Mushrooms are a vast and largely untapped source of powerful medicinal applications and one of the most mysterious and magical comes from the deepest forests of Russia called Siberian Chaga (Latin name “Inonotus Obliquus”) In the Orient medicinal mushroom usage is legendary, used for centuries in promoting good health and vitality, anti aging and youthfulness, probiotic balancing 8 immunity enhancement. They are currently used as adjuncts in Japan, China, Korea and Russia for cancer, aids, heart, cholesterol, tumor, stomach, allergy, virus, herpes and other bodily diseases.

Siberian Chaga is very unique and very rare. The best species are harvested once every twenty years from select high altitude Birch trees. Out of 10,000 aged trees only 3-4 are classified as “Grade 1 or Superior Type”. Siberian Chaga grows under extreme Artic conditions nurturing in temperatures falling well below – 40°C. to -70 “C One of the most amazing medicinal properties of Chaga versus other well known mushrooms such as Lingzhi, Reishi, Agaricus or Maitake lies in its extraordinary SOD antioxidant level. The SOD content of Chaga is 25-50 times higher than any known medicinal mushroom. Furthermore one serving of Chaga contains more Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) than wild blueberries. Vitamin C, beta-carotene or CoQ10.

The secrets contained in WILDCRAFTED SIBERIAN CHAGA were not revealed until the mushroom was fully researched in Japan, Russia, China and Europe during the 1980s. Over 1400 publications verify the medicinal effects for many different ailments affecting humans.

In Western medicine preventative cure is woefully neglected and the consumer is driven by disease states or dysfunction problems. Further without animal based or human clinical trials to validate the usefulness of health supplements, most consumers fail to grasp medicinal mushrooms as an alternative practice to drugs, chemotherapy or radiation. In the Orient a parallel health care regimen with traditional approaches is much appreciated and well accepted. Although Wildcrafted Siberian Chaga is viewed antidotal by many, there are thousands of satisfied users who have recovered from debilitating diseases and endorsed this powerful and magical formulary.

Wildcrafted Siberian Chaga is 100% natural, safe and non toxic. This proprietary formulation made exclusively for Chaga International Inc. contains the phenomenal Pi water, a revolutionary technology that adds aura energy and deionization effects. Siberian Chaga, besides its extraordinary antioxidant content, contains over 215 phytonutrients such as betulinic acid, saponins, 29 alpha and beta glucans, triterpenes, natural plant sterols and an abundance of minerals, fibers and amino acids.

Scientific and clinical research studies on these constituents report promising benefits for cancer and aids recovery, neurological and heart diseases, digestive, blood sugar, immune enhancement and others. In the Orient Siberian Chaga is associated with stopping the aging process, restoring beauty and youth and boosting one’s Chi or Energy level.…

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Why are Americans so worked up about health care reform? Statements such as “don’t touch my Medicare” or “everyone should have access to state of the art health care irrespective of cost” are in my opinion uninformed and visceral responses that indicate a poor understanding of our health care system’s history, its current and future resources and the funding challenges that America faces going forward. While we all wonder how the health care system has reached what some refer to as a crisis stage. Let’s try to take some of the emotion out of the debate by briefly examining how health care in this country emerged and how that has formed our thinking and culture about health care. With that as a foundation let’s look at the pros and cons of the Obama administration health care reform proposals and let’s look at the concepts put forth by the Republicans?

Access to state of the art health care services is something we can all agree would be a good thing for this country. Experiencing a serious illness is one of life’s major challenges and to face it without the means to pay for it is positively frightening. But as we shall see, once we know the facts, we will find that achieving this goal will not be easy without our individual contribution.

These are the themes I will touch on to try to make some sense out of what is happening to American health care and the steps we can personally take to make things better.

• A recent history of American health care – what has driven the costs so high?
• Key elements of the Obama health care plan
• The Republican view of health care – free market competition
• Universal access to state of the art health care – a worthy goal but not easy to achieve
• what can we do?

First, let’s get a little historical perspective on American health care. This is not intended to be an exhausted look into that history but it will give us an appreciation of how the health care system and our expectations for it developed. What drove costs higher and higher?

To begin, let’s turn to the American civil war. In that war, dated tactics and the carnage inflicted by modern weapons of the era combined to cause ghastly results. Not generally known is that most of the deaths on both sides of that war were not the result of actual combat but to what happened after a battlefield wound was inflicted. To begin with, evacuation of the wounded moved at a snail’s pace and this caused severe delays in treating the wounded. Secondly, many wounds were subjected to wound care, related surgeries and/or amputations of the affected limbs and this often resulted in the onset of massive infection. So you might survive a battle wound only to die at the hands of medical care providers who although well-intentioned, their interventions were often quite lethal. High death tolls can also be ascribed to …

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Okay, so assuming you finally know your Diabetes status, assuming it turns out to be positive, how should you go about treating it? What is the best course of action open to you? What would treatment involve and what would you need to do or refrain from doing to ensure that treatment is successful? All these questions and more will be answered in this article.

So here goes.

Usually since diabetes is indicated by an above normal presence of blood sugar (200 mg / dl or more-random plasma Glucose test or 126 mg / dl or more- fast plasma glucose test), it is the aim of diabetes treatment to ensure that if through medication, exercise, surgery, dietary adjustments, etc. or a combination of all these, blood sugar level is standardized and brought back to normal. However such treatment must make sure at the same time that the opportunity does not happen-that blood sugar does not fall to abnormally low levels (hypoglycemia).

Correspondingly, the monitoring of blood sugar is also an essential aspect of diabetes treatment. The first thing to note therefore, assuming you are diagnosed with diabetes is that diabetes treatment equates to diabetes management. For now strictly speaking, whether for Type 1 (especially for Type 1) or Type 2 (depending on your take on reversal), there is no cure.

The second thing to note is that treatment would generally involve some life style changes. These changes will involve a combination of some or all of the following; dietary adjustments, exercise and the taking of diabetes medication like insulin and metformin.

Type 1 diabetes is treated with insulin, exercise and a diabetic diet. Type 2 on the other hand is treated first with weight reduction, a diabetic diet and exercise. And secondly in cases where this would not be enough, thereafter with diabetes medication or insulin therapy and Blood Sugar monitoring. As such training in self-management of diabetes is an indispensable part of diabetes management.

That said, it is important to note that treatment must be tailored to individual needs thereby catering to individual diabetic differences. Such treatment should take away into cognizance and address psycho-social, medical and lifestyle issues.

For the vast majority of people with Type 1 diabetes, insulin is the only form of medication they will need to take. For people with Type 2 diabetes however, available medication vary and depending on their circumstances, they may or may not need to take one or more of these drugs. Let's take a defect look into treatment for Type 2 diabetes.

Healthy eating

Although there is no specific diabetes diet, since our aim is to reduce blood sugar, it is best to reduce the intake of carbohydrates, animal products, sugar and fats. Instead one should center his or her diet around vegetables, fruits and whole grains.

Foods with a low glycemic index (foods that do not raise your blood sugar quickly), typically high in fiber foods, can be helpful in helping one to reach a stable blood sugar level. …

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