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Probiotic Supplements: Does Your Health Depend On Killing Bacteria or Promoting It?

August 5, 2009Ideal WeightAntimicrobial, Bacteria, carrie tucker, Clarcon Biological Chemistry Laboratory, FDA, health, heart failure solutions, Infectious disease, Opportunistic infection, probiotic supplements, technorati, U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationCarrie Tucker

Are you worried about germs?

Maybe you should be more worried about your sanitizer.

Is Your Sanitizer Killing Germs or You?

If it is made by Clarcon Biological Chemistry Laboratory’s facility in Roy, Utah, you definitely don’t want to use it.

The FDA seized all skin sanitizers and skin protectants, including ingredients and components, after Clarcon voluntarily recalled the affected products but then refused to destroy them immediately.

The reason the FDA is so concerned is because the products contain harmful bacteria and are promoted as antimicrobial agents that claim to:

treat open wounds
treat damaged skin
protect against various infectious diseases

There have been no cases of infectious disease reported, but the FDA says that the products contained high levels of a variety of different bacteria. Some of these bacteria are capable of causing opportunistic infections of the skin and underlying tissues.

This type of infection can require medical or surgical attention and may result in permanent damage.

Obviously this is a worse case scenario. Literally pouring harmful bacteria into an open wound is about as worse case as you can get.

The reason this issue grabbed my attention is that any attempt to make your environment safer by killing bacteria is a flawed plan.

In Clarcon’s case, they are cultivating opportunistic bacteria, bottling it and selling it.

This is gross negligence, however your home has the possibility of being a very dangerous petri dish, too.

If you use anti-bacterial soaps and even sanitizers, you may well be creating mutant bacteria that are capable of much more harm than the bacteria you killed. If you are at war with bacteria, you are fighting a losing battle.

Animals that were raised in a germ-free environment were frequently sick, exhibited grossly underdeveloped immune systems and vulnerable intestinal tracts.

You need to work in harmony with bacteria in order to digest your food. No balance … poor digestion.

Without balance in your body, your normal intestinal flora are over come with yeast and problematic bacteria.

Over time this imbalance can really create serious issues, and will drastically effect your ability to absorb nutrition from your food.

Health Building Begins In Your Bowel!

The number of bacteria in your gut out numbers the number of cells in your body by a ratio of ten to one. This gut flora has incredible power over your immune system.

Make friends with bacteria, and build your health!

Probiotic Supplements are the equivalent of pouring good bacteria down your throat! These friendly bacteria promise BETTER health by:

boosting your immune system
preventing allergic inflammation and food allergy
clearing up eczema in children
healing the intestines from a variety of ailments

Dr. Mercola can explain why supplementing your diet with good bacteria might be YOUR Secret Weapon against disease!

Click on Probiotic Supplements below, and check out what he has to say!

Probiotic Supplements

Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP

The Life Breath Coach

Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Maria Mar Is a Powerful Voice of Wisdom, What Can She Teach You?

July 31, 2009Mind Setcarrie tucker, Happiness, health, heart failure solutions, relationships, Romance, Soul, technorati, toxic relationshipCarrie Tucker

: Image by law_keven via Flickr

Maria Mar is a genius. She knows how to speak in a way that makes your soul sit up straight and pay attention.

No kidding!

After writing my blazing “Are You Swallowing Your Truth?” post, my dear friend Joyce from Lessons From Lyrics sent me a link to Maria’s recent post. Since I felt the urge to share it with everyone I care about it, it was the logical choice to reblog it right here.

Thank You for your inspirational teaching Kumu Maria Mar!

Love Them, But Leave Them

Releasing those who keep you trapped in the old world

written by Maria Mar on July 3, 2009

Today I am writing about a painful subject. It is not easy to release habits. But when you realize that a friend you love, or an old client to whom you have dedicated lots of time, is keeping you spinning in old, harmful habits. What do you do?

I am talking about those moments in life when you have crossed the threshold into a new world. You left dysfunctional habits behind. You stepped into your dream. You released the thoughts and responses that were keeping you from being happy and fulfilling your potential.

You are now your dream, or closer to it than ever. In this new world, you feel the Essence of who you are. You are strong in your faith. You are nurturing your dream every day. You are sustaining your Dream Discipline, dedicating time and space to yourself and your dream. You have given yourself permission to be happy.

Many of the people who love you have understood that you changed. They have supported you in your dreams. They have been able to adapt to your new dynamics. By you changing your set of beliefs, thoughts and attitudes, your relationship with most people around you has improved greatly.

But there is this friend…

There is still this old client…

There are sometimes those who refuse to change because they are the slaves of the Dog of Habit. They allow the Dog of Habit to piss all over you and themselves. They chose not to change.

There are those who danced well with you when you did not set limits, when you caretook them in their every whim, when you kept giving when they were not receiving.

But the minute you set limits, stop caretaking and stand in your value, these people begin to escalate their old, dysfunctional behavior. This is their way of exerting control in a life that feels out of control. Your change feels to them as if they are losing control. They cannot honor your new dynamics. Basically, they do not fit in your new world.

What then?

People are not like a dress that you can take off. Love is not a habit that you can simply release, is it?

Well, sometimes it is.

We believe that friends are forever. This is not true. Love may be forever, but a friend may not. The love you have for a person, if it is true, if it has to do with their Essence, is eternal.

But what happens when that person herself does not honor her own Essence? Can you love her for the beauty of her soul when she is betraying that soul trying to control and manipulate others? When he is dishonoring that soul by being unfaithful or by being insensitive to others?

My answer is this. Love them, but leave them.

If you do not release these people in a good way, out of love, when there is still the possibility of simply moving away gently ~you may come to the point of a serious clash. Then you will have to leave in the middle of a fight or in a bitter way.

When someone you love is toxic to you, you need to release this person as an act of love for yourself and for him or her.

By toxic, I do not mean that they are finding it difficult to deal with your change. That’s normal. I don’t mean that they “make you” feel this or that way. No one “makes” you feel. That is giving your power away. If this is the case, assume the responsibility for your feelings, attitudes and responses.

What I mean by toxic is that they are not willing to respect your limits. Toxic to you are friends who repeatedly dishonor or betray you. Toxic are friends who play mind games. Toxic are people who are unwilling or unable to see how their acts affect others, how they are affecting you. Toxic people are blamers. They always have an excuse and a finger pointing somewhere else. There is no way that you can come to terms with people like that. You will be trying forever. Toxic are those who take, but do not receive. Toxic are those who take, but do not give.

Toxic people take you for granted. Their actions (and sometimes even their words) consistently reveal that they not value you. They put you down with words or actions. They make you invisible. They refuse to name the beauty and love you bring into their lives.

Toxic friends trample on your faith and speak only cynical words that take away all the magic and goodness in life.

Toxic friends may be charmers, but they cannot commit to love, to you or to their own words. These toxic friends do not know what they want. They keep asking for your help, only to drop the entire project the minute you committed your contacts or time to their support. You end up exhausted and your reputation is damaged with these toxic friends.

Toxic are people who begin a full-fledge war against your happiness, who do everything they can to bring you back to a place of suffering, so that you stay with them in their misery.

Toxic clients are those who keep asking for more and take everything, but do not RECEIVE it. Because they are not allowing the love in what you give to touch them, they do not FEEL the value of it. As a result, they always want more and nothing is enough. They do not value the gifts because in their emotional world, they have not let the gift in.

They do not trust or value your expertise. Because they do not value themselves, they distrust the value of anyone associated with them. Once they hire you, they do not value you. They will ask for others’ opinions and act on those opinions, even if these other people are not experts. They will not follow your counsel and when their actions lead them to failure, they will fail to see that it was not your counsel, but their stupidity that lead them to that end.

Toxic clients haggle about the price of your service. They pay late and come up with excuses. They do not do their work and then complain that your service is not working. They give you the materials late and procrastinate, so that you cannot fulfill your contract with them. Then they come back after the contract date is over and want you to be their time slave and keep on working for them.

It is hard to understand how saying goodbye can be an act of love. But if your love for another is betraying your love for yourself, then it will soon become poison, not love. The only loving thing to do is leave.

Most of us hold on to toxic love because we are afraid to be alone. We are afraid to be rejected. We are afraid to go out into a world full of strangers. Will we make new friends? Will they love us? So we stay in toxic relationships.

If you are facing such a relationship now, use the descriptions in this blog to evaluate it. Is this friend or client toxic? Is your love or loyalty for this person running against your loyalty and love for yourself?

If the answer is yes, love them, but leave them.

No one deserves that you betray your soul, your happiness and your potential. No one deserves that you go back to your old world, becoming a ghost just for them. That option is not love. It is not love for them. And it is certainly not love for yourself.

Maria Mar(c)

Maria Mar is the Dream Alchemist, an inspirational poet, speaker, coach, author and spiritual teacher who helps women create the life of their dreams. Visit her at: Catch the Dream Express!

Let Go, and Let God!

Thanks again Maria Mar, for the loving nudge in the right direction.

Do you need some love and support that might help you to take action in a positive direction?

Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP

The Life Breath Coach

Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds Joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Can You Change Your Life With Love, and How Can the Total Eclipse of the Sun Help You Do That?

July 21, 2009Mind Setcarrie tucker, heart failure solutions, love, technorati, Total Eclipse of the SunCarrie Tucker

The New Moon today, the 21^st of July, will create a Total Eclipse of the Sun.

Even though it will only be visible in the Northwestern United States, Alaska and Hawaii, eastern India, Shanghai, Southeastern Asia and Northeastern Oceania, it will have a profound effect on all of humanity.

Peace on earth is more likely right now than ever before!

Do you believe that the alignment of the stars makes people a bit crazy from time to time?

I for one feel unusual astrological influences, usually BEFORE my astrologer friends share the sky news with me.

Well the sky news is pretty huge this month!

As well as the Total Eclipse, we are also experiencing 2 lunar eclipses in early July and early August that increase the effects of the Total Eclipse of the Sun.

The Moon is much smaller than the Sun, but when it passes directly in front of the Sun, its’ magnetic energy is so powerful that it blocks the light of the Sun from the Earth by absorbing the light.

If you have done much reading around here, you know that the fuel you burn is electricity, and your emotions are magnetic.

My astrologer friends have been educating me that the Sun is electric energy and is masculine.

The Moon is magnetic energy and is feminine.

(Let me qualify that by saying that the only Astrologers I consult with are very spiritual people. Heck, for that matter every professional that I rely on is a highly spiritual person. I trust only those spilling love into the world. It’s a policy that has served me well.)

During a Total Eclipse there is a fusion of energy that occurs between the Sun and the Moon.

This has huge implications for the inhabitants of Earth, because you receive messages from God through your intuition when you can marry the feminine and masculine aspects of your being.

Humor me for a minute here, I’m not trying to get all woo woo on ya!

The fuel that drives you is masculine.

Your emotions which give you direction in your life are feminine.

It is not hard to imagine that the union of these 2 aspects will give you peace.

By uniting these two aspects of your being you are actually creating a devign union with all of life.

Continue reading Can You Change Your Life With Love, and How Can the Total Eclipse of the Sun Help You Do That? →

Are There Symptoms of Depression In Your Community?

July 8, 2009Social Connectioncarrie tucker, Fireworks, Fourth of July, heart failure solutions, holidays, Kiss Me Kate, Non-profit organization, symptoms of depression, technoratiCarrie Tucker

Hump day already!?

Did the fireworks over the weekend launch you into the week?

I seem to have found myself at Wednesday, wondering how I got here. It’s been a GREAT week so far!

How was your 4^th of July holiday?

I really wanted to go down the mountain to the canoe races and old car show on the beach myself. Many of my friends were going, and invited me to come along.

Every year there is a parade in Volcano Village.

Every year for the past 7 years my family has attended the parade.

You could say I was feeling a seven year itch.

I decided to ignore the itch and turn down my friend’s kind invitations, because my daughters, Briana almost 16 and Makayla almost 13, were marching in the parade and singing afterwards at the Community Center with the cast of their Summer Musical. (They both have birthdays this month!)

The parade is usually very big with lots of attendance, and has been getting bigger and bigger in the past few years.

As I headed up the mountain on the fourth, the sky was clear and the weather was beautiful. Volcano Village is breath taking in the morning!

This year, the parade turn out was pretty small, but we still had some pretty cool old cars, and all the community organizations from the village were represented.

Everyone was having a really great time visiting, eating and laughing at the Community Center after the parade. There was such a strong sense of community in the air.

I have been too busy this year to watch any rehearsals, so when my daughters sang some of Kiss Me Kate with their friends and cast mates it was the first time I had heard it. They were great!

Opening night is Friday! It should be fun!

With no crowd to fight, I shared a bit of every tasty food I could find with my 3 kids. We thoroughly enjoyed the variety and washed it all down with plenty of watermelon!

I even found some time to chat with old friends I don’t get to see much!

The icing on the cake was watching shy timid Briana get drug onto the dance floor by a jitterbugging wild man! The entertainment value was priceless! Brina is a quick study!

Later she said she was glad her girlfriend pushed her out there. She loves to dance, and “that was a ball!”.

There were quite a few beautiful hours of sunshine before our traditional trip to the fireworks show in Hilo Town. My little 4 year old, Nickolas, took advantage and played his little heart out. What a joy to watch a young one completely engaged in play.

It wasn’t surprising that Nick was sound asleep by the time we reached the waterfront. I dropped my girls off to meet their friends, and continued on down Kamehemeha Avenue.

The crowd was thick so I had to travel quite a distance before I finally found a place that I could park and see the fireworks with my little one sleeping peacefully in the back seat. I was shocked that the open space was right next to the band stand and a large band was playing patriotic music.

An evening rain had thoroughly drenched Hilo by the time we arrived, but the sky cleared up just as the fireworks began.

I crawled out my window and sat on the roof of my van. The colorful lights were a captivating show and the band was providing the perfect background music.

I thought of my beautiful daughters, sitting on the beach directly under the entertainment that the whole city was watching. I pictured their smiling faces and saw them laughing with their friends.

For just a few minutes, I felt so connected to all the souls watching the sky.

Abruptly the music ended.

“Da ta da da da. Happy 4^th of July Everybody!”

The beautiful display in the sky continued but the band packed up their horns and called it a day.

The car next to me turned on some nice local music and we continued to enjoy the show, until they had to start their car and move because the band was leaving and he was blocking their path.

As I sat in silence staring at the sky, rain began sprinkling down. I crawled back in my window and watched the fireworks through the steady stream of traffic caused by the exiting band members who never even turned toward the beautiful display in the sky. It was wasted on them.

The contrast kinda suffocated me. Just a few moments earlier, I felt every heart beat in every soul sharing the celebration in the sky with me, and now I felt like a lonely soldier in battle.

As the rockets red glare, and the bombs bursting in air continued, I felt my spirits fall. I glanced over my shoulder at my sleeping angel, and a slow smile came to my face.

I closed my eyes and felt the peace of a sleeping baby. I felt my connection to every other soul on the planet. Love filled my heart and overflowed.

When everyone around you is throwing in the towel, you can still find love in your heart!

Have you checked out of life? Do you call it a day before you have celebrated your successes?

Symptoms of Depression may be no more than subtle signs of disconnect.

Get in the game, before it is too late!

Heart Math can teach you how to hold the love in your heart. It is a powerful tool that helps you manage the stress of today’s world.

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Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP

The Life Breath Club

Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds Joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Why Can’t You Sleep?

June 28, 2009Sleepcant sleep, carrie tucker, Dietary supplement, health, heart failure solutions, Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize, technorati, TelevisionCarrie Tucker

Do you find yourself awake in the middle of the night unable to sleep?

What do you do when you can’t sleep?

Read?

Drink warm milk?

Watch television?

Claudia takes advantage of the time she can’t sleep, to do things like paint her living room! During the day she is so tired she often worries that she will fall asleep while doing the shopping or driving her mother to her many doctors appointments.

When Claudia tries to help her daughter, Cassie, with her homework she is so fatigued that the cob webs are too thick to think! Cassie is on her own.

She was in tears the other day when we had lunch because Cassie’s grades are sliding and her mom’s bed sore is getting worse, since she’s been too exhausted to keep up with the frequent repositioning suggested by the nurse.

“What am I supposed to do?! Why can’t I sleep?” Claudia sobbed.

Why Can’t You Sleep?

If you are sedentary you can expect to have difficulty sleeping.
Overuse of technology is a great way to cause sleeplessness.
Eating empty calories interferes with sleep in several ways.
Your chaotic bedroom will definitely contribute to sleeplessness and poor quality sleep.
Your breathing can make you sick AND drastically effect the quality of your sleep.

Claudia didn’t think any of these issues were her problem. Nothing she tried seemed to help.

Though she admitted that she, “just didn’t get the breathing aspect and what that had to do with it.”

I challenged Claudia to show up each week for The Life Breath Club’s 60 minute discussion of breath awareness and get serious about her Personal Sacred Breathing Program.

Claudia didn’t think that she was sick, so she didn’t think the information applied to her for a few weeks, but she kept coming.

One week, Claudia heard something on the call about emotional processing.

“That was a light bulb moment,” she admitted later.

“I see that it is hard to allow the emotions I feel watching my mother suffer.”

“I see that I feel guilty for feeling burdened with her care.”

“I see that my depression is effecting my ability to mother my daughter and I want to do something about it.”

Claudia’s light bulb moment helped her to see that natural cures for insomnia weren’t working because she was too depressed to consistently apply any of the action steps to implement them!

Just becoming aware of the emotions she was stuffing helped Claudia to stop holding her breath and breathe through all the challenges that normally caused her to self sabotage.

What Can You Do To Get More Sleep?

Find a way to be active everyday.
Soak in a warm epsom salt bath for 20 minutes before climbing in bed.
Make whole organic fruits and vegetables a large percentage of your diet and/OR supplement.
Create a clean organized sleep space and seek stillness daily.
Find out how your breathing is making you sick and do something about it.

Claudia says that joining The Life Breath Club was the first step in recognizing her suppressed emotion.

“I use to wake up at 2am and curse at the clock, now I turn my attention to my Sacred Breath.”

For Claudia, the change came when she accepted night time waking as the perfect time to feel those difficult feelings she couldn’t allow during the day.

“The magic happens after I allow my feelings and maybe cry a bit. I sleep like a baby for blissful chunks of time. I will repay my sleep debt with pleasant naps. I’m glad I know that now.”

Your magic sleep will happen when you prioritize it.

All of the suggestions above may seem just too simple.

You will find that simple change will make a measurable difference in your sleep debt!

Go back to bed!

Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP

The Life Breath Coach

Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter