Himalayan crystal salt is far superior to traditional iodized salt.

Himalayan salt is millions of years old and pure, untouched by many of the toxins and pollutants that pervade other forms of ocean salt.

Known in the Himalayas as “white gold,” Himalayan Crystal Salt contains the same 84 natural minerals and elements found in the human body. This form of salt has also been maturing over the past 250 million years under intense tectonic pressure, creating an environment of zero exposure to toxins and impurities.

Himalayan salt’s unique cellular structure allows it to store vibrational energy. Its minerals exist in a colloidal form, meaning that they are tiny enough for our cells to easily absorb.

The health benefits of using natural Himalayan Crystal Salt may include:

Controlling the water levels within the body, regulating them for proper functioning
Promoting stable pH balance in the cells, including the brain.
Encouraging excellent blood sugar health
Aiding in reducing the common signs of aging
Promoting cellular hydroelectric energy creation
Promoting the increased absorption capacities of food elements within the intestinal tract
Aiding vascular health
Supporting healthy respiratory function
Lowering incidence of sinus problems, and promoting over-all sinus health
Reducing muscle cramps
Increasing bone strength
Naturally promoting healthy sleep patterns
Creating a healthy libido
In combination with water, it is necessary for blood pressure regulation
Prevents cellulite, when compared to table salt
Reduces chances of developing rheumatism, arthritis and gout, when compared to common chemically-treated salt
Reduces chances of developing kidney and gall bladder stones when compared to common chemically-treated salt

Table salt: “The Health Destroyer”

Many people are unaware that common table salt contains chemicals and even sugar! Salt is necessary but can be dangerous if taken in this chemical form.

Table salt is composed of 97.5% sodium chloride and 2.5% chemicals like iodine and absorbents, and sugar. Common salt is dried at more than 1,200° Fahrenheit, a process which zaps many of the natural chemical structures.

The table and cooking salt found in most homes, restaurants, and processed foods is void of nutritional value, lacking beneficial trace minerals. Processing salt turns it into sodium chloride, an unnatural salt the human body actually sees as a toxic invader! The body cannot dispose of it in a natural, healthy way which can lead to inflammation of the tissues, water retention and high blood pressure.

Processed salt crystals are also energetically dead, as their crystals are completely isolated from one another. For the body to metabolize chemical table salt, it must waste tremendous amounts of energy to keep the body at optimum fluid balance. This creates a burden on the elimination systems in the body. Water is removed from other cells in attempt to neutralize the unnatural sodium chloride.

Studies show that for each gram of table salt your system cannot process, your body will use over twenty times the amount of cellular water to neutralize the sodium chloride in chemically-treated salt. This can lead to cellulite, rheumatism, arthritis, gout, as well as kidney and gallbladder stones. The average American consumes 5,000 mg of sodium chloride a day, the issue is serious and needs to be adressed.

Choosing to use Himalayan Salt as an alternative can have a big impact on your total health and well-being. I only use and recommend Original Himalayan Crystal Salt.

Psychedelic Mushrooms for Depression

The skin is so thin, the current of blue streams that are your veins flow rapidly beneath it and are begging to burst free.

“Freedom will be yours soon, and you will flow wildly and freely, the way you are meant to be,” you say.

The knife is too dull though. Breaking out the hunting knives, you try knife after knife. Not a single one penetrates your skin. You give up, not on the act alone, but on the method. Your mission still remains. If you cannot slit, you will saw. It was ignorant of you to think this would be painless anyhow, foolish beyond belief. But you do not remember how to believe, you just pine to bleed. Taking one last look at your loyal dog, you start sawing. Take a second to take this in, just like the blade serrating your skin.

The above is actually an account of my own experience with depression, after two years of failed anti-depressants, various herbs and counselors. Up until the very night I was introduced to the healing benefits of psilocybin, I slept with a knife in the drawer next to me. I sat on the floor at three AM night after night in the dark, knife in my lap. I do not know how much longer I could have gone. Lyme disease had taken me to the edge, to the gap between the walking dead and the already dead. The valley of the shadow of death.
Psychedelic mushrooms saved my life, and I know I am not the only one. The next day, after experimenting with the mushrooms, I took the knife downstairs and never looked back. My depression is non-existent now, along with the countless anti-depressant pills that used to flood my night stand. I can truly stand here today, and say with every ounce of my being, that psilocybin saved my life. 

Alright, let’s get to the alarming facts right off the bat –although quite frankly, they are all pretty alarming. With more than 350 million people suffering from depression across the globe, it is a no brainer that antidepressants are the number one drug prescribed by doctors

“The truth is that even experts aren’t really sure how antidepressants work. There’s just a whole lot we don’t know about how the brain functions. [5]”

Perhaps that last sentence should be, “There’s just a whole lot we don’t know about how the antidepressants we prescribe so freely function.” How does anyone develop a pill without knowing how it will work in the brain? Do they just take their best guess and throw chemicals together, hoping it works when they use humans as guinea pigs? Admitting you do not know everything is a highly respectable act, except when you still continue to alter the brains of human beings without knowing the consequences after doing so.
The answer to how psychedelic mushrooms containing Psilocybin function in the brain to treat depression is far more simple and clear cut. There is an actual answer, as opposed to a slew of “educated” guesses. In depressed individuals, there is over activity in the anterior cingulate cortex. Psilocybin possesses the power to switch off the over activity in this part of the brain. [7] Then, rather than increasing levels of serotonin in the brain, Psilocybin binds to serotonin receptors and mimics them, causing the brain to function as if it has more serotonin without actually altering the levels themselves. This last part is a crucial defining fact in deciding between the safety of antidepressants and psychedelic mushrooms in treating depression.
A serious and potentially fatal syndrome called ‘Serotonin Syndrome,’ which occurs when serotonin levels become too high, can occur from taking antidepressants. Many render this rare, but considering antidepressants increase the chemical serotonin in the brain, developing serotonin syndrome is a possibility to consider; as ‘rare’ is not a synonym for ‘nonexistent.’  Psychedelic mushrooms, on the other hand, do not put you at risk of developing serotonin syndrome because Psilocybin merely mimics serotonin receptors rather than actually increasing serotonin levels.
While psychedelic mushrooms take approximately three hours to work, most antidepressants take two to four weeks to start working, because increasing levels of neurotransmitters is a gradual process [6]. Something about the fact that chemicals are unnaturally building up in your brain is a cause for slight concern, much less the fact that doctors and chemists are unsure of how exactly these antidepressants work.  Messing with chemicals and neurotransmitters in the brain without having a firm grip of how you are doing so does not seem rational, logical, or humane. However, most of us are conditioned from birth to trust our doctors and pharmaceutical companies.
There are not any noted side effects of psychedelic mushrooms, other than the ones you experience while under the influence of them. The laundry list of potential side effects from taking antidepressants includes:

• Immune system problems: SSRI antidepressants cause serotonin to remain in the nerve junctions longer, interfering with immune cell signaling and T cell growth.
• Still births are twice as likely if the mother is on antidepressants
• There is a 40% higher risk of birth defects, such as cleft palate, if the mother is on antidepressants while pregnant.
• 45% higher risk of having a stroke, as antidepressants affect the blood clotting process
• Heart disease
• Sudden cardiac death: your risk of sudden death doubles while on antidepressants.
• Chest pains
• Rapid heart beats
• Headaches and migraines
• Stiff neck
  
• Difficulty urinating
• Excessive perspiration
• Insomnia for some,  chronic fatigue for others
• Loss of appetite
• Agitation
• Shaking
• Vertigo
• Dry mouth
• Constipation
• Diarrhea
• Blurred vision
• Erectile dysfunction
• Inability to orgasm
• Low sex drive
• And let’s not forget, serotonin syndrome

Close to a million lives are lost yearly due to suicide from depression, which comes out to three thousand suicide deaths a day [2]. Unfortunately, that alarming fact alone cannot wake the medical world up to see what they are doing is incorrect, and not working. From the outside looking in, one must admit it appears as if they are selfishly denying people the right to proper, harmless treatments such as Psilocybin containing mushrooms. Why would anyone do such a thing? That is a question we must continually ask ourselves in this day and age, as sincere concern for the public appears to be obsolete in various situations.
Death rates from antidepressants range around forty-thousand annually. Suicidal thoughts and feelings, as well as violent behavior are ironically common side effects of antidepressants. Even more ironic, is the fact that your risk for suicide is twice as high when taking SSRI antidepressants. Death rates from antidepressants are also 32% higher in females [3].
No valid evidence exists to confirm any deaths from magic mushrooms; and deaths from acute poisoning from such mushrooms has not been recorded in medical literature. However, it is imperative to remember there are actually poisonous mushrooms that are entirely different from the typical Psilocybin psychedelic mushrooms referred to in this text. In fact, blindly ingesting the wrong mushroom can prove to be fatal.
All in all, from chemistry explained, to side effects to no side effects, to forty thousand deaths a year to zero deaths a year, it is clear that psychedelic mushrooms can be a more appropriate, safe approach for treating depression. One can only hope for a world where one day we can go to a psychedelic psychologist, take psychedelic mushrooms in a controlled setting, and come out three hours later relieved of depression. Can you imagine? No more monthly doctor fees. No more monthly prescription fees. No more taking a pill a day. No more withdrawals. No more side effects.

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5 Ways You Can Help Beat Childhood Obesity!

By taking steps towards battling childhood obesity early on in their life and taking a pro-active role yourself, you can help prevent this.

One big issue that's becoming a growing concern as time goes on is that of childhood obesity. All you have to do is walk around a playground to really get a good idea just how serious this issue is. With more and more kids growing overweight by the year, this is not only going to place a greater strain on our future health care system, but it's also going to impact these kids confidence with themselves as they grow older.

While bodyweight may not play that large of a factor in the younger ages of five to twelve, once they move past this mark they become more much aware of their larger body size and it will likely affect them in negative ways.

By taking steps towards battling childhood obesity early on in their life and taking a pro-active role yourself, you can help prevent this from becoming a major problem in their lives.

Here are some of the biggest things you should consider with regards to childhood obesity.

1. Emphasize Food Choices Over Dieting

The first thing that you should be making sure you do is emphasizing better food choices over dieting. It's never a good idea to give the young child the impression that they should be restricting their food intake. This can lead to negative associations with food and foster the development of an eating disorder.

Instead, you want to help your child make smarter choices when they are hungry. While you don't want to enforce food restriction, you should enforce them listening to their body's own hunger signals. This is the best way to get them in the habit of correlating their hunger with their food intake at a young age. Then down the road they will be less likely to eat for reasons other than hunger and more likely to stop eating once they are full.

Aim to teach your children the importance of regularly including fruits and vegetables in their day along with lean sources of protein. Try and steer them away from large quantities of very carb-heavy sources such as pasta, large quantities of bread, and all the various snack foods that are available.

Instead focus on whole grain cereals, rice, potatoes, and oatmeal as their starchy carbohydrate sources. By getting them onto these sources at a younger age, there is less of a chance they develop a 'taste' for the other carbohydrate forms that can lead them to trouble later on.

2. Find Activities They Enjoy

Next, you also should be very concerned with finding activities that they enjoy. If a child gets a negative experience of 'exercise' at a young age, it's going to be much harder to remove this image from their mind later on.

Instead, you should seek out activities that they will truly enjoy and want to take part in on a regular basis. Younger children and teenagers are primarily focused on the 'fun factor' in their life, and anything that isn't considered such is quickly going to get dropped for another activity.

What your aim to do will be to replace all their sedentary 'fun' activities with more active counterparts, so that they will gravitate to these instead.

It's fine if they have the odd sedentary activity they enjoy (balance is important), but don't let your child become hooked on the computer, video games, or television as the primary means of passing their spare time.

3. Avoid Comparisons At All Costs

Third, you also need to make sure that at no point you are comparing them to someone else. This is a very big mistake that some people do make and it can set your child up for a lifetime of low self-esteem and their own self-comparisons.

At this young age they are very likely to internalize what they hear their parents and other role models saying. If you are comparing them in a negative way to other children their age, they are going to measure their own self-worth based on this and will not feel as though they are good enough.

Instead, you should place any comparisons you're making on their previous or hoped-for future behavior so they learn that the only person they should be comparing against is themselves.

4. Be A Good Role Model

It's important that you also take the time to assess your own behaviors with regards to eating, exercise, and your own body image when thinking about preventing your child from becoming overweight.

If you are constantly criticizing your own body and how you look, your child will pick up on this. This is especially predominant among young girls, so really watch out for this in particular.

You want to instead make sure you are modeling healthy exercise behaviors, possibly even trying to include your children and young teens in activities you enjoy (going for a bike ride, taking a walk, helping in the garden, etc).

Also be sure you are eating healthfully and often yourself, so your child can see this and try to simulate similar behavior.

It's hardly fair to expect them to sit down and eat a full plate of food at the dinner meal if you choose to skip it altogether, so take the time to sit down with them and eat.

Many families today are extremely busy and sometimes the traditional 'family dinner' does get skipped, but aim to make an effort to sit down together at least once a week for a well-balanced, nutritional meal.

5. Give Compliments In Other Areas Of Their Lives

Finally, the last thing you'll want to do is make sure that you're giving your child compliments with regards to other areas of their life. When you make them feel good about other aspects of themselves you will be doing two things.

First you will be enforcing the fact that their worth is composed of a variety of different factors, and second, you will increase their own beliefs in themselves, so then if they do end up struggling with a weight issue at any point, they will have the personal belief system in place to know that they can overcome this obstacle and get to the weight they'd like to be.

Conclusion

Childhood obesity is an issue that cannot be taken lightly. It may seem like it shouldn't be something you have to concern yourself with when the kids are at such a young age, but it's critical to remember that habits they develop now will be ones that will stick with them down the road. You must do everything you can to make these habits healthy ones.