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HOW DO I MEASURE IMPROVEMENTS IN VISION?

Dr. Miller:  He wanted to know, “how do I measure the improvements to my eye?” and I thought that was a good question for the call.  We’ll talk about this question, and some of these things we’ll circle back to over the next few months..  The most basic thing I recommend for people to measure their sight, is do a bit of an inventory of what you can see and what you can’t see. This process is good for everyone to do.  Write down on a piece of paper: can you read the cereal box, can you read the label in your underwear, the label on the bottle of shampoo, a headline in the paper, the address on the house across the street, the license plate in the car in the street in front of your house, the street signs, the television, big print or small print?  Literally take a piece of paper, write down the things that you can see and the things that you can’t see, put it in a drawer and in a month or two take it out and see if anything has changed.  That’s one of the best ways I know to keep track of your sight. You use the things around you, the things that are in your everyday life help you measure whether you are making improvements. 

I have people that call me, and they’re really pleased. They wake up one morning and suddenly they can read the clock at the side of the bed, where for years they haven’t been able to do it without getting really close to it or using a magnifier.  I had one man who, - I really love this story – that worked in a big box store.  When he first started the program, he’d go to the store in the morning and there were 30 aisles with a big number in front of each aisle which stretched off into the distant from 1 to 30.  When he first started the program he could barely see the number 3.  But after a few months, he could see all the way down to 16, and a few months after, he could see 23. Eventually he could see all the way down to 30.  That did a lot to motivate him to keep going, because he could see for himself that his eyes were getting better.

Sometimes this program can feel a bit difficult. It demands that you invest some time.  So if you have something you can measure that really is telling you that yes, this is making a difference, that’s huge in terms of motivating you.

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HEALTHY DIGESTION AND USING SUPPLEMENTS

Participant: Hi, my question concerns improving digestion.  I’ve taken a prebiotic, the chicory root extract, slightly sweet.  I was wondering what you thought about taking a product like that.  And the other side, I’ve read about the role of bitters, which is not something we take much of these days.  Would it help to take a sprig of parsley or something, maybe with the minerals before you started eating?

Dr. Miller: Those are good questions.  Let me just start by saying, that it is very important to have a healthy digestion.  What we offer in the basic protocol, the Jarro Dophilus is collagen free, probiotic from Jarro Dophilus.  The reason we use that product and start people on it is that a probiotic is the lowest level of support for your digestion.  A probiotic in pill form is a little better than cultured foods, but cultured foods are also a good thing for everyone to include in their diet.  The prebiotic things like chicory root have something called FOS in them, which is included in the Jarro product. That means its both a prebiotic and a probiotic.  We had a question, a little while ago, about whether you would use that Jarro product for the next ten years.  The answer is no. At some point, you probably want to mix it up with a different product.  We have a couple different products that we will talk about as time goes by.  They’re similar in price, but they’re just a little bit of a different brand.

Coming back to the bitters, they can be useful if you digestive system is not healthy. What do I mean by healthy digestion?  You want to probably be having a bowel movement for every large meal you eat.  So if you eat three large meals a day, you probably want to have at least two, preferably three bowel movements; that’s just the way the gut works.  If you’re eating three large meals a day, and you’re only have one bowel movement in a day, you’re probably a bit constipated, even though it may not feel like it.  If you feel like your food is digesting well, meaning you don’t see a lot of undigested food when you go to the bathroom and your stools are formed.  I know this is kind of an impolite conversation, but if your stools are relatively formed and you don’t drive everyone out of the house every time you have a bowel movement because of the smell, things are probably working pretty well. 

Bitters are another thing to add to your diet. Things like parsley and cilantro, are very excellent things for bitters.  One thing from Chinese medicine that was used a lot is tangerine peel.  Tangerine peel tea is something you can buy.  Other bitter substances that people like, that you want to include those in your diet, those are all fine.  Not everybody needs them, but they’re certainly useful and are even more useful if you’re not having a healthy digestive system.  So bitters are great, I don’t think everybody needs to add them, but it’s certainly the next layer. There’s no down side, they’re inexpensive and often can be done just as food without buying another supplement.

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UNDERSTANDING THE TRACE MINERALS WE USE

Participant:  I’ve been taking the Energy Boost for a long time, but I noticed on the mineral list that there are things like cesium and gold and titanium. Is that a problem?  I assume that it’s not, but it is worrisome.

Dr. Miller:  No and that’s a good question.  Energy Boost is derived from ancient plant sources; things like cesium and gold and titanium occur naturally on the earth.  Those products are actually present, but in very, very small amounts.  If you were to do an assay of the potatoes in your grocery store, they would also have equal amounts of cesium and gold and titanium and all the other things that are on that label.  So they are present, but they are present with the same proportions that you find them in anything grown anywhere on the planet.  They’re present in the same proportions or less than what you’d find in all of the foods that you eat that are grown in the dirt.  But they are required to list what is in there, so they list those things, but there’s nothing to be worried about with those.

Participant:  Okay, thanks

Dr. Miller:  In California there’s a law, proposition 67 I believe, that was passed that says if you know for a fact that the building you’re in or the product you’re selling has something that has been defined as toxic, you’re required to put a label on the product.  But the law, has a perverse element to it.  That perverse element is that there are special rules for herbs and supplements, which say if what you are selling has any amount at all of something thought to be toxic like lead, then you have to put a special warning on it. 

The reason I call that perverse is as I just said. If you go into the produce section of your grocery store, anything you tested would have measurable amounts of lead and mercury and titanium.  They would be in very small amounts, but they are measurable amounts of all of these things that are naturally present on the earth. Plants pick them up and they’re there in very tiny, but measurable amounts.  And yet, the law did not require that sweet potatoes have a label on them, just that herbs and supplements did.  So it’s a bit confusing for people, but again these things come from a very clean source. They’re as clean as anything that comes out of the dirt on the earth, and I have no concerns about those trace minerals that are in there.  One last thing is that none of these things are isotopes and none of them are radioactive.

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WHAT BRAND OF LUTEIN WE USE

Dr. Miller:  That’s a good question regarding the Pure Focus.  We had left those instructions (in the workbook), hoping against hope that the company that made it would start making it again.  We’re redoing some of that material, so I’m sorry there was that confusion. 

Pure Focus was the lutein product we had used. It contained a little bit of Gingko in it to help get the lutein into the eyes better.  It was interesting because it was a lyophilized product, meaning it was formed into tiny little fat soluble spheres that could be absorbed through the mucosa of the mouth.  So it was great just for better absorption, but they got into trouble for two reasons.  First, they got into trouble because the FDA said anything that’s lyophilized is a drug, so you’re selling a drug and you have to stop selling a drug unless you go through all the hoops to get it approved as a drug.  They fought the good fight and said that it’s not a drug, it’s a supplement, and we’re allowed to use this manufacturing process.  But in the months and months that it took to do that, they lost their contract with their manufacturer.   Making these things is a kind of alchemy, it’s difficult, so they’re not making it anymore and they can’t find anybody who knows how to make it.  They would love to make it again, but it’s been difficult for them. 

What we’re using now is the lutein from allergy research, called FloraGlo lutein.  It’s a product out of Belgium made of the same raw material.as FloraGlo that was used in the Pure Focus Product. It is far superior to anything else on the market. 

People on eBay or Amazon say they are selling Pure Focus, but don’t buy it!  It’s either horribly out of date, and they’ve just scratched the expiration date off the bottle, or it is a counterfeit.  They’re charging a lot of money for something that really isn’t that good.  So unfortunately, there are some scams out there because it was such a popular product.  There are people trying to counterfeit the box or taking out-dated product and trying to sell it as fresh. 

What we send to you as a product are pills from the company Allergy Research.

If you choose to use a product that is not made from the FloraGlo lutein, we recommend that you double the dose. For instance, we recommend that you take a daily dose of 40mg to 60mg of lutein per day of the FloraGlo product, but we recommend you take 80mg to 120mg per day of other lutein products.