The “H” word, aka hormone, gets a bad wrap. It’s infamy as the number one cause for teenage antics and new moms feeling a flood of emotions has made a lot of people use the word in a negative way. However, these chemical messengers of our bodies can actually work more in our favor as opposed to against us. Especially, when it comes to losing weight.

One fat-burning, gland-produced chemical in particular is called adiponectin. We like to call it the “Skinny Hormone” because new research has been revealed to prove that it may be the missing link for anyone who struggles to lose weight. This collagen-like protein signals the body to use fat as energy to power the body, aka burning the fat. Yet the problem is that for anyone who isn’t already lean, adiponectin isn’t frequently produced. So, if you have a few extra pounds, this “Skinny Hormone” isn’t converting stored fat into glucose to fuel your cells.

The good news though is that there is a way you can up production, no matter what your weight is! Since the hormone regulates metabolism and glucose levels, a study has shown that 20 grams of Rice Bran a day increases adiponectin levels for larger body types.

This is fantastic news for Purium, considering that the combination of our Power Shake Apple-Berry and Daily Fiber provides the 20 grams of Rice Bran to increase the production of adiponectin.

Here are some more facts about this “Skinny Hormone”:

• Discovered in 1995
• May improve heart disease and metabolic disorders
• May boost metabolism without affecting appetite
• May reduces blood glucose levels and glucose production in the liver
• May increase the uptake of nutrients into muscles, while limiting the uptake into fat tissue
• May increase FFA release from fat cells, while increasing it’s burning in muscular tissue
• May increase number of mitochondria and their efficiency to energize cells

Ever wonder how the Egyptians built those gigantic pyramids without modern machinery? Though we may never know that answer, we do know that Kamut seeds existed during that ancient time.

While Kamut is still around today, it has been lost in the overflow of processed foods and convenient menus (no wonder we’re not building any gigantic monuments with our bare hands).

Plus, let’s be real – the word “Kamut” may sound unfriendly or even unappetizing.

Regardless, these are silly reasons to close the door on the MANY benefits of Kamut.

Originated by David Sandoval in 1993, Organic Kamut Blend was Purium’s first product and has become recognized as one of the finest wheatgrasses on the market. Not to mention, it’s extra convenient for those on the-go!

Why Kamut?

Independent research shows that Organic Kamut Blend contains more powerful antioxidants and nutrients, gram per gram, than other green drinks on the market. Grown in organic soil, Kamut Wheatgrass absorbs 92 of the known 102 minerals from the soil.

All these potent elements are digested in minutes and work together to lightly cleanse the body, promote cell regeneration, increase energy, combat fatigue, raise alkaline and lower acidity while providing the enormous amount of green leafy vegetable nutrients required daily.

The benefits are staggering:

• Chlorophyll
  • Oxygenates
  • Cleanses
  • Heals
  • Delivers nutrients to cells
  • Helps eliminate toxins from the intestines and other tissues.
  • Aids in reducing bad breath
  • Acts as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory
  • Purifies liver
  • Improves blood sugar problems
  • Increases the function of the heart
  • Affects the vascular system, the intestines, the uterus, and the lungs.
• Vitamins
• Trace Minerals
  • Magnesium
  • Potassium
  • Chromium
• Protein Completing Factors
• Key Enzymes
• Anti-oxidants
• Raises alkaline and lowers acidity body levels
• Natural flora to help with gas and regularity


• And wait, there’s more.


• Wheatgrass juice is also an excellent skin cleanser. If you’re looking to cleanse and rejuvenate the outer part of your body, pour the green stuff over your body in a tub of warm water and soak for 15 to 20 minutes and rinse with cold water.

    So...Are you getting your 8-10 servings of organic fruits and veggies?
     If not, then I highly recommend adding our Kamut wheatgrass blend to your diet.
     You can thank me later for how good you look and feel!

North America seems to mainly be made up of a continent full of people rushing through their busy lives…rushing to work, rushing to their kids’ sporting events, rushing to dinner. We want everything faster, easier, and more convenient and that is how we eat; packed up, taken To Go and eaten in the car on the way to some obligation.

We have extended bellies but we are never satisfied. We have “low-fat” and “non-fat,” and “diet” this and that, but we are getting fatter. Diabetes has been growing exponentially in the past two decades. Our nation as a whole is getting sicker and sicker. And through it all, we are consuming far more sugar than we may even imagine through our exponentially growing consumption of overly processed foods.

A recent study performed by researchers from the University of São Paulo and Tufts University showed that a whopping 57.9% of people’s calorie intake and 90% of the added sugar we consume comes from ultra-processed foods! Another 12.3% came from processed foods (not ultra-processed) and processed culinary ingredients. That means less than 30% comes from unprocessed foods! So it isn’t too far off to say that 70% of what we eat on a daily basis is junk food. This also means that for every person eating just 50% processed food there is another person eating 90% processed food.

From an Atlantic article on this study: “Processed” is not inherently an evil word. According to the Food and Drug Administration, the only time a food can be called fresh is when you’ve just ripped it out of the ground or off a tree and shoved it in your mouth. (Ok, you’re allowed to wash it, coat it, and use pesticides, too.) So bread, even the whole-wheat kind with the weird seeds in it, The researchers…defined “ultra-processed” as: Formulations of several ingredients which, besides salt, sugar, oils, and fats, include food substances not used in culinary preparations, in particular, flavors, colors, sweeteners, emulsifiers and other additives used to imitate sensorial qualities of unprocessed or minimally processed foods and their culinary preparations or to disguise undesirable qualities of the final product.

Meaning we are eating foods that we could never create in our home kitchens. Foods that flavor scientists have worked hard on to fool our brains. So-called foods that started out as “fresh” but after a long process became unidentifiable to how they existed in nature. “Much of the problem, they say, is that the ultra-processed sugar bombs are replacing “more nutrient-dense foods,” and leaving people “simultaneously overfed and undernourished.”

How can we be overfed yet undernourished? Because we are eating empty foods that fill our bellies momentarily but then leave us wanting more and more. We are only fooling our brains. We are putting so many foreign chemicals into our bodies that they are confused and becoming sick. Do you think that these people make these choices because they want to become obese, or don’t understand that Diabetes is dangerous? That they are just not smart? No, they do it for convenience.

They do it because they are pressed for time and their kids have to eat. They do it because it is marketedas safe and time-saving and the same as any other food. They do it because they don’t think they haveanother reasonable choice.

 What does this all tell us? That it has never been more apparent that the time for a Real Food Revolution is here and now. So how do we get there? Be a shining light for pure, premium whole foods and herbs. Not a nagging, condescending, hurts-your- eyeballs light but a gentle, kind light that illuminates what we CAN do to make the Real Food Revolution a reality. Find ways you can lead by example, spread the word. Most people just don’t know what they don’t know. We can take our power back.

Grow your own food (indoor and outdoor gardens in small spaces can still have great yields), shop at Farmer’s Markets when you can, support natural grocery stores, and try to opt for foods with the cleanest, least processed ingredients as often as you can. Cook at home so you can control the ingredients and avoid added sugars.

“The Green Foods Bible” author David Sandoval’s general recommendations:
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1. Select foods that are organic or as close to the earth as possible
2. Eat slowly and chew your food well – 30 chews per mouthful
3. Eat until you are 80% full as satiety signals take time to register
4. Be thankful and appreciate the food that nourishes you

These steps all have the potential to greatly improve your health…but growing all our own food, juicing, and cooking meals from scratch is not always realistic for all working families. That is where Purium comes in. It is the most nutrient dense and economical fast food on the market. It takes the guesswork out of nutrition and leaves you confident that you are getting the nutrition your body needs to thrive.

The Standard American Diet is called S.A.D. for a very good reason, let’s get happy with whole foods and herbs instead! Unlike most fast food, Purium’s purity standards results in real, pure, premium food blends that make the body come alive. Spread the word of your health breakthroughs and the reinvigoration of your body. Show your loved ones that there is another way!

Wikipedia defines extinction as occurring “when [species] are no longer able to survive in changing conditions or against superior competition.” Typically, a species will naturally die out within 10 million years of first appearing on the planet. Some particularly well adapted species have survived, virtually unchanged, for hundreds of millions of  years without dying out. Modern humans? Experts say we have inhabited Earth for about 125,000 to 150,000 years—meaning we should be able to survive here for at least another 9.99 million years, give or take a few.We may not, however, if we don’t make some changes—and fast.


ARE WE ON THE PRECIPICE OF EXTINCTION?

Some experts state that humans are currently in the second generation of a five generation decline in our ability tosustain our species. I don’t know about you, but I’m not ready to see humans call it quits so prematurely.

Evidence that we stand on the precipice of possible extinction goes beyond what we know about the population explosion and the sustainability of the Earth’s resources; it’s getting worse! Our food supply is over processed, contaminated with multiple chemicals and compromised permanently by dangerous genetically modified organisms (GMOs). At best, it lacks the nutritional potency necessary to support good health and sustain a species.

Fertility among North Americans is in dangerous decline. Sperm and egg counts among young adults are hitting unprecedented lows. Couples struggling to overcome infertility are increasing in number. This has been attributed to hormone mimicking chemicals that have contaminated our food chain and concentrated in our bodies, disrupting the hormonal signals necessary for procreation. The higher we eat on the food chain, the more of these chemicals we’re exposed to.

Research laboratories around the world are scrambling to untangle an ever-shifting web of drug-resistant bacteria, super-viruses, immune disorders and deadly cancers that were unknown even 30 years ago. Millions of people are dependent on multiple drugs just to get through each day—drugs that, as we’ve seen in the past year, often pose significant dangers alongside their marginal helpfulness. Depression, anxiety, crippling fatigue, allergies, asthma, learning and attention deficits: all problems distinctly of the most modernized and prosperous parts of the world.

A lot of this has to do with what we eat—both with what our food lacks (vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, fiber, and lots of other substances we have yet to discover) and with what it contains too much of (antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, herbicides, additives, colorings, industrial wastes).

I’d like to see Homo sapiens use its enormous brainpower, goodness of heart and strength of will to pull back the reins on environmental catastrophes that would spell our demise. We have the imagination and the intelligence to create a sustainable world.

A large piece of that puzzle involves major changes in the foods we cultivate and consume. As we change our diets in a radical way, we will change our own health in a similarly extreme fashion. We’ll take in fewer of the chemical toxinsimplicated in damaging reproductive and immune health. We’ll take in fewer of the foods that damage our arteries and set the stage for the growth of cancers.

From there, the microcosm of each person’s health will translate to the health of the planet. Truly a win-win proposition! I don’t mean to suggest that this is an easy transformation; however, preserving our species on the planet goes back toour intelligent use of the resources it offers us. The food we eat is the most basic and fundamental of those resources.

Proper diet leads to proper health, and that proper health is the foundation upon which the future of humanity rests. Any questions?

AVERTING DISASTER WITH PROPER DIET: THE ROLE OF PHP 

Several years back, I began to notice a disturbing trend in the lives of the people I cared about. More and more, the people I loved were complaining of low energy, poor digestion, overweight, diabetes, arthritis and dozens of other ailments, major and minor.My efforts to help make a difference in their lives and their health led me down a fascinating, fulfilling path. I have now devoted more than a decade of my life to discovering foods that heal and making them available in their purest, (almost always) organic, non-crossbred, wild crafted forms.

The food supplements I design are created especially to be easy to use and assimilate. PURIUM health products(PHP) reflects those efforts and my dedication to bringing you whole food supplements. The PHP promise is  that we have traveled the worldto bring you the most natural ingredients for our products. They are 100 percent pure, with no binders or fillers, no preservatives or additives, no chemicals or GMOs. Just as Mother Nature intended: in balance with nature, in harmony with your body. I believe that with lifestyle changes and these tools you can transform your own health—and help save our species from extinction, paving the way for a more sustainable world. It all starts with the food you put in your mouth!

Who is David Sandoval?

One of the world’s leading experts in grasses, Dave originated Green Kamut® Wheatgrass, the first wheatgrass grown from an ancient and pure heirloom seed. Rejecting the trend toward mega dosages of  vitamins and minerals, his company focused on finding nature’s most potent natural source of phytonutrients and revolutionized the way they are concentrated into non-pasteurized stable powders. Dave currently formulates and produces nutritional products for over 100 companies, from cancer treatment centers to internationally recognized health food companies, as well as for some of the most popular personalities in the nutrition industry. Dave Sandoval has spread his message across Asia, Europe, and the United States through his unrelenting desire to help people improve their quality of life and achieve maximum longevity while remaining free of disease. He hopes to inspire others to become as passionate as he is with living foods so they may live longer and healthier lives.


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Are You Constantly Sick? Tired? Over Weight? Taking Medications?

Let me tell you what the ROOT CAUSE of your problems .....
NUTRITION DEFICIENCY, LACK OF MOVEMENT AND STRESS. 
I will repeat myself over and over until you understand ...YOU CAN prevent and heal most of your ailments, sickness and disease and start having total vitality by doing the following 3 things:

1.  Feed your body the nutrients it requires DAILY.  The body cannot   
     start to heal itself if it doesn't have any good materials to work with ...like um... 
     vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, super greens, fiber, water, right amount of          protein, carbs and fats.  You know  this right? Sounds simple?  Then WHY aren't       you doing this CONSISTENTLY? 
     Do you under estimate the power of healthy food and the ability of what your 
     amazing body can do with it?  Are medications working for you?  Current diet or 
     lifestyle getting you healthier?  Doctor's advice helping?  Being passive helping?
     PROBABLY NOT.  
     Start by lowering your intake of unhealthy foods.  Add lean proteins, non                    processed carbohydrates, plenty of greens, colorful fruits and veggies and                  healthy supplementation.  

2.  Start moving! Daily!  "Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human          being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it".
     -  Plato
     Movement is our natural state of being.  Without it, health problems and faster        aging occurs.  In order for our body and mind to function at a high level, we              must always be incorporating some kind of movement.  Today's environment     
     and technology has led most of us to sit on our butts most of the day.  It is now        reported that the average American is sitting 13.5 hours per day.  This is 
     killing us!  Our muscles, bones, heart, circulatory system, posture, spine, weight, 
     metabolism, mind and so much more, benefit from some form of movement.
     Start doing something ...anything.  Join a fit camp, swim, bike, jog, tennis.                    Walking just 20-30 minutes a day can vastly improve your health condition.  

3.  De-stress your self.  Stress is a normal psychological and physical reaction to the      ever-increasing demands of life. Surveys show that many Americans experience      challenges with stress at some point during the year.

      In looking at the causes of stress, remember that your brain comes hard-wired         with an alarm system for your protection. When your brain perceives a threat, it       signals your body to release a burst of hormones to fuel your capacity for a               response. This has been labeled the "fight-or-flight" response.

     Once the threat is gone, your body is meant to return to a normal relaxed state.      Unfortunately, the nonstop stress of modern life means that your alarm system        rarely shuts off.

     That's why stress management is so important. Stress management gives you a        range of tools to reset your alarm system. 
     Without stress management, all too often your body is always on high alert.              Over time, high levels of stress lead to serious health problems. Don't wait until        stress has a negative impact on your health, relationships or quality of life. Start      practicing a range of stress management techniques today.

     Here are some ways to reduce stress in your life:

•      Start Exercising
•      Maintain a Healthy Diet
•      Get at least 6-8 Hours of Sleep
•      Have More Positive Thoughts
•      Learn to Soothe your self with Breathing Techniques
•      Meditation

I am here to help you, that is my purpose.  If you need help in any of these areas, do not hesitate to contact me.  I have a proven plan that can help you with your health,diet and lifestyle. 











 

The Right Program For You

There are many fad diets constantly getting promoted with huge advertising campaigns and it seems that not a week goes by when somebody hasn't released the latest and greatest weight loss program onto the market. Unfortunately the majority of these weight loss programs don't work for most people because they are simply too hard to maintain or alternatively they are detrimental to your overall health. There is not one diet that is perfect for everyone but there are some very good programs available that will give most people very positive results and these are all based on the same foundation of sound nutrition, good exercise and realistic expectations. Realistic expectations will get you a long way to achieving your goals so do take the time to consider what you can do, and what you can maintain over the long term. Once again using good quality supplements can help considerably by maintaining balanced nutrition and reducing hunger that comes about from your body telling you that something is missing in your nutrition. Having the support of those people around you will increase your chances of success and can help to give you the opportunity to set higher expectations and achieve your goals a lot sooner. Support for your goals is a huge factor in achieving them even if you don't need other people to remain motivated so accept all and any help that comes your way. The fact that you are considering a weight loss program only proves that you know what is good for you and all that is required now is for you to take action and make the necessary changes to your lifestyle that are overdue. The first step is always the hardest and the further you go the easier the journey becomes provided of course that you have chosen the right path to follow.

Losing weight can be compared in a lot of cases to somebody trying to give up smoking particularly for a person who has been overweight for a long time and who has had bad eating habits for much of their life. Like smoking, over eating is a habit that is quite difficult to break for the majority of people. It is for this reason why many people spend the majority of their life going from one weight-loss program to another in the search for the Magic answer that will get them in the shape that they desire. 

Once again by likening this to giving up smoking, a person who is trying to lose weight will have a considerably better chance of success if they have made up their mind completely that this is what they want. If you start a weight-loss program without the intention of following through to the ultimate outcome then the doubt that is always in the back of your mind will make it so much easier for you to fail. For many people it is more about what goes on in the mind than what they are putting into their stomach and you might have to deal with these issues first before you have any opportunity to lose weight and get in shape. 

Mind power is a very powerful thing that can work for or against you and by eliminating habits from your life you will be retraining your mind to accept the new lifestyle as your natural state whereby you will be able to maintain a good healthy body weight for the long-term. We do most things in life subconsciously including good and bad habits and by turning those bad habits into positive lifestyle changes your body weight won't be something that is constantly the focus of your life.