Add Zip to Your Water

We all know how important it is to drink lots and lots of water, but some of us find plain water a bit boring. Instead of turning to drinks that are loaded with sugar, sweeteners, artificial flavors, or like soda pop are carbonated, try giving your water a little zip with E.O.B.B.D. Certified Lemon Essential Oil. Add a drop or two of lemon oil to a bottle of water.

Not only does the lemon add a bit of zip to make your water taste great, it also has many health benefits:

• It purifies the water
• It purifies your liver
• It purifies your blood
• It stimulates the immune system (it stimulates your white blood cells)
• It is beneficial to people struggling with weight gain, obesity or cellulite

What a great way to enjoy water and stay healthy!

NOTE: Ingesting essential oils can be dangerous! Please, please, please ONLY use E.O.B.B.D certified essential oils. All Ancient Legacy oils are E.O.B.B.D. certified, which is why they are the only essential oils I trust or recommend using in the ways I described above. To read more about why E.O.B.B.D certification is so important, click here.

A Healthy Gut = A Healthy You

Did you know that 85% of your immunity is in your gut? Your digestive system is the first line of defense, but most of us have a very week digestive system due to prescription drugs (antibiotics, etc.), a bad diet, or something as simple as depletion of your good bacteria/enzymes as you get older. It is highly recommended that you do a Flora Program before you start a nutritional program so that you are able to absorb all the great nutrition with which you will be pampering your body. Plus, since your gut is your first line of defense against all sorts of illnesses, this Flora program is vital in keeping you healthy.

Flora program -- flood your system with ProBiotics:

• Take 8 capsules of Ultimate Flora Fx or ProJoba ProBacillus Plus every morning on empty stomach, 1 hour before you eat.
• In the evening take 4 capsules of Nightly Essence before bed, 2 hours after you eat and 1 hour after you drink anything.
• Do this for 5 days
• After 5 days cut the dosage down to 4 capsules of Ultimate Flora Fx or ProJoba ProBacillus Plus in the morning and 2 capsules of Nightly Essence at night.
• Do this for another 5 days.

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE TOO MANY PROBIOTICS!

For children:

• Cut dosage.
• For babies and children who have difficulty swallowing pills, open capsules into a bit of plain yogurt for them to eat.

Now your digestive sytem can fend off illness, and you are able to absorb nutrients much more efficiently, keeping you HEALTHY! You are off to a good start in digestive health!

Using Essential Oils in the Laundry

Add 20 – 24 drops of Tea Tree Oil to washing machine to disinfect laundry (I have a front loader which uses less water, so I use 10-15 drops of oil). This is especially great to use when washing clothing or bedding from someone who has been sick. I use it when washing my cloth diapers. They come out smelling nice and fresh and I can be confident that they have been disinfected without chemicals that harm the baby and shorten the life of the diaper.

I also LOVE using the Deep Cleanser Essential Oil in the laundry instead of the Tea Tree oil. It's a powerful antiseptic and smells lovely. When I add just 5-10 drops of this oil to my diapers they come out smelling fresh. Deep Cleanser is a wonderful mixture of Sage, Ocean Pine, Lemongrass, Juniper Berry, Cypress, Frankincense and other pure essential oils. It's antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, non-toxic, and safe to use around children and pets.

If you use a dryer to dry your clothes, you can also add a few drops of your favorite oil to a facecloth and sick it in the dryer with wet laundry for a nice fragrance.

Tea Tree Essential Oil for Sore Throat or Cough

The “Tea Tree Lick”: Just put a drop of the oil on your little finger (the finger which is least likely to be rubbed in your eyes) and suck it off. Do this every 5-10 minutes until your sore throat is gone. This works best when done at the first sign of sore throat.

Tea Tree oil doesn't taste as bad as one would think, but if you are someone who can't stand the taste, try sticking your finger as far back in your mouth as possible where your taste buds are less sensitive to the taste. My 7 and 5 year old will ask for a "Tea Tree Lick" when they have a sore throat. If they can put up with the taste then so can you. :) It really works and is worth doing to avoid getting a severe sore throat or cough. Using E.O.B.B.D. certified Tea Tree Essential oil in a "Tea Tree Lick" is safe and without any unwanted, harmful side effects.

Note: Ingesting essential oils can be dangerous! Please, please, please ONLY use E.O.B.B.D certified essential oils in a "Tea Tree Lick". Other oils which do not have this certification can be adulterated with harmful fillers and can even be toxic. Most essential oils have a warning on the bottle not to ingest them. Only E.O.B.B.D certified Tea Tree oil is safe to be used in a "Tea Tree Lick".

All Ancient Legacy oils are E.O.B.B.D. certified, which is why they are the only essential oils I would trust or recommend using in the ways I described above. To read more about why E.O.B.B.D certification is so important, click here.

Adicted to Doctors

I've noticed that some people run to the doctor way too hastily...even for the littlest things. I think it is WAY over done by the majority of people and I noticed it mostly with parents of young children. Fear is what drives them there. Their child spikes a temp and off they run because they are unsure of how to help them. They rely on doctor visits and prescriptions when treating their children.

When I was sick as a child my mom would say: "Well, let's see! Your grandma used to do this..." Or "Your great-grandma always said that...!" And then she would get out whatever "old time" remedy would come to her and before I knew it I was better. It was very rare for her to drag me out of my warm bed to take me to a doctor's office full of germs.

The common belief is that one needs a synthetic drug to be relived of symptoms or to be cured - the "old remedies" do not work. Sadly, this belief can result in many complications. Drugs have unwanted side effects and reactions that can harm the body and sometimes even be deadly. Have you noticed TV commercials for synthetic drugs these days? The last part of the commercial in which they list all the possible side-effects takes longer to do than promoting the drug itself!

Don't get me wrong. Drugs do have their place and sometime are even life-saving, but for the most part you can take care of illnesses naturally. Our moms, grandmas, and great-grandmas were more knowledgeable in natural healing then our generation is today.

I've learned so much from Dr Wallach and the information that Youngevity has available to us to utilize. I no longer drag my 8 month old baby to the emergency room at 3 am just because he has a temp (yes, I did that with my first born...I was terrified - he was fine by the time I arrived at the ER!!!). I have become very confident in the natural remedies that I have learned about and use often. Now when my children are sick I'm able to stay calm and can asses the situation appropriately. I use the appropriate essential oils, supplements, and remedies, tuck them into their beds and before I know it all is well. The key is to know when a doctors visit is absolutely necessary. Most of the time, at least in my experience, a doctor is not needed.

And the ultimate cure? A cuddle from Mom!

Happy Mother's Day!

Tea Tree Essential Oil (Melaleuca Alternifolia) for Warts

If you are just learning how to use essential oils, Tea Tree is a good one to start with. It has so many great qualities....simple, every day ones at that. It's been called medicine chest in a bottle.
My most recent success with Tea Tree oil is that I banished a wart on my son's finger. No pain, no side-effects, no chemicals, no doctor's visit, and all with minimal effort.
Here is how I did it: Apply one drop of Tea Tree to a plaster (it's less messy that way than if you were to apply it to the wart directly), and then "stick it" to the wart! We did this twice a day, once in the morning and once before bed. One week later, and good-bye wart!!
I found it worked best when he managed to keep the bandage on all day and all night to give the oil maximum time to do it's deed.
NOTE: All Ancient Legacy oils are E.O.B.B.D. certified, which is why they are the only essential oils I would trust or recommend using in the ways I described above. To read more about why E.O.B.B.D certification is so important, click here.

The Power of Pure Pollen...As Nature Intended

I am leery of all these 'synthetic' concoctions which do more harm
than good in the long run. Yet not all energy-boosting products are
the same. My husband and I discovered an all-natural product which really works in giving you a dramatic increase in energy which lasts for hours, does not bring that consequent late morning "let down" that a high-in-caffeine drink brings, and above all, is healthy and beneficial for the body.

If you try anything, try taking this product:

Pollen Burst by ProJoba, one of the product lines from the health company "Youngevity", is an Energy Drink like no other. It gives you ALL day energy, relieves mental and physical stress, relieves pain and soreness, gives you mental alertness, decreases cravings, promotes weight loss, relieves allergies, works great as a flu remedy, and the list goes on.

Do NOT confuse this with other energy drinks on the market! This does not have a lot of caffeine and it does not have a lot of sugar. It only has the caffeine equivalent of 1 cup of green tea (which is a more gentle caffeine to begin with) and it only has the sugar equivalent of ½ cup of orange juice. It is free of artificial colors and preservatives – it’s 100% natural! Don't let the product's name mislead you--Pollen Burst is not made with bee pollen, which is contaminated with molds, spores, and bacteria. Rather, it is made from harvested organic flower pollen extracts. The allergic husk of the pollen is removed and only the hypoallergenic, unadulterated Neo-Nutrient core is used which contains over 180 micronutrients – it’s a whole food matrix. These micronutrients are quickly absorbed and help your body work at its optimum level, therefore it sustains your energy level throughout the day.

Pollen Burst also contains Green Tea Extracts, B Vitamins, and SOD (Superoxide Dismutase). SOD is an antioxidant made by your body, it’s your body’s first line of defense and the most powerful, effective antioxidant in the world today. This is the first SOD in drink form. Read more about the science behind Pollen Burst at www.burstscience.com, and find out how these claims that Pollen Burst makes are backed up with scientific data and double blind studies.

At a cost considerably less than a cup of Starbucks, my husband has traded in his morning cup of coffee (which he was addicted to) for a Pollen Burst. In addition to the extra energy and alertness it gives, it also has aided him in his weight loss due to it's appetite-curbing and metabolism-boosting properties, enabling him to steadily lose 20 pounds in just 8 weeks! Since our seven year old puts half a pouch in his water bottle he takes to school with him we have noticed that he is able to focus better on his school work. I also take it (of course) and love everything about it. I love the way it tastes, the way it makes me feel, the extra energy I have throughout my day, and definitely how it aided me in getting over the flu this winter (who has time to be sick?).