Three Legendary Whole Food
Probiotic Supplements
for Health and Healing & Jordan Rubin
– Founder of Garden of Life
by the Health Experts at Healthy Living
Magazine
Last October Jordan Rubin, founder of Garden of
Life, spoke at Expo East at a time when he unfurled their whole food
nutritional company’s Living Green makeover. It reminded everybody
that the company founder truly has a sense of his own place and legacy
in the field of natural health—but we think what really made people
appreciate his remarks is that Jordan showed he had his own health
heroes. He knows this field really well.
in his talk, he saluted Patricia Bragg, Jack La
Lanne, Adelle Davis, Gayelord Hauser, and so many other really great
figures in natural health—people who through their writings and
outreach have tried their best to spread a message of health. Jordan
talked about finding his own inspiration in their words and works and
deeds, how each strongly influenced his own views on health (see our
brief bios of each).
Like all of these great communicators, Jordan has been able to create
excitement and bring meaning to natural health. To him, it’s science
but more than that too. He sees it as a calling and a pathway of
learning and exploration.
Jordan’s Path to Healing
Specifically, starting in 2001, he helped people to
rediscover the healing power of live probiotic foods. He used his own
bout with near-fatal Crohn’s disease and related complications for
dramatic fodder—and it worked not only because his story was a good
one but because the products that came along with that story were
solid and based on science and ancient wisdom. Jordan did something
else: He linked health with God and renewed our faith in Biblical
dietary wisdom.
The medical hardship he faced nearly killed him, but
it was put to good use. During his illness he read hundreds of books
by health advocates and doctors about natural healing pathways in
order to search for a cure for his own condition.
Ultimately, his health took a turn for the better
when a scientist and explorer handed him a small bag of probiotic
nutrients from a pristine area of the world. These soil organisms,
when ingested, would eventually restore his body’s own populations of
beneficial bacteria and its ability to assimilate nutrients. In his
first book Patient Heal Thyself http://www.transformyourhealth.com/books/coloncarebooks.htm
he wrote about the hygiene theory of health. He said our overly
sterile lifestyles were part of the reason our bodies were often
experiencing allergies, autoimmune diseases, digestive disorders, and
a whole host of other modern day health challenges. Jordan eventually
came to see that, in a sense, he was a victim of our society’s
penchant for hyper-hygiene to the point where even our pesticides
destroy beneficial soil microorganisms.
Here’s how he recounted his illness in a 2001 issue
of The Doctors’ Prescription for Healthy Living:
“Every day I had between 12 and 30 bowel movements. Most were bloody.
I had cramping and abdominal pain that was so bad; it must have been
like having childbirth. You want to pull your hair out or bang your
head against the wall.”
It was 1994. He was only 19 and had the blood of a
dead man, almost completely lacking iron, with levels of serum albumin
indicating that he was suffering from severe wasting disease (cachexia).
His body did not have the necessary populations of beneficial
bacterial organisms to help him maintain his immune and digestive
health. He had gotten so skinny during his years of illness, in his
picture he looked like a thin sheet hastily slapped on a skeleton. He
tried many different remedies and treatments in America and Europe.
After
Patient Heal Thyself, he wrote
The Maker’s Diet, a New York Times bestseller.
Helping Others
In good people, there is always a penchant to help
others—after he got better, Jordan wanted to share his healing
message. He called his company
Garden of Life and spent the next five years bringing his
message to churches and religious groups. Garden of Life supplements
were essentially whole foods cultured with beneficial strains of
bacteria (homeostatic soil organisms). Doctors and patients alike
reported incredibly positive results. (Read more articles at
www.freedompressonline.com.)
Three Legendary Whole Food Probiotic Supplements
Primal Defense,
Perfect Food, and
RM-10 all became industry-leading sellers, where they remain
today, according to the SPINS data. Why? Because they were not only
different but based on solid principles of natural health, and because
so many doctors, patients and magazines began writing about these
results.
Good health requires taking care of your
gastrointestinal tract. If your gastrointestinal tract isn’t
functioning optimally, your health is compromised. In Jordan’s case,
his diarrhea and abdominal cramping were secondary to extreme
intestinal dysbiosis—a condition that occurs when the population of
organisms residing within the gastrointestinal tract becomes
unbalanced, often resulting in acute or chronic sickness.
Normally, populations of disease-causing bacterial
flora are kept in check by competition from good bacteria and because
of symbiosis, which is the mutually interdependent relationship among
the hundreds of intestinal microbial species residing within the
body’s gastrointestinal tract. But so many of us have destroyed our
beneficial populations of bacteria through too much processed food,
antibiotics—from prescriptions and in our foods (such as dairy and
meat)—and not enough cultured foods.
Jordan helped return to us our concept of
culturing
As he told The Doctors’ Prescription for Healthy
Living early on while discussing the benefits of RM-10, http://www.transformyourhealth.com/gardenoflife/rm10.htm
“There are records of traditional herbalism from the Orient and other
cultures in the Far East dating back 1500 years ago, which talked
about herbal remedies that were used to treat a variety of ailments.
In the past, there were always very predictable, very effective, very
potent results. Yet today, we are not getting the same kind of healing
response from these herbs. The reason people today aren’t being helped
is not necessarily due to the lack of healing properties in the herbs
themselves—it is the direct result of an ultimate breakdown in the
human digestive tract. The nutrients and phytochemicals contained in
herbs are not being broken down and utilized properly by the body,
primarily because people’s guts have been destroyed from the overuse
of prescription medications—antibiotics, corticosteroids, and other
immune-suppressive drugs—as well as chlorinated and fluoridated water,
ambient pollutants in our environment, and an overall poor diet
coupled with a steady intake of junk foods.”
 
The application of the Poten-Zyme process in
RM-10 creates a way for our bodies to utilize all of the
phytochemicals and phytonutrients available in these herbs, with very
little stress on the digestive tract. This benefit is extremely
important to those people undergoing chemotherapy and radiation, or
those with AIDS and other immune disorders who have very little
digestive capability. The enzymatic “pre-digestion” process in RM-10
increases bioavailability and absorption of the medicinal compounds,
making them “body ready” for everyone, even those with compromised
digestion. In other words, the sickest persons, with the least ability
to utilize fibrous herbs, receive a much greater boost from RM-10
thanks to the fermentation process that the herbs undergo that makes
their healing constituents far more available to the body.
Homeostatic Soil Organisms
The big formula though for everybody, the one that
began it all, is
Primal Defense, which contains a blend of Homeostatic Soil
Organisms known to be helpful to the human body. Do not confuse HSOs
with typical probiotic formulas. “Probiotic formulas are great, but
HSOs add to our diet the many beneficial microorganisms modern
agricultural and food-processing methods have denied our bodies.” The
HSOs in Primal Defense contain 15 non-dairy probiotic strains provided
intact in the fermented substrate in which they were raised.
Some experts said that ingesting these HSOs was like
eating a plant grown in pristine soil thousands of years ago. “No more
are you taking in pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, chlorine
additives, fluorine, pollutants, carcinogens, atherogens, allergens,
mutagens, autointoxicants, toxic metals, and other pathology-producing
substances,” said Dr. Morton Walker who wrote several stories that he
published in The Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients. “The
homeostatic soil organisms act as neutralizers of the poisons that
ordinarily float in our food supply. They come from unpolluted sources
and are currently cultured in a pristine environment maintained in
laboratories . . .”
The host medium or substrate of green foods
extracted from certified organic cereal grasses is important. Unlike
conventional probiotic formulas that deliver their bacterial forms in
a surprisingly sterile system (other than the beneficial organisms
themselves),
Primal Defense’s HSOs are not spun in a centrifuge but rather
cultured in a nutritious growth mediums. This fermentation process
leads to the creation of healthful compounds such as antioxidants.
After its introduction in 2001, Primal Defense
became the leading probiotic formula in the country. Today it
continues to be an industry leader and has spawned several related
formulas.
Primal Defense ULTRA - Ultimate Probiotic Formula is now
perhaps the highest potency broad-spectrum probiotic formula, made
with 15 billion live cells per dosage, and an increased range of hardy
beneficial active microorganisms to support intestinal comfort, bowel
function and immune system health. For daily maintenance, great-priced
Primal Defense HSO Probiotic Formula contains a proprietary blend of
Homeostatic Soil Organisms that help maintain a balanced,
healthy internal environment. The probiotics in Primal Defense also
promote regular bowel function and help maintain an already healthy
immune system.
Primal Defense Kids - Probiotic Formula can help support the
health and vitality of your child’s immune and digestive systems.
Primal Defense Kids is made with organic banana so your child will
enjoy taking it.
Super Green Foods
And, finally, there is
Perfect Food. How would you like to be able to consume your
daily five to nine servings of vegetables in one drink? It’s estimated
by the United States Department of Agriculture that less than 9.5
percent of the American adult population consumes five or more
servings of fresh fruits and vegetables daily. Yet, almost every major
health organization, including the National Institutes of Health,
American Cancer Society, American Dietetics Association, and American
Heart Association, have advised that eating five to nine servings of
fruits and vegetables per day is the public’s best protection against
degenerative diseases.
In the land of plenty, when we fail to consume
adequate amounts of vegetables, we are squandering one of our most
powerful weapons against killer diseases. Vegetables, when consumed at
optimal amounts, have been shown in countless studies to protect
against heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, and
almost every killer disease common to modern men and women. A
researcher at the University of Minnesota who specializes in studying
the effects of enzymes that ward off cancer, Lee Wattenberg, Ph.D.,
has confirmed the value of taking in quantities of green superfoods
each day. Dr. Wattenberg’s confirmation regarding the value of green
superfoods was delivered in conjunction with the following summarizing
statement: “Every vegetable, every fruit, has literally hundreds of
constituents—any protection is likely due to a combination rather than
a single chemical.”
Green foods are extremely important because they
provide individual and combinations of nutrients we don’t typically
receive in our diet. This is especially true for the more than 90
percent of Americans who don’t meet even the minimal recommended
intake of fruits and vegetables.
As a means of countering this dismal finding, many
consumers have turned to super green powdered blends. Such formulas,
which are usually mixed with water or juice or taken as a tablet,
utilize wheatgrass, alfalfa, barley, and other cereal grasses and
green foods. Yet, no other company has packed as much nutrition into
one probiotic whole green food drink as Garden of Life did with
Perfect Food. It is so power-packed it dominated the green foods
category from the start, and continues to do so. Here’s why Perfect
Food recommended itself to health seekers:
Provides recommended daily serving of vegetables
in one serving - One serving of Perfect Food is the equivalent of
five to ten servings of vegetables, based on intake of marker
nutrients such as calcium, vitamin A, vitamin C and iron.
More greens per serving - The concentrate
used in Perfect Food is 33 to 1. That means it takes 33 pounds of
cereal grasses to make one pound of Perfect Food. What’s more, Perfect
Food is 86 percent greens. Most competitor formulas contain only 30
percent greens, with the rest made up of high amounts of apple fiber
and lecithin (two byproducts of the largest industries in the
world—apple juice and soy production) or other types of fillers.
Improved Bioavailability and Absorption -
Perfect Food is also a predigested green drink, once again
using live cultures to create potent probiotic nutrients.
Many of the longest living and healthiest people in history have
relied on fermented foods such as yogurt, kefir, miso and tofu to
support their health—and Jordan captured this powerful knowledge
within three amazing products. So when you’re shopping for health,
remember how important probiotic nutrients are to your health.
Resources
For more information on the Garden of Life Probiotic
Whole Food Supplements mentioned in this article, please click on the
following links:
Healing Greats
The daughter of the legendary Paul C. Bragg,
the originator of health food stores and founder of America’s health
movement, Patricia Bragg is a one-woman health organization. With 22
self-health books in print in 23 languages, Bragg has taken a
leadership role in inspiring millions of people around the world to
get on the path to good health. Whether passing out pamphlets at her
local Santa Barbara farmers’ market or traveling the world (13 world
trips to date) to lecture on a variety of health concerns, she is a
woman on a health crusade.
Adelle Davis (1904-1974) was an American
pioneer in the fledgling field of nutrition during the mid-twentieth
century. She was an outspoken advocate of the superior value of whole,
unprocessed foods, the dangers of food additives, and the dominant
role that all nutrients play in maintaining health, preventing
disease, and restoring health after the onset of disease.
Dr. Gayelord Hauser (1895-1984) was a German
born-nutritionist, syndicated columnist and author of several
bestselling books, most notably Look Younger, Live Longer (1950). One
of the first proponents of living, whole foods, he criticized the
“empty” over processed foods that were gaining popularity in the
mid-twentieth century, especially sugar and white flour. Dr. Hauser is
considered by many to be the founder of the natural foods movement.
Jack La Lanne, now 92 years old, is an
American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert, celebrity, author,
lecturer, and motivational speaker. His focus on regular, vigorous
exercise and good nutrition gained him popularity decades before the
idea of physical fitness moved into the mainstream. La Lanne has been
referred to as “the godfather of fitness.”
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