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The liver and toxins

Modern day chemicals are everywhere. They get into our food and water as herbicides and pesticides. They are applied to our skin as cosmetics. Even most of the toothpaste and shampoo that you buy at the drug store has Sodium lauryl sulfate in it whose safety is questionable. Everything that is taken orally and passes from our mouth to the stomach and then the intestines is transferred from the intestinal tract by a bed of capillaries to the portal vein and then the liver.  The liver is the only organ that has two veins entering.  One vein from the general circulation and the other from the digestive tract.  The portal vein from the digestive tract is know as "First Pass Metabolism".  All the plasma coming the liver via the portal vein is then "metabolized" by the liver into intelligent blood that is then sent into the general metabolism. The "First Pass" through the liver is the body's way of protecting us from anything we ingest that might not be ...

Water that is alive

Normally when we here the word Prana we think of "BREATHE' or maybe if you have taken yoga classes you think of  PRANAYAMA - or various breathing exercises.  Prana or life force is life itself.  We can't survive without breathing air only minutes.  However we can live for 2-7 days without water and for weeks without food before we succumb.  All of these are needed to maintain our vitality and keep our body/mind functioning efficiently. I will focus on water in this posting.  Good quality water is not as available as it was decades ago because of pollution and the vast amount of water being used for non-essentials.  Water that comes from deep within the ground from an aquifer or from a unpolluted mountain stream is full of PRANA. It is now known as "Spring Water" and is sold in plastic bottles as great expense. Most of us do not have access to "natural spring water" that comes from the ground that is pure and safe to drink.  This is water that ha...