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As you continue to grow on your health journey you will discover things that may seem weird in nature but will be beneficial to your overall well being.  For me, Spirulina was one of those things.  The thought of consuming a seaweed or an algae was unthinkable.  I had always thought of algae (or an algae eater rather) as something that we use in a fish tank to help facilitate a healthier environment for the fish.  Never once did I consider the thought of consuming algae as a part of my personal diet.  I soon found out just how little I knew about wellness.

​So what is Spirulina? Spirulina is a blue-green fresh water algae that was once considered to be a staple food in the Aztec and Mesoamerican culture.  What makes it unique is the amount of nutrients that it contains.  This plant contains high amounts of iron, calcium Vitamin A, Vitamin B6, magnesium and Vitamin C.  It is said to be one of the world's most nutrient dense foods.  This means that you will be hard pressed to find individual food sources that have equal or more nutrients than Spirulina has.

There are other forms of healthy seaweeds in addition to spirulina.  This just so happens to be my favorite.  If you feel that you'd like to try something else there is; sea moss, dulse, wakame, nori, kombu, bladderwrack and kelp.  The Japanese culture has been documented as the longest lived people on earth in recent studies.  It's no coincidence that their diet is rich in sea vegetables.  They consume high amounts of soups and vegetables within their daily alimentation.  Sea veggies like spirulina are ideal for our consumption because they come from fresh water and are rich in minerals.  All nutrients are essential for human consumption but if I had to single out a family of nutrients that's at the top of the food chain it would be minerals.  Without minerals you cannot absorb vitamins.  Without minerals you are prone to contract any one of a collection of nutrient deficiency diseases.  Sea vegetables like spirulina, sea moss and others are most noted for their high mineral content.

Unlike the fresh produce that we consume from the land on which we reside, spirulina and other sea veggies do not rely on the soil for their growth.  This in turn gives them an advantage as we know that much of our soil has been tainted over the years due to environmental pollution and farming methods.  Blue-green algae and all other sea vegetation rely on the water for their growth.  The one concern that I have with regards to seaweed is that they too are subject to pollution via the water.  You must be diligent in finding out which commercial brands are the best.  Consult your local herbalist or herb shop to find out if the brands that are available to you are credible.
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One of the most impressive benefits to consuming seaweed is that you generally don't need to consume anything else as a supplement.  One or two high quality mineral-rich seaweed supplements on the daily basis will be just enough to help you get on the right track.  This is of course in addition to a healthy balanced diet and moderate exercise (if possible).  Spirulina is available in capsules or bulk powder form.  If you purchase it in powder form it's easiest to consume in a smoothie.  Trying to consume spirulina in a cup of water may be tough for the average person.  If you can pull it off I say go for it.  But I haven't had the urge to do so.  The most expedient way would be to get them in capsule form.  Be sure that the capsules are vegetable or vegan capsules as you want to consume the healthiest capsule form possible.

Dog Foods 
The family is eating at the dinner table and the dog is sitting on the side of the table seeking eye contact from anyone who is weak enough to give in to his desire for food..  He wags his tail in hopes of winning some table scraps. Your daughter (who loves her golden retriever) mysteriously lets some of her country fried potatoes hit the floor beneath her.  The dog sniffs the food and leaves it there.  As a parent you have warned your children many times before not to give the dog table scraps because it can harm the dog.  Not only can you harm it but it's just not a good habit to get into.

During your first visit to the veterinarian they explained to you which were the best dog foods to buy for your dog.  As a human being it is interesting that the food we eat could be harmful to a dog.  It is quite interesting that a dog won't eat everything that a human would but yet we consider ourselves to be smarter than dogs.  I know I know... in the hood there are a mob of stray dogs that eat anything they can out of people's garbage because they are unable to eat from the various selections of premium dog foods.

The logic behind you being told never to give your dog table food is relatively simple.  Dogs cannot cook for themselves, go to the grocery store and buy their own food or fix their own plate.  For this reason dog foods have to be mechanically engineered perfectly with all the known essential nutrients. Dog foods must be able to give them a nutritional benefit with every bite taken. Have you ever seen a dog vomit after a child gave it a pop sickle or a piece of chocolate?  Most of us have.

There are dogs that try to taste everything but then there is the dog that you think something is wrong with because the dog won't eat certain foods.  It is due in large part to the fact that its' stomach is not used to those kinds of elements and thus the digestive system rejects them immediately.  Although some of us have those stuck-up spoiled dogs who think they are supposed to eat everything that humans consume.  You know the kind that will only eat meat and chicken bones but if you throw them some rice, beans or greens on the floor they will look at you and walk off as if to say, "Do you think i'm a fool or something?" So no, i'm not talking about those dogs!

The interesting part about this is although dog foods are mechanically engineered your dog will more likely than not eat better than your child unless you are extremely knowledgeable about nutrition.  All dog foods come with a certain amount of minerals in them. Generally, they contain twenty-five to thirty-five minerals. Science Diet Dog Food contains roughly forty minerals. This is not just true for dogs as it is all other animals that are fed with pellets or bite size capsules.  When a child is born they have two options.  They will either take milk from their mother's breasts or consume baby formulas. Two of the leading children's formulas on the market are Enfamil and Pro Soy Be.  On their best days they contain twelve to thirteen minerals in their formula.  The other formulas on the market generally contain ten or less. Twelve minerals is a far cry from the Dog food that contains 40 minerals.  You do the math on who is eating better.

According to Dr. Joel Wallach, "Children on average are not getting the proper nutrients at birth which in turn causes them to contract diseases that use to occur in people in their sixties and seventies. These illnesses are not genetic but they are cultural." They are cultural in the fact that children will more than likely follow the same diet that their parents followed which will lead to the same illnesses.  Some of those illnesses include; poor digestion, constipation, diabetes, obesity and hyperactivity (ADD).  To alleviate this problem it is wise to cut back or even stop feeding your children cereals that contain sugar packed non-digestible vitamins.  Foods like Froot Loops, Cocoa Puffs and Corn Flakes would all be examples of cereals that contain vitamins but in a non-digestible form.

I hope that you can understand why your dog won't eat all of the food that your kids will.  The simple explanation is that your dog probably gets more nutrition from the dog foods that it consumes.

A solution to getting your children more minerals would be for you to consume a good liquid or plant based supplement loaded with at least 60 minerals.  If you are a nursing mother your children will feed from you and consume some of those minerals.  If you're not nursing you may want to consider giving your child Alternative Baby Milk Nutritive.  This is loaded with various types of vitamins and minerals that the body needs.  Both of these suggestions coupled with consuming a diet rich in plant life.  It's a shame that dog foods are prepared with more essential nutrients than baby formulas!  The good news is that you can do something about the issue now that you know.

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You might ask, what does sex transmutation have to do with transmitting? To break that down we must start by talking about celibacy.  I have to cover the art of using celibacy as a tool for the overall improvement of mankind because there are more than enough articles, magazines and videos promoting sex that are currently circulating the air and ocular waves.  Above all things there has to be balance and so this article is an attempt to share information that could potentially provide balance as it relates to the health and wellness of your spirit and physical body.  We already know how to get it in!!

During my professional basketball career I had a coach who was like a father to me named Marc Fulcher aka "Black Man" and "Folks" (RIP Folks).   Marc was from the streets of Oakland.   He passed a few years ago but he left me many life principles of which I still apply today.  One of the things that he always stressed to me was that if I decided to go around sleeping with multiple women that I would lose my energy each time I ejaculated.  He knew which players were doing what based on their energy levels during the games.  It was actually quite comical to see guys get break away layups for a dunk and watch their legs buckle while trying to jump!  More importantly as men we would "lose our seed and apart of ourselves each time."  Males, you ever noticed how you feel weaker after ejaculating?

I can re-call a time while playing in the Dominican Republic and the woman that I was seeing (at the time) came from La Vega (another part of the Dominican Republic) to visit me while I was in the finals of the playoffs.  My team's first response was to inform me not to have sex with my girl the day before or of any games.  Needless to say I didn't listen.  Consequently, during the following game, ALL of my shots were SHORT and NONE of them went in.  I was scored on several times which was unusual because I am generally the best defensive player on the court!  By the results team officials and fans knew what the case of the pedestrian performance was!  In the DR everybody knows your business damn near before you do!!!

Here is the major issue with most of us.  Many have taken the act of sex and made it into a recreation when it was actually intended for pro-creation, exercise and enjoyment, the downloading of information, bonding and much more.   Bliss and enjoyment for two people who are married, in an intimate relationship or have a deep understanding of each other and want the experience.  I don't re-call the biblical scripture where it speaks of man spilling his seed but there is much ancient wisdom on this topic.  For men when you engage in many sex acts you are putting a great deal of pressure on the prostate.  The prostate has to open and close during the ejaculation process as well as be a chief vehicle in the semen formulation process.  I don't have any studies but what I often wonder is, how many men have contracted prostate problems or prostate cancer because they have either masturbated too much or had too much sex?  I believe the numbers are high.

When you are trying to achieve a certain level in life you must learn to become celibate and use this energy on your goal.  The great Napoleon Hill made a statement that makes a great deal of sense.  Hill stated (and I'm paraphrasing) that "Generally speaking, people (especially men) don't begin to advance in their career until their mid-forties.  It's only because they have left that sexual energy behind or it has reached calmer levels that allow them to concentrate and get other things done in life. That energy has been put into their job or business now.  This is called sexual transmutation."

As it stands there are many people who engage in low vibrational sex.  There is no judgement here because most nearly all of us have done it at some point in life.  Low vibrational sex is just casual sex with people you may not really know or someone that you have no intentions on being with or around.  We basically serve our mundane desires of what we feel is "meeting our needs."  This is about pure satisfaction.  I'm not saying that it can't be done if two people are on the same wave length and are both agreeing to such a thing.  The problem is that one of the two people will eventually want more or could be carrying some bad vibes with them along with sexually transmitted dis-eases.  When you engage in low vibrational sex you have no way of knowing how many people this person has been with.   They might tell you but there is no real way to be sure.  If we are looking at this metaphysically and spiritually then we will understand that you will take on the energy and personality of the individual that you decided to lay with.

The most interesting part about this is that not only will you be taking on your sex partner's energy but you will also take on the energy of the people that they have been with.  You ever been physically involved with someone and you begin to act different and you don't even realize why you are behaving differently? It's because you have taken on other personalities. What if that man or woman was with a killer or child molester?  Now you've taken on all of their energy. Energy never dissipates it just changes from one form to the other. There are so many things that can happen to you just because you are not willing to use discretion and focus on what you need to focus on.
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Am I saying stop having sex?  Hell no!  We all love it.  What I'm proposing is that if you are plagued with problems (health or personal) or want some clarity on life, you may want to consider taking a break and abstaining from sexual activity.  The time will be based on you as an individual.  Of course that would depend on if you are married or single.  Let's be real, whose spouse is going to want to not get some skins for 6 months?  So above all things we have to be logical.  But if you are single the galaxy is the limit. What's going to happen is your mind will become clear because the sexual energy is going into you and your projects. Meditation and quiet time will prove favorable for your personal development during this period. I remember reading an article about rap group Wutang member Rza.  He shared some information that opened my eyes some years ago.  He revealed that he went celibate for one to two years (don't quote me on the time frame but it was an extended period of time). The result of his discipline was more energy and a boost in his goal oriented endeavors. The funny thing about being celibate is that you attract more of the opposite sex because they can notice the energy or your aura.  This celibate time is so important so that you can focus all of you energies on personal development and attract everything that you want to yourself.

On the contrary, being too celibate can be detrimental.  Remember the universe likes balance.  If you are at an age where a person would be fairly sexually active and you are celibate for many years then you could potentially face back lash. I know women that have had little to no sex in their lives and the result of this negligence has been the creation of dis-eases and pathologies for themselves. This is due to the extremely high amount of suppressed energy. We have to be realistic about one thing.  It is natural for everyone to want to engage in physical activity from the opposite sex.  Some form of physical touch is needed.  When you suppress this act for so long, eventually things start to find a way to express themselves and manifest into other outbursts within the body. It's like pressure bursting a pipe.  The pipe can only withstand but so much pressure before it explodes.

Years of suppression can result in swollen prostates in men and several other urinary tract or sexual reproductive hindrances.  In women ailments such as endometriosis, infertility and ovarian cancer are commonplace as a result of “with-holding too long.” This is all because they waited for so long to release the built up stress.  Many times it's due to religious beliefs, career focus or holding out for the perfect individual that doesn't exist.  I am not advocating you break your beliefs.  But I am suggesting that you find a way to express your sexuality "within the confines of your belief or faith system."  So we see here that doing too much can get you in trouble and doing too little can do the same!

Celibacy and sex transmutation is a powerful tool that when practiced correctly can change your life for the better.  Use it for what it's worth but don't abuse it!

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There are an abnormally high number of people who are afraid of genetics coming back to haunt them.  They have in their mind that if their mother or father had a specific disease then they too will contract that same disease.  When you enter a doctor's office what is one of the first things that you must do?  

You generally have to fill out a form.  On that form is a checklist of things that you may have contracted in your past or things that have a history of showing themselves within your family. What the doctor is doing is checking to see what diseases you may be "prone" to contracting.  The operative word here is "prone" and you will understand why later.  Doctors may tell you that certain diseases are genetic but that is somewhat of a generic approach to what may be going on within your family.   Most disease is not genetic.  What doctors know is that if you were raised in a family with strong unhealthy dietary traditions then you are prone to come down with any disease that your parents or grandparents once had.

This is the part that most doctors won't share with you.  In a technical sense these diseases are genetic if you continue on the dietary path that your family did.  However, if you were to change your diet and begin to eat those healthy foods then you will have proven that the diseases are more cultural than anything.  An example would be if you grew up eating soul food such as many of the African Americans from the southern parts of the United States did.  If all you have ever known is fried foods, ham hocks and chitterlings then you will probably continue to eat these things over the course of your life.  Naturally if you are a truth seeker and researcher then you will change your life.  But if you eat this way and you know that your mother had cancer and your father had cancer then it is a very strong chance that you too will contract cancer because you are eating the same foods that they ate.  So, this pattern of eating is what makes diseases genetic if we are going to use the term.

​Disease is not genetic.  It's cultural. (Most times)
But guess what?  If you were to stray from the path and take a diet that is rich in raw foods, fresh herbs, micronutrients and nutrient dense foods then the chances are that you would not become ill as your parents did.   When a doctor tells you that something is genetic do not be alarmed.  What they are aiming to say is that you eat the same way as your parents so you are subject to contract the same afflictions.  At the end of the day we are all products of our environment.  If both of your parents were lawyers and your grandparents were lawyers then there is a strong possibility that you or one of your siblings could become a lawyer.  It is not guaranteed but it is a strong possibility.  Only a willingness to choose another career path would break the cycle.  This same concept can be used in relation to diseases being genetic.  If you want to break the cycle then you must change your diet along with your pattern of thoughts.

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