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Dear Subscribers, Happy Autumn to you. This is now time for harvesting our efforts from recent work and preparing for a bit more cold and longer nights, and of course the New Year of 2006. There’s nothing like getting prepared early, as with Preventive Medicine, living healthfully now to protect your health later. Changes are coming, as always, and hopefully we won’t have any more natural cataclysms like Hurricane Katrina, which are intense forced change for many. Our hearts go out for that devastation. Yet, we know there are always crises of some kind. Everything changes and Nature surely wields her force, which makes us humans seem so small, even helpless, at times. School is back and work is enhanced with greater focus. Answering the many demands of modern-day life with a more consistent routine is required. Create a list of your goals and projects to work on and complete by year’s end. Mine are for safe travel, continued detox and light eating, and refurbishing my office. You will also want to make some space for rest & relaxation and more time to play and get out in Nature. Stress reduction practices and making time for meditation is crucial for handling high-demand living, as well as stretching and breathing. That’s so important for balance and healing. Exercise is also crucial as it supports our immune and mental health, circulates nutrients and the lymph, helps eliminate toxins, and gives us greater vitality. The early Autumn is often the most beautiful time around the world for weather and Nature. So, if you are traveling, as I will be when you receive this news, it’s a great time for that. Greetings from three locations This newsletter includes some of my Staying Healthy in Autumn Tips plus a short excerpt from the Autumn section of my first book, Staying Healthy with the Seasons (21st Century Edition). Also, check out my website, www.elsonhaas.com, for more Health Tips and Articles. All seasons have their time and energies and it is in our best interest to embrace what they have to offer. Take care of yourself and Stay Healthy. Dr. Elson
I recently returned from speaking at Nature’s Sunshine’s national conference in Salt Lake City. It was a great event and my presentation on Detoxification and Integrated Medicine was very well received. Nature’s Sunshine is a long established company with many hundreds of quality nutritional and herbal products, and the many distributors involved are from all over the country and from many walks of life. Plus, there was an entire Hispanic program going on along side of the English presentation. Overall, my books and I felt a lot of love. A quote from Curtis Hoehne, Manager of Events, Nature’s Sunshine Products: Upcoming Travels—Healing at Grail Springs and then to the Tetons. Then, from this intense visit (there is so-so much to do at the Expo where every company literally in the health food industry is present with their latest products, plus seeing hundreds of people I know from being in this field for 25 years, where I have seen immense growth and great service to our nation’s health. Well, it will be good to fly to Toronto, a very cool international city and then be scurried by Madeleine, the owner of Grail Springs Spa From Grail Springs, back to the USA to the beautiful Grand Tetons and Yellowstone area of Jackson Hole, Wyoming for hiking and seeing the sights/sites and speaking at the Teton Wellness festival (www.tetonwellness.org). I have to say, this is one of the most balanced and fun trips I have done in years. Will tell you more about it in my next news, and hope to see some of you along the way. For specifics on these trips, please review the Appearances page on my website, www.elsonhaas.com. Farewell Dr. Kristal—my good friend, pioneering dentist and one of the first to speak out against mercury/amalgam fillings in challenging the ADA (American Dental Association)—just passed away in August at the age of 80. He was so vital and loving and is cherished by many. After 40 years of dentistry (Dr Hal Kristal removed all my amalgam fillings in the 1980s) he retired and changed his career into his own designed “metabolic nutrition” with blood pH and body typing. See www.bloodph.com Preventive Medical Center of Marin (PMCM) News—Autumn Detox PMCM is seeking some entrepreneurial, energetic and visionary, yet practical practitioners/physicians to make some new things happen with the expansion of Integrated Medicine in our Northern Bay Area neighborhood. Let us know if you know anyone suited to be trained/guided by me, Dr. Elson Haas, so that I can travel and teach more in the future. See my website in October for more details about this opportunity.
The first is by my friends and associates, Drs. Richard and Karilee Shames, with their new work, FEELING FAT, FUZZY OR FRAZZLED, which offers a 3-step program to balance thyroid, adrenal, and sex hormones. See www.feelingfff.com.
High Energy Banana Shake (Serves 1)
Use organic ingredients as possible.
Following the brilliant sunshine of summer allowing Nature to flourish, we turn to the garden and harvest our vegetables, the fresh rewards from the efforts we can choose to embrace. The garden image may apply to whatever projects we have begun; if we continue to put energy into them, they grow and we prosper in that we are rewarded for our efforts. This relates to plants, children, relationships, work, and each of us. When we do not continue to nourish these areas, they may fail to thrive.
The exercise in autumn and winter may be more internal and inside, away from the colder weather. We must be multi-faceted in our activity approach such that we can rotate exercises and be adaptable to the changing climate. After all, we can’t just be fair weather exercisers. Even if we don’t like going to gyms or fitness centers, we may have some weights at home, an aerobic machine, and some tapes/CDs to work out to. An hour a day is little to ask for the benefit you will get from exercise, and the autumn is a good time to refocus your attention to this effort. If you already have an exercise program, you can increase your activities, your goals, and well being by being active in the autumn season.
Take care and Enjoy!
Questions for reflection: How healthy is your doctor or health care practitioner?
I just had my first colonoscopy with healthy results. I braved it by doing it without any sedation, much like I have done drug-free dental care for 30 years now. I say it’s merely a matter of mind over matter and considering any pains as energy and working with them to move them through. And I just relax as best I can and let the energy (the dental drill or the small colonoscopy tube) pass right through me. Then, when the work is done, it’s done, without the lingering effects. Getting past the fear of pain may be the first step for many.
In case of local emergencies or natural disasters, here are some ideas for what we all may need. This could obviously fill a whole book (especially when we think of various locales and natural events), yet I wanted to start you thinking and giving some tips for preparedness in case or when some local disaster/problem affects you and your family and neighborhood.
Stay Healthy and be prepared. Dr. Elson
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in the sharing of health education constellation — Washington DC; Canada’s premier Detox spa, Grail Springs north of Toronto; and Wyoming at the Teton Wellness Festival.
“It was truly a pleasure to have you participate in our national convention in Salt Lake City. Your presentation on Detoxification to our general session was very well received. Our distributors are a tough audience and you won them over with your easy manner and in-depth knowledge of cleansing. We highly recommend you to any group that may be thinking of having you address them. I am confident they will be happy with your presentations.”
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for more info about Hal’s work. The good doctor always left work at 2:45pm to play tennis with his 30 year tennis partner, John, and I played with them both many times over the years. I know Dr. Kristal’s family and met many more of them at his memorial service in Point Richmond.
The NEW Detox Diet is doing quite well as people are appreciating the enhanced edition and all the recipes. A couple who I am working with just normalized their blood pressures and both let go of unneeded weight doing the Smoothie Cleanse. They also claimed the smoothies were really tasty! Here’s an example:
Bananas provide electrolytes and easily absorbed calories to boost energy.
The foundation and fortification with our foods and diet is an important focus now. Again, this is Harvest time and there are a great many foods—apples and walnuts, sunflower seeds, zucchini and other squash, cabbages, peppers and tomatoes, plus many grains and beans. Learn some new recipes (see my book A Cookbook for All Seasons for recipe inspiration) and enjoy good foods. Most of us need more protein and heat generating foods in the colder months, even the energizing spicy peppers such as cayenne and chilis. This will keep our blood and energy moving. Detoxification is the word for September. Doing an effective Detox Diet or avoiding sugar, wheat and dairy for a couple weeks is often quite revealing and helps us to feel better—lighter and more youthful with greater energy.
Nutritional supplements are often useful this time of year. Many of my patients add some nutrients that support immune function so as not to pick up “what’s going around.” Taking some echinacea now is helpful as is the Chinese herb, astragalus. Maintaining daily vitamins C and E along with selenium and zinc is also immune protective and clears our body of certain toxins. Roots are helpful at tonifying our body at this time. Ginseng is quite good for building strength and endurance. Burdock root is good for the skin. See the Autumn section of Staying Healthy with the Seasons for further information.
Take a rest early in this season because the demanding holiday times are just around the corner. Don’t burn your batteries out before January. Kindle your inner flame and firepower, which is protective from the invasion of harsh climates and germs. The Winter blues comes partly from a loss of this fire energy. Shifting and balancing with the Seasons is vital to Staying Healthy.
The autumn is associated with the Metal (Air) element in the Chinese system. The organs ruled by this element are the lungs and large intestine as well as the functions of breath and elimination. Learning to breath to both energize and relax us is a valuable asset to develop, or to re-learn. Diet and exercise are very important to keep our lungs open and our digestion working. Proper fiber intake is vital to maintain a healthy fuel and cleansing to our intestines and to provide fuel for the body. So our diet can change by eliminating refined foods, black tea, coffee, and alcohol, and by cutting down on animal fats, particularly red meats, dairy fats, and other excessively fatty foods, which are all constipating. Lack of good bowel function brings stagnation and feeling stuck and held back in life, and this allows us to get congested and sick more easily.
From a dietary point, enjoy some fresh corn and baked squashes, as in the hard varieties, like acorn squash, spaghetti squash, or some butternut (see recipe for Butternut Bisque in A Cookbook for All Seasons). This, along with whole grains and raw, organic nuts and seeds, sprouted legumes, and our daily greens can carry us through autumn into winter in good health. Yet, while it’s still warmer, do some Detox program before it gets too late in the season. Our body likes to lighten and refine itself before the colder climate and the extra heat/fuel we need to Stay Healthy in the colder climate.
I have been recommending colonoscopies to patients for gaining knowledge about colon tissue health and for picking any problems, especially pre-cancerous polyps, which makes this test actually more prevention oriented than most others. When we find and remove those polyps at the earlier stages, we actually prevent getting colon cancer. The first line of prevention is obviously eating well and keeping our bodies clean and current.
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