In January 2006 I published my book, Ten Days to Optimal Health. Now, nine years later, science is catching up with the reality that "death begins in the colon." A book entitled, Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain - for Life, by Dr. David Perlmutter, does a fantastic job explaining what "death begins in the colon" means through cutting edge science and why our microbiome is crucial to our personal and collective health. Dr. Perlmutter also explains the potent interplay between intestinal microbes and the brain, describing how the microbiome develops from birth and evolves based on lifestyle choices, how it can become "sick," and how nurturing gut health through a few easy strategies can alter your brain's destiny for the better.

Dr. Perlmutter's scientific examples include:

• A 2013 report shows that since 1979, death due to brain disease increased 66% in men and 92% in women in the United States, which is connected to an unhealthy microbiome.
• In the ten wealthiest nations, deaths from brain disease - which largely reflects deaths from dementia - have risen dramatically over the past 20 years, which is connected to an unhealthy microbiome. The United States leads the way in dementia deaths.
• Mood and anxiety disorders are on the upswing, which is connected to an unhealthy microbiome. About 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder. About 1 in 10 adults in the U.S. suffer from depression.

 

Do you want to dramatically improve your health? Work through a home nutritional and colon cleanse program using Ten Days to Optimal Health and Brain Maker, with a home enema series process to optimize your microbiome. For support, contact the Optimal Health Network.

 

An excerpt from Ten Days to Optimal Health: "This internal cleansing provides the intestinal tract and the immune system with a "fresh start", since the water flushes out tremendous amounts of toxins, bacterial wastes, and decaying particles residing in the colon. Frankly, most people feel so physically refreshed that they are motivated to start eating well for these first ten days, in order to maintain that good feeling."

 

For a complete explanation, read Chapter 7: Colon Hydrotherapy in Ten Days to Optimal Health.  

 

Your healthy microbiome sustains you. An unhealthy microbiome kills you.

 

Kristina Amelong

 

In early June, I will travel to Ecuador with a team of twenty healers and thought leaders on a Wisdom Exchange on Transformational Leadership program. We will compare and contrast our knowledge base, our collective data. We will donate our time to bring water filters to indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest and the Andes Mountains, people whose fresh water supplies have been destroyed by industrial forces and heavy animal waste. We will exchange knowledge and stories with local professors, students, faculty, and guests at the Universidad de Cuenca. We will grow and network together in an outdoor educational setting as a group of entrepreneurs, healers, and teachers, and we will make a television/web documentary of this journey to share with a much larger audience.

This is a huge step forward for Optimal Health Network. As I prepare for this trip, I am deepening the repository of scientific data which we share through our website on topics such as health begins in the gut and autoimmune diseases and severe infections as risk factors for mood disorders. The new and evolving web content will guide your path to healing within a uniquely multidisciplinary approach. We will explore science and spirituality, Western medicine and clinical practice in an alternative health setting, emotional healing and our collectively stored trauma, the colon cleanse, essential oils to facilitate your ability to listen, and much more!