in our bodies.  We don’t literally rust, that would be silly.  But the process and the product are much the same, if not exactly.  Ani-oxidents in the body serve to neutralize the nasty “rust” causing stuff from our food and air and even stress that causes some pretty bad results in our cells.  This is the same process that causes the dreaded aging in our cells. So is CoQ10 the fountain of youth?  No.  But it can sure slow things down.

I have people asking me if this is good for the heart.  In a word and according to scientific research…. Yes.  In everything I’ve found, the correlation of it’s use with improvement over non using groups was significant. (That was my scientific mumbo jumbo, but I’m done now.) If you are looking for a supplement good for the heart, Cell Care by Biometics is a superior method of getting CoQ10.  Why?  Because of the process they use called Micellization.  Micellization means that the droplet size of this nutrient is reduced so small, that this fat-soluable particle becomes water soluable.  Complete water solubility means better absorption, up to 500% better than regular vitamins.   Better absorption means better results! 

CoenzymeQ10 has been found to be very low in people with heart disease, Diabetes, Parkinsons, Cancer & HIV/AIDS.  Some prescription drugs can also lower CoQ10 levels (3)

Scientific research has suggested CoQ10 has uses in:

• High Blood Pressure
• Age related macular degeneration
• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Angina
• Heart Toxicity resulting from chemotherapy
• Asthma
• Breast Cancer
• Cardiomyopathy
• CFS
• Kidney Failure
• Heart Attack, Heart Failure, Heart Protection
• Migrain Prevention
• Many Others

The most amusing evidence I found was for Peridontal Disease!  If you swish the Biometics Products, Cell Care and Bio-Fuel around in your mouth, there are dentists promoting the use of this for not only Gum Disease, but bad breath!

 

 

(1) Coenzyme Q10 by Dr. Micheal B. Schachter M.D, F.A.C.A.M, 1996.

(2) Coenzyme Q10 on http://www.MayoClinic.com 

(3) Alternative Medicine Review 1996 (Sep);   1 (3):   168–175

by BIOMETICSLADY

“But the company website says nothing about Biometics being so effective at treating symptoms of ADHD”.  This is true.  The company makes no medical claims whatsoever as to the results and efficacy of this product.  We must do our own research.  Biometics is not after all, a medical product that the FDA regulates (and therefore makes money from).  Of course they will steer you toward traditional medicine.

These medicines have been tested, they sure have.  Ritalin in the last five years caused at least 5 REPORTED deaths.  Strattera has it’s problems too.  Yes, they have been tested, and proven to be deadly.  How many people have died or even gotten sick from Biometics in the companies 15 year history?  ZERO!!!!

So, now I have that rant over with, how about some information on how Biometics can help you and yours?  That is, after all, the most important thing. 

First, you can go to the Biometics movie that explains exactly WHY Biometics is a superior product.  http://www.3stepsadd.com/liquid-vitamin-video.htm   next you can listen to the 24/7 automated call about nutrition for children, by  dialing 1-888-246-2428.  A menu comes on, choose #8, then choose #2 for the “chidren & Biometics” call.  After all this, email me at biometicslady@yahoo.com and we will discuss exactly the products that you will need, and how to properly use them to acheive the desired results.

Micellization is actually a complicated word for a fairly easy to understand process.  It is simply taking a lage particle and breaking it down, sometimes to thousanths of it’s original size, so the body can easily absorb it.  Think of an hourglass…. if I were to put a pebble in the glass, it wouldn’t flow through that little narrow hole in the middle.  If that pebble were crushed up however, all the particles could flow through and get where they need to be.  The same thing goes on inside our bodies.  We have small pore like openings in our cell walls, called aquaporin.  If a particle is too big, it is not absorbed into this little pore like opening.  If however that particle is broken into thousands of little bits, well, it slips right through.  Voila!  100% absorbsion.  So when you buy a Micellized product, you get everything you are paying for.  It will not end up in the toilet. Gross, huh?  But really, if you take vitamins, notice the color of your urine.  In large part, the bright color is all the vitamins you spent good money for that went straight on through to your bladder.  Nice.  With Biometics, you will notice a change.  But not from vitimins absorbed, but it will be quite light because you are drinking more water.  That’s about it.

Here’s the scientific version of what Micellization is:

 

  

Understanding the Process of Drug or Nutrient Absorption

 

Understanding the Process of Drug or Nutrient Absorption

To understand how the micellization process improves the absorption of fat-soluble compounds,

one has to understand how drugs/nutrients act in order to have desired therapeutical/nutritional

effects.

 

 

 

Understanding the Process of Drug or Nutrient Absorption

 

 

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To produce its characteristic effects, a drug must be present in appropriate concentration at its

site of action. The extent to which a drug reaches its site of action is called bioavailability.

Although it is obviously a function of the amount of drug administered, the concentration at its site

of action also depends on the extent of its absorption, distribution and elimination. In order to

increase the bioavailability of a drug, one can formulate the dose form that will modify its

absorption and distribution process.

 

 

 

 

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The absorption of a drug involves its passage across cell membranes. The basic structure of

biological membranes is a bimolecular leaf arrangement of lipids as shown in Figure 1, in which

the amphoteric lipids and cholesterol are oriented so that the hydrophobic portion of the

molecules interact minimizing their contact with water or other polar groups, and polar head

groups of the lipids are at the interface with the aqueous environment, as shown in Figure 2.

At the junction of membrane surface and body fluid, there is a double layer formation. This double

layer is aqueous in nature. For a drug to cross the membrane and arrive at its site of action, it

must cross this double layer before getting into the membranes. Absorption, regardless of the

site, is dependent upon drug solubility in the double layer. The higher the solubility, the higher the

absorption, therefore the higher the bioavailability.

How can micellized compounds have better absorption?

When amphoteric surfactant is dissolved in aqueous solution, the molecules of the compound

tend to aggregate and form a ball-like structure called micelle:

 

 

 

 

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Big blue hydrophilic “heads” group towards the outside of the ball while little hydrophobic “tails”,

which are oil-like, group inside the ball “away” from the solution. Because of the nature of the

micellar structure, micellization can solubilize fat-soluble compounds inside the ball and increase

solubility of the compounds in the double layer dramatically, hence increasing their bioavailability.

EMUSOL® MICELLIZATION

Recognizing the advantages of aqueous preparation of fat-soluble nutrients over oil forms,

research during the past years has concentrated on improving the design of new dosage forms

that substantially increase the effectiveness of such formulations. Much of this activity has

focused on the development of micro-emulsion systems in which an oil is divided into very small

droplets (< 0.1 micron) referred to as “micelles”.

 

 

 

 

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The use of micellar technology not only improves the efficacy of the product but allows a

reduction in the total dose. One of the breakthroughs in nutritional delivery systems is the unique

EMUSOL® MICELLIZATION PLUS process. The uniqueness of this process is easily

demonstrated by observing the resulting transparent solution when a micellized nutrient is added

to water. There is abundant evidence in the scientific literature that fat-solubles are more

effectively absorbed from aqueous preparations than from oily forms.

 

 

 

 

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advantage is the increase in amount and rate of absorption.

 

 

ENHANCED BIOAVAILABILITY

Several studies have been conducted on the EMUSOL® micelle vitamin preparations to

determine the effectiveness of this delivery system when compared with both standard oil forms

and other emulsified forms. The studies were conducted in a random crossover fashion with

normal healthy individuals varying in sex and age. The following information is a summary of the

results:

VITAMIN E

FIVE TIMES GREATER ABSORPTION

Platelets play an important role in thrombus formation in arterial vascular walls which may lead to

vascular disease. It has been suggested in the scientific literature that vitamin E exhibits antiplatelet

activity.

 

 

 

 

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absorption of Vitamin E in oil form is lower than 25% in normal humans.

 

 

 

 

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Dosage of 500 IU of d-alpha-tocopheryl acetate were administered to the 12 subjects and the

plasma levels were measured as an increase over baseline levels (19.8 micromoles/liter) at 4 and

24 hours. Figure 3 shows the results of the comparative absorption increases of vitamin E plasma

levels of the oil, emulsified and EMUSOL® form at 4 and 24 hours. Table 1 indicates the relative

increases in absorption.

The data indicates that the EMUSOL® form of vitamin E showed a 4.8 times increase over the oil

form at 4 hours and 5.0 times increase at 24 hours. It also showed that the EMUSOL® form

increased plasma levels more than twice that of the emulsified form.

OVER FOUR TIMES FASTER ABSORPTION

In a separate study, the rate of the absorption (micromole/liter/hour) was compared using 500 IU

of the oil, emulsified and EMUSOL® forms of d-alpha-tocopheryl acetate. Figure 4 shows the

results of this study. Table 2 indicates the comparative rates of absorption observed.

The data indicates that the EMUSOL® form of vitamin E is absorbed 4.5 times faster than the oil

form. It was also absorbed nearly twice as fast as the emulsified form.

VITAMIN A

FIVE TIMES GREATER ABSORPTION

Human subjects were given 50,000 IU vitamin A palmitate in either an oil, emulsified or

EMUSOL® form. The blood plasma levels were measured as an increase over baseline levels

(2.675 micromoles/ liter) at 4 and 8 hours. Figure 5 illustrates results while Table 3 provides a

summary of the relative increases.

The data indicates that the EMUSOL® form of vitamin A showed a 5.4 times increase over the oil

form at 4 hours and a 4.7 at 8 hours. It also showed that the EMUSOL® form increased plasma

levels more than twice that of the emulsified form.

EMUSOL® is a registered trademark of Micelle Laboratories, Inc.

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