Rosacea

hello Everyone!

Lately I am encountering people with rosacea. I had no idea it was something more than a red face or a tendency to blush or flush. I found a website (see link) http://www.internationalrosaceafoundation.org which is full of information. What I will try to do here is summarize what I learned for you.

Rosacea is first and foremost a systemic problem that manifests in the symptoms of rosacea.
Oddly, this is coming up more and more. The links to too much sugar, phony sugars, acidic foods, poor digestion and elimination. The body is attempting to cope with an overload of the wrong acidic factors from too many of these foods: breads, starches, alcohol and phony sugars.

My friend had a severe case of skin cancer. She went to a holistic MD who immediately put her on a diet to change the PH of her system. She followed it religiously for approximately 8 months. At the end of that time her skin cancers were gone. So there definitely is something to this. Add in the element of not enough pure water intake and simply moving about, exercising, walking. The body is a finely tuned system that certainly can take quite a bit of abuse, but there is the point where it cannot keep up with the constant drip, drip, drip of toxins we consume. I am convinced that a wholesome diet of organic foods is essential, as well as using only organic products eliminates much of the overload that the body tries to endure.

My grandmother lived to be 90 years old. Here death certificate said "natural causes". True enough. She was of solid peasant stock from Serbia. She worked hard, physically all her life. She dug in the garden, cleaned the house every Friday like the priest was coming for an inspection. She threw herself mightily into all her projects, especially cooking. She made strudel from scratch, as well as raised donuts and stuffed peppers. The difference in her day? The foods were not toxic. Her doctor constantly chastised her to lose 25-30 pounds. He died at 65. In her day people were not so sedentary, the foods were whole and pure. They enjoyed their food and their work.

My point? Joy (the absolute lack of stress) is an element critical to physical well being as well as and obviously emotional well being. I used to work with my Gram in the garden, and she loved the small things, enjoying the whole of just being there. The smell of the earth, the green of the plants, the beauty of the flowers. She was always wholly engaged in the activity and not worrying about something future or past. She lived right now. No stress. No anxiety. Couple this internal state with wholesome foods, nothing every packaged or fast food...you have the recipe for a healthy body and a good life.

Back to rosacea. Start with a good digestive system, which starts with wholesome, whole foods in balance. Leave off the white breads and go easy on the starches, alcohol and absolutely eliminate anything chemical (sugars and oils) from your diet. Enjoy the goodness of pure foods.
Walk about. Stretch and exercise your body and feel how good it feels to be in that body. Taste the goodness of pure water. What you're aiming for here is to get your body system back to alkaline rather than acid. Eat fresh vegetables, yogurt with live cultures, give thanks for such abundance and goodness.

My thinking is that roacea is a first road sign that your system if out of balance and in need of attention. Attention now avoids more serious dis-ease later.

One Group makes several products that can help internally and externally. Internally is In Liven a probiotic (good bacteria) food supplement that is 100% certified organic; and when taken daily restores the natural flora and fauna within the digestive track that can help process sugars and carbohydrates and proteins and move them on out of the system easily and elegantly. In conjunction is Berry Radical Antioxidant, a superfood that is also 100% certified organic. When taken daily gives you the necessary dietary requirements to combat free radicals that cause havoc in the body. And topically, together with their 100% certified organic skin care system is their Miessence Couperose Serum which works topically together with the internal treatments. The System taken as a system works beautifully.

I told you this would be a place for honest information about good skin care. It includes the whole package of you: mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically. The "symptoms" of anything are the symptoms of dis-ease that is to say, unease and imbalance. I'm devoted to your becoming beautifully in balance from the inside out.

Thanks for reading!

Kath

The Whole View of Skin Care

Hello Everyone,

Since we're just getting started in this blog, I feel it's important to discuss our internal state of affairs and its importance to beautiful, healthy skin.

You can't consume things of little quality and expect to produce quality. It just doesn't work that way. There are laws that operate in Nature; the principle Law being that of Attraction. Like attracts like. So when you understand this in one area, you can apply to all arenas. Beauty attracts beauty, love attracts love, goodness attracts goodness, health attracts health.....so where to begin?

The fundamental step in any beauty regimen is to see and feel yourself as beautiful, lovely, unique and valuable. No matter what your eyes are seeing. So the foundation is to begin valuing yourself just as you are. I have lovely eyes. I love the tilt of my chin. I think my dimples are cute. I love the freckles on my nose. I love the color of my skin. If you don't, you have to start changing the way you see yourself from critical and wanting, to appreciative and having. So I want you to start today to appreciate that skin, those eyes, that nose, that whole body. Love it, adore it, cherish it. And if you can't get to that place, begin where you are and grow that love and adoration of yourself daily.

Stop criticizing yourself. If you notice something you want to improve, then you have to immediately find something you love. Tit for Tat. And then as the days go by, grow the appreciation list and diminish the critical list. This you must do, for the vibration of who you are emanates from within outward. You've all seen the pretty girl with the cruel look. You've all seen the old woman with the twinkle in her eye. You are the one who determines by your internal state how you appear in the physical. I cannot be any other way.

Skin care treatments are topical. They address the physical only. We use them to support the physicality whilst we put into place the mindset that maintains a healthy, vibrant, vital and youthful countenance. Skin care is also fun and nurturing. I find the daily ablutions that I perform are times I cherish. I am with Me. I am loving this face, this body and spending time appreciating it. The whole process nourishes me body, mind and spirit. I feel well about me. I love performing it for me. It gives me the time to focus on how much I appreciate this body and how I love it.

Your spirit flows through you from within to without. The degree that it flows unrestricted by stress, negative thoughts, doubt, worry, hate, etc....is the degree that your Spirit will nourish and feed each and every cell of your body. And health is your natural state of beingness.

In Western Culture we are returning to these Truths, slowly but surely. If you want to look 30 but you're 60, is that about regret for a life yet unlived? If so, change that and start living the life you want to live. Can you see how gorgeous someone is at 50-60-79? Cultivate that...seeing the beauty everywhere and in everyone. When you can do this, you are seeing the divinity in all things and all people. Living in that internal state will transform your external countenance.

Appreciate this life and every single minute of it. No moment wasted. You're exactly where you are supposed to be, and headed where you want to go - in joy and adventure. It ain't over, and it's never over. There's always time and it's right now. The best potion for beauty is to love, so go out there and love!

Skin care begins within. Check out my website www.appliedspirituality.com and my blog www.appliedspirituality.blogspot.com.

Believe as a child, it is so. You already are beautiful.

Thanks for reading!

Kath

Xenohormones - Get The Facts

Hi Everyone,

Today we're going to learn about xenohormones. I first learned about this in 2004 when a very dear friend of mind was diagnosed with multiple large fibroid tumors within her uterus. She was past menopause. I can tell you now that she did successfully shrink all the tumors and a hysterectomy was avoided. She did it by transforming her diet, what she used on her skin, and by eliminating her exposure to xenohormones. Like you, she had no idea until this situation occurred.
So, the good news is, it is reversible and it's avoidable. So let's get started.

Let's start at the beginning. This is taken directly from http://www.womenlivingnaturally.com/articlepage.php?id=73. I quote. I put the take notice areas in pink.

"Xenohormones are man-made substances that are foreign to the body and have a hormone-like effect. Most xenohormones have an estrogen-like effect and so are sometimes called xenoestrogens.

Common sources of Xenohormones

• Synthetic estrogens and progestins, as are found in oral contraceptives and conventional hormone replacement therapies.
  
  
• All American-grown, non-organic livestock, which are fed estrogenic drugs to fatten them.
  
  
• Petrochemically-derived pesticides, herbicides and fungicides.
  
  
• Solvents and adhesives (as in fingernail polish and polish remover, glue, cleaning supplies).
  
  
• Car exhaust.
  
  
• Emulsifiers found in soaps and cosmetics.
  
  
• Almost all plastics, given off especially when plastics become hot or are heated.
  
  
• Industrial wastes such as polychlorinated biphenyls(PCBs) and dioxins.

Disorders related to Xenohormone exposure

• Increase in reproductive-site cancers (breast, uterine, & ovarian).
  
  
• Decreased fertility.
  
  
• Increased PMS problems.
  
  
• Estrogen dominance epidemic.

NOTE: You can absorb xenohormones by ingestion, inhalation and direct skin contact.

What You can do to minimize Xenohormone exposure

• Avoid all synthetic and horse hormones (oral contraceptives and conventional HRT).
  
  
• Eat Certified organic meat and dairy, and/or avoid the fat of non-organic meat and dairy (this is where the xenohormones will concentrate).
  
  
• Decrease or stop all conventional pesticides, lawn and garden chemicals, etc. (use natural instead). Don't contract with conventional lawn services that use these sprays (most do); they are extremely toxic, and full of xenohormones.
  
  
• Wear protective gloves and clothing when in contact with any glues, solvents, cleaning solutions, etc., that contain xenohormones.
  
  
• Buy cosmetics and skin care and personal care products without xenohormones.
  
  
• Avoid particle-board, synthetic-fiber carpets and fake woods as much as possible. (Those chemicals you smell are toxins and xenohormones.)
  
  
• Ventilate properly when in contact with any of these materials. (Think ahead; for example, if you do install synthetic-fiber carpets, do so when the windows can be opened-it takes months to out-gas the chemical.)

Estrogen dominance is when your body has excess estrogen in relation to the amount of progesterone.This almost always occurs when women have used birth control and are exposed to exogenous sources of "estrogen like" chemicals/xenohormones. Estrogen dominance can be reduced by supplementing with Bioidentical progesterone cream and by reducing your exposure to environmental toxins or xenohormones. "

So what does this have to do with you? Everything. When you consume foods that have pesticides, you are consuming xenohormones. When you apply cosmetics that use synthetic preservatives, you are consuming xenohormones. You body does not know what to do with these "false" estrogens. So they are "stored" in areas like your breast, your uterus, your ovaries. This is also true for children and young adults, boys and girls alike. When you consider how many ways in a day that you are "consuming" xenohormones, it becomes problematic by its frequency and intensity. Every time you microwave in plastic. The plastic water bottle that you leave in the car. Your skin lotion, the SPF, the shave cream, the pesticides in the water supply, prescribed medicines.

Better living through chemistry is not necessarily so.

Here's what can you do?

• Use glass or ceramics whenever possible to store food and water
• Heat food up in the microwave in glass or ceramic covered dish
• Use a simple detergent with less chemicals. This includes laundry detergents and household cleaners
• Use certified organic soaps, shampoo and personal care products.
• Use natural pest control not pesticides
• Don't use herbicides instead use a cup of salt in 4ltr of vinegar

• Wear natural fibres

• Buy hormone free certified organic meats
• Buy organic produce, vegetables and fruits grown without pesticides, herbicides or synthetic fertilizes or hormones
• Use anti-oxidant supplementation of Vit A,C,E to combat Xeno-Estrogen effects
• Eat Broccoli Cabbage etc.
  
• Use condoms without spermicides instead of birth control
  
• Avoid parabens used in skin lotions.Check the ingredients
  
• Balance your system with natural progesterone creams (yam, cohash, thistle) that have no parabens.
  

Now you're informed. Take it one step at a time. It took me over a year to transform my cosmetics and medicine chest. I bought a stainless steel to go mug. I use a recycled iced tea bottle for water. I use glass for heating up foods in the microwave. But do begin. You're worth it and so are all the members of your family.

Thanks for reading!


Kath