Defy Age Naturally

Living healthy doesn’t have to be incredibly difficult. In fact, there are by just making a few changes, we can transform our health and wellbeing.

Be physically active.  A daily routine that includes regular exercise is good for your sense of well-being and overall general health.  It will help you sleep better, too.  A regular exercise program will keep you flexible and strong.  As we age, our bones and joints tend to become stiff and inflamed.  Regular exercise keeps these aches and pains at bay.  Exercise doesn’t have to be painful to be good for you.  Several periods of light exercise a week will serve you well.  Consistency is the real key.

Eat a healthy diet.  Be sure to include a variety of healthful fruits and vegetables in what you eat each day.  Raw foods are especially good for you.  They contain more fiber and nutrients because these things are lost by cooking.  Eat complex carbohydrates and fresh, not dried or frozen proteins.  Lower your fat intake if it is more than 30% of your daily intake.  Three to five servings of carbohydrate in the form of starches and fruits should be included in each meal.

Drink alcohol only in moderation as alcohol can be very hard on the body in large quantities.  Just one drink can cause cellular death in several organs such as the brain.  Drink mixed drinks that contain fruit or vegetable juice as healthy diluents for the alcohol.  Sip your drinks, don’t gulp.  Enjoy nonalcoholic drinks.  Many restaurants that serve elaborate alcoholic cocktails will prepare them without the alcohol.

Learn how to manage stress.  Failure to manage stressors in your life can lead to heart disease, high blood pressure and a variety of emotional problems.  Take time to relax and practice some form of stress reduction each day.  Tai chi, a massage, deep breathing, listening to calming music or other sounds and meditation are all effective stress reducers.  At the end of the day, some people swear by calming music, soft lighting and a warm aromatherapy bath.

Get the right amount of sleep for you.  Any number of studies will tell you that many people don’t sleep enough.  While it is possible to sleep too much, most of us don’t have that problem.  Don’t use your sleeping room for eating or working.  It’s important to maintain an atmosphere that lends itself to sleep.  If you regularly eat and work in your sleeping room, your brain will recognize the environment as a waking one.  Go to bed at about the same time every night.  Your brain will get used to slowing down if you do that at the same time.  Always end your day on a calming note.  You will sleep better and wake the next day feeling refreshed.

As live foods, super foods, and herbs are continually researched, it is ever more absolutely apparent that all of the keys to optimum health and well being can be found in nature.  And Iboga, the root of an exotic rainforest shrub that grows in Gabon and Central West Africa is Nature’s answer to people who are searching for relief from their painful cycle of drug addiction. Ibogaine, the active ingredient contained in this root has been used in Africa for thousands of years during the ritualistic ceremonies. It can transform a person who is totally dependent on heroin, cocaine, alcohol and other drugs into a pre-dependent state, free of physical dependence and drug craving.

Ibogaine is a psychedelic, dream creating drug. The person taking Ibogaine lies down and experiences incredible visions that are relevant to their life. It seems to go straight into the unconscious mind, bringing incredible insights into one’s nature. Every person’s experience is totally different. For some it is as if they are watching a movie of their life, for others it is as if they are being reorganized like a filing cabinet, and for others, the visions may have no recognisable meaning at the time it is being taken.

Ibogaine interrupts the withdrawal symptoms and drug craving so that they can detoxify and get their life in order. It is completely non-addictive, so there is no chance that the person will become dependent on Ibogaine. It is as though Ibogaine resets the brain’s neurotransmitter function to a pre-addictive state.

Ibogaine is broken down in the liver and gut lining into a substance called nor-Ibogaine. This substance continues to be active on a patient’s opiate receptors for several weeks to several months after a single dose, which research has shown to give addicts a window of time to become free of drugs dependency.

But beyond the physical changes that occur, there also seems to be a tremendous amount of emotional change that occurs. In the weeks that follow the Ibogaine treatment, people are suddenly able to discover answers to issues that have caused them pain and suffering throughout their lives. One encounter with Ibogaine is considered by many to be equivalent to many years of talking therapy. It gives the person a previously lacking deep understanding of themselves. Compulsive behaviours have changed, addictions are gone, painful voids vanish, and they experience a new level of freedom. In fact, Ibogaine is not only being used for drug addicts, but also for people who want to sort out a whole range of issues that burden them.

So why is this not front page news of every newspaper in the world? If the leaders of our countries are serious about the “war on drugs”, then why isn’t this available to those people who are crying out for an answer to their horrendously painful addiction? The answer, unfortunately is the same old story…it is not lucrative enough.

Ibogaine was made illegal in the USA in the 1960’s along with other hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD and mushrooms. Despite incredible results during clinical trials, there is not been enough funding needed to get Ibogaine approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). And pharmaceutical companies do not want to see Ibogaine on the market because it is not profitable. Ibogaine is so amazingly powerful that you only need to do it once to get off drugs.  This is in strong contrast to drugs such as methadone which needs to be taken indefinitely.  Furthermore, once the amazing power of Ibogaine is witnessed for those who are addicted to drugs, people who suffer from depression, anxiety and other stress related disorders will want to experience the incredible benefits of Iboga, and then will not be in need of their profit making drugs.  This root bark is one of nature’s most powerful agents for change.

In saying that, it is important for everyone, especially the addict, to remember that they can get sucked back into their behaviours. The addict must choose to not associate with those people and those situations that trigger their cravings. Ibogaine is not a magic potion, it is simply one of nature’s most powerful tools to assist those who genuinely want to transform.

Ibogaine is currently illegal in the USA, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden and Switzerland, and may be so in other countries. There is currently legal help being given in Mexico, Vancouver, the UK, Africa, Thailand and Australia.

The clinical research on Ibogaine is slowly but surely continuing. There have been write ups in a number of mainstream scientific publications including Bulletin of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and The Lancet.  It has been and is now again being studied at the University of Miami in an FDA approved Phase 1 clinical trial.

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