Japanese researchers have uncovered a remarkable new way to boost your immune system’s ability to kill cancer cells, viruses, and pathogenic bacteria by up to 300%.

Cancer rates in the U.S. are officially off the charts. A century ago the disease occurred in 1-in-100 people. Today, half of all adults will get some form of cancer in their lifetime. That’s 1-in-2 people! Why this alarming increase? It’s being caused by a steady and widespread breakdown of the immune system among our population. Cancer cells are naturally present in everyone’s bloodstream, but are kept in check by a special immune cell called NK (short for Natural Killer). When NK activity weakens either from old age, poor nutrition, or stress, cancer cells are free to multiply and become tumors. That’s what is happening throughout our country today.

We need better treatments. When a person is diagnosed with cancer, the only treatments permitted in this country are chemotherapy and radiation. Both have horrendous side effects, such as hair loss and vomiting. Both poison the immune system and destroy Natural Killer cells, thus increasing the chances of relapse. And both have poor long-term survival rates. This isn’t the case in other countries. In Japan, for instance, a surprising new, natural cancer treatment involves stimulating the patient’s immune system so tumors are gobbled up by a feeding frenzy of NK cells. You might be surprised to learn that doctors trigger this sudden blast of immune activity with a natural substance found in certain Japanese mushrooms like those in the Gano Excel Coffees, Tea, Hot Chocolate and other products.

These mushroom extracts are now one of the leading cancer prescription treatments in that country! Using the immune system like this is the next big frontier in medicine. It holds the promise of finding real cures, not just for cancer, but heart disease, arthritis, allergies, and many other ills. But even though the Japanese are doing a better job in the battle against cancer, it will take many years if not decades before U.S. doctors accept the idea that the immune system is the key to beating cancer and other diseases. Sadly, that will be too late for most Americans who are now over 50 or younger, people with a family history of these diseases. That’s the bad news. The good news is that scientists have recently isolated the active substance in these medicinal mushrooms and put it into capsule form and hot beverages. Since your immune system is your first line of defense against more that just cancer (it’s how your body fights off the flu, colds, recurring infections, pathogenic and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and virtually any other disease), medicinal mushrooms offer benefits that go far beyond just cancer protection. People who would also greatly benefit from medicinal mushrooms include

• Those with a history of smoking.
• Those with a history of heavy drinking.
• Individuals working in the medical field who are exposed to highly contagious diseases.
• Elderly individuals with weakened immune systems. This is because Natural Killer cells respond slower as we get older, resulting in recurring bouts of infection and noticeable decline in general health.

Ok, back to coffee. I haven’t taken a break from coffee. I drink it faithfully, and it’s been a lifesaver in this time of stress. Tastes good too. Have I mentioned that it is a wonderful fullbodied Arabica coffee, grown organically in Brazil. No imitation “instant coffee” taste here.

You, know all this gano coffee talk is hard to believe. I know I was skeptical until I tried it. I was just sure I would add hot water and it would turn into this clear green liquid with a bit if fizz. Or that it would just be another cup of coffee, and not change my life at all. Not.

Gano Lucidum is real. The stories of its amazing power have continued for more than 2000 years, and are still astounding scientists and medical professionals today. Gano Excel has the world’s largest and cleanest ganoderma farm in Malaysia.

The coffee is real. It’s delicious, and for many people, one cup is all it takes to cure them of a severe caffiene additction. No lethargy, No headaches, Just a smooth transition from an unhealthy energy boost to a healthy one.

The newfound energy is real. Reishi gives you a serious energy boost that comes from your body’s natural response to all that good stuff. It beats a caffeine hight hands down.

I’m sure glad I found it.

This went on until after seven, when I finally woke up enough to realize what was happening. I got up and left the house at 7:30. I rode uphill to the bottom of a trail, and walked up the mountain just a little ways. We have bright yellow 5 inch spiders that build huge sticky webs, and lots of them. After nearly getting stuck up by the 6th web, I decided that was enough exercise and turned back.

Ah, I had worked out royally, or so I thought, until I got home and realized I’d been gone just under half an hour! Oh, well, at least I started establishing a pattern of getting up to go exercise. I’ll try harder tomorrow.

More about coffee in the next blog.

Caffeine is an addictive drug that sets you on a perpetual roller coaster of jittery highs, afternoon slumps, and sleepless nights. The acid content content is so damaging that it takes 17 glasses of water to nutralize just one cup of java.

In “Healthy Coffee,” the caffeine is virtually gone. This isn’t decaf, which tastes like a cheap imitation of coffee. It’s a real full-bodied gormet Brazilian coffee, but there are only 1 or 2 mg. of caffiene per ounce of coffee as opposed to 15 – 18 mg. in an average cup of traditional brew.

Acid? Amazingly, the ganoderma lucidum, or Reishi as it is often called, is just the right amount of alkaline to neutralize the coffee’s acid. You know that raw feeling in your stomach when you drink coffee too strong on an empty stomach? That never occurs with Gano Excel’s “Healthy Coffee.”

Now, one can mail order a 100 gram package of dried Ganoderma mushrooms for about $200. Immagine paying that much money to get a small handful of these mysterious treasures, and then going about the process of preparing them to get some of the good out. First you will have to soak them in cold water for 8 hours, then boil them for another two. Strain the liquid and attempt to drink it. I haven’t had the good fortune to try it, but I hear it’s almost impossible to get down.

Sound preposterous? But people in Japan are doing just that, because of the amazing results they are seeing in their health.

Lucky for us, there is a great company – Gano Excel – that has spent 11 years of research to remove the awful taste and odor without damaging the rich nutrients and poly-saccharides that make it so very good for us. Then they took up the task of finding ways to make it very easy to take.

These same clever people found some wonderful organic coffee plantations in Brazil, roasted and brewed the coffee to perfection, and then found a way to “spray dry” it that retains all the good flavor and expells most of the caffiene.

They put these two discoveries together to produce real live “healthy coffee”.

Dear Deb,

    I told you to bring me my next box of ganocoffee.  You haven’t showed up and it’s been two days.  You are a horrible saleswoman.  Besides that if I run out I’ll die, so get yourself over here with the next box.  If you don’t I’ll – - well, you just never know what I’ll do and you really don’t want to find out.

    For years I’ve been incontenent.  I think that’s what you call it.  I looked it up on the internet and it says that all women are if they’ve had even two children.  Well, I love my kids and wouldn’t trade them for anything, BUT I also hate to wear all that stuff that I thought I wouldn’t need any more when I got to a certain age.  Here I was, wearing it all again, and your coffee showed up.  Suddenly I don’t need it any more.  I mentioned it to Dad, and he said, “Oh, it’s that coffee.  I was having to race to the bathroom and if it wasn’t open, I had an accident.  It happened several times.  Now I’m back to being dignified.  I can hold it both ways and it’s getting better every day.” 

    Neither of us want to go back to racing to the bathroom and if it’s occupied going into the shower room with a tin can to take care of the problem until the bathroom is free.  Get over here with the next box of coffee or we’ll both loose our dignity again.  It’s too precious to loose if we don’t have to.

    Remember you’re “the coffee lady”.

Love, Mom

Want to try a box? Or just get a sample? The links are in the sidebar.

She wrote about her problem in her myspace blog today, and almost instantly had more than 40 comments. Most of them were advice on how to lose weight, which seemed rather cruel, since she had written that she had already tried most everything.

Anyway, I was reading all these people’s opinion on how to lose weight, and was interested that several of the posts mentioned that your body gets used to a certain exercise, and then after your metabolism adjusts to it, you won’t lose weight. The answer is supposedly to vary the kind of exercise you do. Run or walk three times a week and do weight lifting of some sort the other days, for instance.

Another post mentioned varying the intensity as you go. It suggested walking for 3 minutes, and then running for 1 or 2, then walking again. The change in intensity triggers something that increases fat burnage perhaps? (Is ‘burnage’ a word? I didn’t think so. Oh well.)

Anyway, all this to say, that even though it was midnight, I picked myself up and walked the 1 kilometer to the grocery store. Getting there was fun. I walked for 3 minutes and ran for 1. It took three sets to get there, and I bought the groceries. Oops. I had forgotten I would have to carry them home!

I put one 2 liter bottle of water in each bag and took one in each hand. Well, they had talked about weight training, here it was! It took nine tenths of forever to get home, and now I can’t lift my arms higher than my waist. Oh, well, I’m on my way to bed. Maybe they’ll be better in the morning.

One thing everyone seems to know about in Japan is the Reishi mushroom. Scientific name Ganoderma Lucidum. It’s a bright red mushroom from China that has an old and mystical history. It’s listed in the oldest medical manual in China (200BC) as the king of herbs, and is said to have the power to heal diseases, restore youth, and prolong life. On pain of death, the only people allowed to benefit from this very rare natural phenomenon were kings and nobles.

Modern science has confirmed that Reishi really does have some remarkable qualities. It contains elements that have been known to help fight a variety of cancers, and also:

1. Rejuvenates at a cellular level
2. Promotes feeling young and alert
3. Reduces fatigue – both mental and physical
4. Supportw and modulates the immune system
5. Promotes restful sleep
6. Improves overall performance

Most people here know about Reishi, but not many people take it. It’s horribly expensive, and tastes awful.

This is the secret ingredient that’s in the healthy coffee I gave my mom and dad.  I just took a box to a lady who has nervous hives from tip to toe. It’s going to be interesting to see how she is doing next week.

Hey, I haven’t written about my dad yet. He’s 73. Still pastors a church in a foreign language, and works daily doing construction for our church’s camp. He had bypass surgery last year, and has been…well….shall we say, limp ever since. He goes to camp to work, and really does amazing things. He cuts down the trees, cuts them into boards, and planes them into lumber, then uses the lumber for the cabins.

But lately, he comes home too tired to shower or eat, and just collapses on the couch until late, then cleans up and drags himself off to bed. That is until the other day, when my mom started giving him healthy coffee. I was over at their house the first time he came home after drinking the coffee. It was an even more dramatic change than my mom. He climbed out of his little pickup with his back straight, his head held high, his eyes bright, and a spring in his step.

I went off to do some errands, and stopped by on my way home. They were baking bread together. Mom was forming rolls, and dad was greasing the pans. I could hear their happy chatter before I even opened the door.

A couple of days later he was at my house to do all my little errands I had been waiting forever for. He put together a kitchen shelf, and rewired a light in the bedroom, then went racing out the door to teach a Bible study.

Powerful stuff, that healthy coffee. I’m off to make myself a cup.

Ever heard of “Billy’s Bootcamp”? It’s an intense excercize program. There are 7 days worth of videos, and if we do one a day, we are supposed to loose a ton of weight. Possible? Not! I’m just not strong enough, so here’s what I’ve been doing. I started at just 5 minutes. We all know that the first part of an excercize session is stretches, and the last part is a cool down, so I did two and a half minutes of the first, and then jumped to the last two and a half minutes. That I could do. Then I started adding a couple minutes each day.

Amazing. Now I’m up to 24 minutes of day one. I never thought I’d be able to do even that much. It really does change one’s outlook on life to be doing some serious moving. No weightloss yet, but I think it will come.