I just finished reading a book on the biochemical causes of obesity.  The bottom line of the material in the book comes down to fructose - the sweet half of the sugar molecule.  This single food in our diet seems to be the major cause of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and even many cancers.  The enzyme that breaks down fructose (fructokinase) and the metabolic product of fructose metabolism - uric acid - have been show by the researchers writing this book to directly cause these diseases. 

Toward the end of the book, they were discussing natural substances that can help prevent these diseases and even reverse the damage we have already accumulated.  Of particular interest was a story they related about a tribe of Indians living on the San Blasé islands just outside of Panama.  They have been studied since the 1940's when it was noticed that they have unusually low rates of blood pressure problems, almost no heart disease and almost no cancer.

For a while it was thought that they must have special genes for health that the rest of us are missing.  But when these same Indians went and lived in Panama and lived the normal lifestyle there, their rates of these diseases were just like everyone else.  So genes were not the answer.  Harvard researchers did exhaustive studies of the diets of these Indians and concluded that the reason they were so healthy was because they drank at least 4 cups of a special cacao bean beverage every day.  The cacao beans contain very high levels of the special flavanols epicatechin, catechin, and procyanidins.  These phytochemicals are found to be protective against these most common diseases of modern society.

Now some of your are thinking, "Aren't cacao beans what chocolate is made from?"  Yes, you are right.  So why don't we see these amazing benefits from the chocolate we eat?  Well phytochemicals are delicate, and are destroyed by what we do to make the chocolate we consume in this country.  Cacao bean powder is naturally a rather bitter tasting substance.  We heat process the chocolate, alkalinize (dutch) the chocolate, mix it with lots of sugar, add back in the cocoa butter, and usually combine it with milk solids.  Every one of these steps destroys flavanols until by the time we get our chocolate bar at the checkout stand at the grocery store, there is no health benefit left and lots of health damage now created.

Reducing the sugar and leaving out the milk helps a lot and so dark chocolate is now recommended as a health food because a little bit of the original health benefit remains.  But it is only a drop in the bucket compared to the health giving power of pure cacao powder.  The life giving flavanols we want are water-soluble, so cooking up a water based beverage from just cacao powder gives us the maximum harvest of the healthful phytochemicals.  Essentially making a coffee out of cacao beans instead of coffee beans and drinking that all day long is a fountain of youth.

Some day there may be a cacao based Starbucks on every corner where we can choose cacao beans from all over the world with which to make our daily brew. But in the mean time I have decided to create an instant simpler version we can enjoy and receive the benefits from right now.  Not content to simply bring this amazing brew to you as described, I have chosen to make it even more amazing by adding the benefits of the miraculous Moringa Oleifera leaf to the beverage as well as the diabetes supporting benefits of stevia.

The health benefits of Moringa are immense.  It is considered the most nutrient rich food source on the planet.  It has a list of medicinal uses several pages long, and it is able to grow on land not suitable for most any other crops and able to survive drought better than most any other plant.

Stevia is best known as a powerful natural sweetener, but it has also been found to be specifically beneficial for diabetics.  Stevia has been shown to reduce insulin resistance as well as improve the body's ability to actually create insulin.  This is the essence of modern type 2 diabetes, and stevia fights it head on.  On a very practical level, the stevia enables us to make the beverage less bitter and sweeter without adding any health destroying sugar to the mix.  I am deliberately making my elixir not very sweet to accommodate the tastes of current coffee drinkers.  It is easy to increase the sweetness of the Healing Elixir by using my Super Sweet drops to make it taste like a hot cocoa.  You could even add coconut milk or almond milk to make it like a milk chocolate.  But do not add cows milk, as the cow milk proteins bind up and destroy the flavanols we are trying to get from the beverage.

So I would like to introduce you to:

Dr Dave's Magic Healing Elixir

You have the power of pure organic cacao powder, mixed with organic Moringa Leaf powder, and organic Stevia Leaf powder in just the right proportions to make an easy to use instant hot drink.  I suggest replacing your coffee habit with this Elixir for a real boost in your health.  The cacao powder has no caffeine that jacks you up then drops you down a couple hours later, and no massive loads of sugar that do the same thing plus set you up for early death from all the modern diseases caused by sugar.  Instead cacao has a better stimulant called theobromine, which lifts you up gently and sustains that lift for about 5 to 6 hours.  It does not cause the damage to your adrenal glands that caffeine does.  And as everyone knows, a cup of hot cocoa does not keep you awake at night like coffee does.

This stuff is a win on every front.  It does what coffee does for us that we like only better without the negative stuff.  It supports the fight against hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and all the rest (as found with the Kuna Indians), plus all the benefits offered by the Moringa Leaf powder and the Stevia.  It tastes delicious.  It is simple to make - just add 1 to 2 teaspoons of the Elixir powder to piping hot water and drink up.  Feel the boost from the cacao and the buzz from the Moringa and enjoy life.

I will have an open jar for everyone to try a sample of Magic Healing Elixir at the office so come on by and give it a try.

Maybe I should call it "Loving Life Elixir"...what do you think?



David               

Take care,

David            

Antibiotic 'apocalypse' warning

The chief medical officer for England says we have a much more pressing apocalyptic concern that simple things like global warming.  We are on the verge of a return of the bad old days of massive plagues wiping out huge chunks of the human population because we have bred strains of deadly bacteria that are now resistant to all our remaining antibiotics because of our over use of antibiotics in the past.  Every year more types of bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics as they get stronger and stronger through selective breeding by being exposed to too many antibiotics.  MRSA, e.coli, tuberculosis, and gonorrhea are all becoming immune to treatment by antibiotics, and the list is growing.

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Loneliness Is Bad for Your Health
 

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Japanese Restaurant Builds Menu Around Dirt

How does potato starch and dirt soup, salad with dirt dressing, a dirt risotto with sauteed sea bass, dirt ice cream, and a dirt mint tea sound to you?  Well it seems some people think it is worth spending over a hundred dollars for a dinner of dirt if it is presented in a trendy restaurant.  Of course this is no ordinary dirt, but a particular black soil from Kanuma in Japan that has been tested for purity.  So it is for sure pure dirt and not some artificial knock off dirt from who knows where.

 "I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer. "

~Friedrich Holderlin  

About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years.  He began experimenting with  medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis.  In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education.  Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic.  He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice. 
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health. 
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities. 
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth.  The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework.  Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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