Active Elements Product Update

For the past few months we have been moving our manufacturing to a new location and changing our processes. Owing to the stringent Therapeutic Goods Administration regulations that operate in Australia, this has been a very costly and time-consuming exercise. We believe that we are now through the worst of it and all this short-term pain will be more than offset by the long-term benefits.

The good news is is that all homeopathic actives (commencing with the current batch of ‘Active 2.3’), will be prepared by us. All starting materials are sourced from European suppliers and all are in conformity with international homeopathic pharmacopoeia.

All our physical active & excipient raw materials are only sourced from the World’s most respected suppliers. No raw material is sourced from Asia.

Every ingredient used by Active Elements is the purest and most expensive that the Pharmaceutical World has to offer. This position will never be compromised.

These changes underscore our commitment to not only our future, but also your future too; and most importantly, the health future of our end consumers.

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How does insoluble Calcium Fluoride get into the body?

Hello Gary,
Has there been any determination on how calcium fluoride is uptaken by the body's metabolic processes?
CaF is insoluble, thus ionic means are most unlikely....some suggest an 'active process' is utilised, but to date I am unable to find an easily understood description of absorption.

Terry
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Gary responds:
There is a carrier facilitated active transport system for calcium Fluoride (CaF), where it is transported and incorporated into bone as such. However; I do not know of the precise mechanism and not sure if anybody really does.

What is known though, is that it works and it’s heaps safer in similar concentrations (like 80 – 120 times) than sodium fluoride (NaF) which I regard as being a poison that should never be in our toothpaste and municipal water. NaF is a highly toxic byproduct of aluminium smelting that has serious disposal problems. What could be a more ingenious solution: Feed it to human beings!

NaF does harden enamel and bones but not without being implicated in a wide range of illnesses including cancer. CaF, on the other hand, is found naturally in all healthy humans and is one of the 12 essential Schuessler Tissue salts. If we are to be feeding fluoride to our children, surely it should only be the form that is found in the body - calcium fluoride?

And... it is only used in our Active Elements formulas homoeopathically (1:1,000,000) anyway.

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If I have let my Active Elements slip, is it worth starting up again?

Is it worth starting up again?

Yes, you can stop and start with your Active Elements prescription anytime.  Unlike most prescription medications, it is seldom wise to stop and start, or to be sporadic when taking them.  The Active Elements, like all nutrition supplements are generally very safe to stop, to start any time or to forget to take for a few days or even weeks.

It is best to be consistent for 3 months at a time

Of course, to get the best benefits from any nutrition supplements, including Active Elements, it is best to take the prescribed dose consistently for about 3 months while carefully taking note of subtle signs of well-being such as the condition of your hair, skin and nails, your energy levels, digestion, sleep and feelings of well-being.  If you are an athlete, then you have the advantage of having accurate measures of performance such as time trials or weight lifted or thrown.  Note any improvements in performance, fewer lost training days through injury and illness, faster recovery and so on.

Tissue salts are the foundation of good health

Tissue salts are the foundation of cellular health with the Active Elements programme designed to help you achieve near perfection in cell salt balance.  On top of the tissue salts, one then adds other nutrients such as vitamins, enzymes and antioxidants to same some - according to assessed need.  But there is little point in taking these other nutrients if the tissue salt balance is awry.

Should I take tissue salts if I am healthy?

You constantly lose tissue salts through shed hair and skin, urine and faeces.  We also wrongly assume that the modern diet is a rich source of the tissue salts that make up the salty solution that bathes every cell in our bodies.  When you complete the online Active Elements assessment, your prescription is worked out according to your responses, which I review and comment on.  If you are in basically good health, this is taken into account when working out your tissue salts prescription (incidentally, this is always two bottles of different tissue salt formulations).  

The prescription that is worked out for you is designed to get you healthy and to keep you that way.

How to resume your tissue salts therapy

You can resume your Active Elements programme by contacting me - gary@myotec.co.nz and I can send you more of your most recent prescription.  If it has been more than a few months, then it is best to do another Active Elements assessment which I will review and comment on.

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Natural Therapies, including Active Elements Tissue Salts continue to work their magic

"Hi Gary
I hope you had a great Christmas with the family.

I thought I would show you these great pictures compared to June of those legs. There is a big difference."

"F"

Please go here for the full article, including the latest photos.....

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Gary - should I take the extra tissue salts before or after the exercise?

"Gary - should I take the extra tissue salts before or after the exercise?"
Isobel
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Gary:
Isobel,
Take 2 of each per day of your prescribed Active Elements (Or as per the prescription advice I have given you in the most recent report)  and repeat the online assessment about every 8 weeks. I will review the results and report to you with any adjustments.

Active 3.1 is the best one to take before, during and after exercise (such as a 2 hr run or 3-4 hr cycle in heat) because it contains the salts most often depleted during hard exercise and sweating.  If you are a light sweater then you may only need one before, during and after an hour or longer of heavy exercise.  If you are a very heavy sweater, then you might take one or two more on top of that.  If your current prescription does not include Active 3.1, and you are exercising hard in heat, such as marathon training voer summer, then add Active 3.1 to your list.

Ensure you are well hydrated.  Read my articles about hydration and consider purchasing a Salter 9106 Body Compostition Analyser Scale.  These are selling about half retail from my website store for the time being.

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I suffer muscle cramps in my calves when running trail races

Hi Gary,
I am a 51 year old female distance runner mainly doing 20 --80k trail races. For the past 3 years every time I race I get muscle cramps in my calves and drop placings as I have to reduce my pace to a walk and or jog.

What I don't understand is that I often do the same type of training as I would be doing in the race regards, distance, speed and terrain and cannot induce cramp. I even "look after" myself better in races by being for careful with electrolytes, fluid intake etc.... Is it possible that something sub concious like perhaps my mind working more because it's a race, possibly contributing to needing even more electrolytes or the tension causing the muscles to tense etc... Often these cramps cause me to have a fall if I'm in a trail race and they seize me. The only thing I haven't tried is straight salt but am wondering if that would make any diffrence at all seeing as I don't have a problem during training. Could you please tell me more about the salt you mention on your web site as I'm desperate to give anything a go.

Regards,
Averill

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Gary:

Averill, From experience racing and what you do in training have subtle differences that can make all the difference.  In a race you may start just that little bit quicker, the start may be earlier in the day to your usual training, you may have fewer pauses and you may be going at just a few heartbeats more.  

It may also be that you have not allowed adequate recovery over the 10 days leading into the races.  The other factor is the the calf muslces are tight and knotted and have poor circulation through them.  Few runners do not have damaged calf muscles.  A series of 4-8 deep tissue massages  weekly can make a huge difference to the strength and durability of them.

The other factor is nutrition.  Given your age and background, there will be a high possibility that you are lacking a number of essential nutrients.  The best way to resolve this is to complete an Active Elements Assessment and include in the additional information box details of everything you have eaten and drunk over the last day and list all medicines and their purposes.  I will then give some advice as to nutrition.

Ordinary salt is NaCl.  While your body needs a lot of this salt there are actually 12 different salts consisting of 18 individual elements.  Taking just NaCl is not a good idea and might even make matters worse.  It is better to do the Active Elements Assessment and I will work out which of the 12 salts, including NaCl, that you need.  Getting your salt balance right can work miracles for muscle cramps and health in general.

How about sports drinks?

Sports drinks are a one size fits all solution to electrolyte replacement.  I know of one Iron Man who spent a week in intensive care from flushing his system with a popular sports drink during a race.  He has never been the same since.  It is better to work out a tailored electrolyte plan for each person.

Have a read of my Super Smoothie recipe which is a nutritious way to replenish before and after the kind of exercise and competition you are doing.

If you ensure your body is richly supplied with nutrients before and after exercise and the muscles are without knotts then cramping should never be an issue.

Given that you ensure there is a rich supply of calories and nutrients during the race itself (I recommend mostly only water during a training session).  Have a good look at the new Balance Ultimate Recovery drink that is remarkably like my Super Smoothie.  It contains all the additional ingredients that I recommend for athletes while being in a fruit juice base.  It makes an excellent, highly tolerable alternative to the sports drink.  I like it.

Those clients of mine who used it during the recent round Lake Taupo cycle race all did personal bests and had no problems with cramping or post race soreness.

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Mineral Therapy and Tennis Elbow

I have a chronic case of tennis elbow for which I was treated about 18 months ago with a cortisone shot into the elbow area....
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How do I improve my hydration?

"My naturopath told me that the water I’m drinking wasn’t hydrating me, which I suspected since it leaves me feeling thirsty. It’s Multi-pure filtered water (solid carbon block filter, which doesn’t remove beneficial minerals but I’m in Portland and we hardly have any minerals in our water anyway – it’s very soft.) 

He recommended San Pellegrino mineral water, which does hydrate me much better but it’s very expensive and I don’t feel it’s getting to the root of the problem. I have been trying an electrolyte product (see info below) for a couple weeks– not a sports drink but just electrolytes that you add to your water and when I add this to my Multi-Pure water it does hydrate me much better. 

I hauled out my very ancient “Schussler’s biochemistry” book thinking there may be some answers there, and then decided to check tissue salts and hydration online and came across you website. Any suggestions? Thanks" Beth
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Beth, while hydration is important, I do not think the type of water is going to have much, if any influence.  Please read this article.

The first thing to do is to determine if you really are hydrated/dehydrated by making use of some good science.  The best thing to do is to get a set of body composition scales and use them at the same time every day, like mornings after you have toileted and and before eating.  

If you are consistently urinating several times a day and your body composition scales show consistent hydration, then you are hydrated and you can therefore stop giving your money to an over-sized water bottling company.  If you have a set of Salter 9106 Scales, which are the ones I use with clients, then you can send me your results and I will comment in more detail.

If you are getting enough water then the best way to improve hydration is to ensure you have as clsoe to perfect balance in your tissue salts, rather than trying to drink more water.  Complete the Active Elements Assessment here to find out your tissue salts needs.

You should also be exercising regularly with a combination of aerobic and strength work.  Interestingly, aerobic exercise in hot conditions will increase hydration by stimulating an increase in blood volume.

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Preventing cramp in a long distance runner

"Hi Gary
Tried what you said last night. I went to bed and felt a bit of cramp in my toes and inside of leg and if I pointed my toes forward they instantly cramp, so went and got the Active Elements and chew/swilled them and cramp dissappears straight away.

I guess this means that I need to increase the daily dose but I would also appreciate any ideas you have for what to do during the long races, like Lake to Lighthouse will be 9-10 hour day 1 and 7-8 hrs day 2. Some guys I train with add half teaspoon sea salt /litre to their drinking water? Any ideas would be very much appreciated.

Thanks Gary."

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Do Natural Health Therapies Work?

Here is the account of a person who has been using the Active Elements:

"Gary, I have to give you a very big thank you for advising me on curing the leg from the inside. The GP's and skin specialist failed to better the condition from the outside. It only got worse.

I will still keep up with what you have advised hoping it will be cured up to 100%".

Go here to read....

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I don't think Homeopathic Remedies Work, so I don't believe the Active Elements Therapy will help me

I tend to agree with you that homeopathy involving excessive dilution of a substance does not work. The evidence is sketchy at best.

Homeopathy has evolved down a few paths over the last hundred or so years and we must be careful that we do not throw out the baby with the bath water.

Dilution of a substance to the point of virtual non-existence does not really make sense.

But it sure does make very good sense to replenish the cells of the salts that are found in the body and to do so in accordance with calculated need. The homeopathic principle of supplying only as much as is needed to gain the maximum benefit makes good sense, as does the idea that any more may transform a nutrient into a poison.

I have studied exercise physiology, physics, chemistry and biochemistry to tertiary level.  I have recently attended two course in tissue salts therapy: One by Dr Les Fisher of Active Elements and the other by the German Institute of Biochemic Medicine.  In both cases, the detailed explanation of the biochemistry behind tissue salts therapy made very good sense and good science.

The Active Elements assessment programme which I subscribe to is based on homeopathic diagnostic and prescribing principles; but the formulations are in small therapeutic doses. One can tell this by the salty taste of the tablets.

The dose contained in each tablet of each salt is small. This is intended to be so, since we do not want to supply any of the tissue salts at a concentration which the body can not safely incorporate them into the cells. Hence the need for patience over at least three months in order to see tangible benefits (In some cases the benefits are overnight).

Note:

What I have written here is admittedly at risk of gross over-simplification of a form of therapy that has been around for a very long time.  Dana Ullman, MPH, has written to me pointing out the errors of my ways and recommended the article and website here. These are an excellent way to begin one's exploration of homeopathy.  Thanks Dana!

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Fluoride is a poison so I won't take tissue salts that contain flouride

Correction:
Sodium Fluoride (NaF) is a poison.
Calcium Fluoride (CaF2) is nutrient that is found in tiny amounts in all healthy bodies.

Sodium Fluoride is a toxic by product of aluminium smelting.  There has been a problem with disposing of this waste.  Cynics believe that some enterprising person in the smelting industry came up with the idea of feeding it to humans, enlising the support of dentists and public health experts to have it added to municipal water supplies.  While Sodium Fluoride may strengthen teeth, I am personally opposed to its addition to water supplies.

If health officials really are interested in health promotion they would ban Sodium Fluoride and encourage the ingestion of small amounts of Calcium Fluoride.

In the human, Calcium Fluoride is contained in the cells of the upper skin, in the tooth enamel, in the surface of the bones, as well as in all the elastic fibres of the body.  You do not naturally find Sodium Fluoride in a human.

Two directions of effectiveness are striking:

• Everything that is hardened becomes smooth with calcium fluoride
• What is too "floppy" and "flappy" receives its natural elasticity from sodium fluoride

Cracked hands, excessive horn (hard skin) production on the hands and feet are striking symptoms of calcium fluoride deficiency.

Other Signs:

Unreasonable fear, restless sleep, reduced vision, cataracts, hearing problems, bone diseases, bone spurs, back pain, loss of elasticity of blood vessels, hard warts and even flat feet can be associated with lack of Calcium Fluoride, to name just a few!

How Much Calcium Fluoride to take?

Answer: Very small amounts spread over your lifetime - no big hits!  The amount of Calcium Fluoride in the Active Elements tablets is very small.  Please read my articles on this blog explaining why "less is more" when it comes to mineral therapy.

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