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The human body functions properly when it’s slightly alkaline because a slightly alkaline body's blood can absorb more oxygen, a good supply of which is vital to the cells in producing energy.

Alkalinity is expressed in the term pH, a reference to the measure of dissolved hydrogen present. The human body functions best when the pH levels are maintained in a healthy range (between 7.2 and 7.5) and the various systems in the body work quite hard to maintain this level of alkalinity in the blood. For example, when the pH of the blood falls to an acidic state (below 7.0 pH) the acid waste normally discarded through the body’s elimination routes starts to back up and clog the system.

To counter this, the human body produces a balancing factor of high alkalinity which is sodium bicarbonate (HCO3). Bicarbonate keeps the blood alkaline and various stomach-lining glands produce mucous that has a pH of 7.7 which contains large quantities (up to 0.5 grams a day) of sodium bicarbonate.

Alkaline Tide

Blood leaving the stomach is relatively alkaline, rich in bicarbonates and short of chloride. This alkaline tide circulates around the body where its raised alkalinity helps to reduce any acidosis that has built up.

In 1996 Dr. Lynda Frassetto of the University of California, San Francisco, published a paper showing how bicarbonate levels in human blood vary with age. The average bicarbonate level is fairly constant until the age of 45, after which it noticeably begins to decline. (This is the age when symptoms of diabetes, arthritis, hypertension, osteoporosis and cancer start to appear.) As the bicarbonate level declines, the acidity of the bloodstream rises and it’s this major swing in the acidity of diet that dramatically shortens life.

Bringing it up to date

In the last 20 years the consumption of sugar in all its forms has skyrocketed and its consumption continues to rise. Sugar is very acid forming and in order to counter this acidic tide, the bicarbonate system, which normally balances a low sugar intake, is forced into overdrive and brought close to continual exhaustion.

Faced with a system where it is essential to maintain a level of reasonably high alkalinity in order to be healthy, the human body adopts a fall-back mechanism. This mechanism involves shunting acidic toxins into fat which it then deposits in what to the circulation system are outlining regions. These are regions where there is a fairly low blood circulation and virtually no mechanical squeezing. In other words, not on the joints but in those areas of the body which aren’t subjected to much mechanical movement. In this way, fat and, particularly, cellulite build up on and around the buttocks, on the thighs, on the upper arm up to the shoulder, around the waist and on the flanks.

Cellulite is a symptom of this process and is particularly hard to shift if you maintain a diet of high acidity.

Nowadays, with highly processed and deoxygenated foods, sweeteners added to practically everything and a diet with little or no raw food involved, we are 30 years into an epidemic of obesity, one of the most embarrassing aspects of which is cellulite.

Even very young children are presenting with cellulite and this is almost entirely caused by the damaging levels of brominated and artificially sweetened soft drinks and their dependence on wheat-based products which are stripped of almost all their vitamins during processing.

The answer to cellulite.

It’s highly unlikely in the normal course of the day you would be able to avoid foods which have added sugar, foods which have been de-oxygenated and foods which have been de-vitaminised. Therefore, the only way to counter the acidic surge in modern diet is to remove it from the system using a recently discovered and developed super nutrient which is charcoal. This charcoal, the best example of which is contained in Toxin Buster natural charcoal capsules, has the unique ability to adsorb over 4,000 different acidic toxins. It binds these toxins to itself in the gut which prevents them from contaminating the bloodstream, allowing it to maintain a much healthier pH. This function assists the ability of the bloodstream to absorb vital oxygen supplies which are then circulated around the body and used as fuel in all of our living processes in the cells.

By adsorbing acidic toxins, Toxin Buster capsules taken regularly (one three times a day) are capable of helping to maintain the correct acid-alkaline balance in the body and to slowly but surely reduce the “toxic reservoirs” of fat held beneath the skin as cellulite.

Finally, to address the causes of obesity and, particularly, cellulite, these are indisputably wheat, sugar and bromine. For full background information on these, please reference “Wheat Belly”, by William Davis M.D. (No. 1 New York Times best seller); the reference to bromide on page 64 of the book “Super Slim” by Keith Foster, FLS and for sugar, reference “Food and Folly” on page 34 of the same book.

You’ll be amazed what the modern diet is doing to you and you’ll become considerably slimmer much faster as well as losing your cellulite if you cut out sugar, wheat and bromide from your diet.

Cellulite is nature’s warning!

A Spark in the Dark
On the face of it there is nothing reassuring about wildfires. As I write this, they are devastating the lands of Indonesia, destroying forests and countless species of wild animals, as well as driving people from their homes. Yet they leave behind an incredible substance renowned in history for its healing powers. This commonly known compound, charcoal, has been used by man and beast alike for possibly thousands of years. Charcoal is one of the most powerful antidotes known to man, and as grimy as it may appear, this very ordinary material can purify your system like no man-made medicine can.

Albeit a remnant of an incredibly destructive power, there is nothing remotely dangerous about charcoal. Quite the contrary, it is a life saver. Still today a charcoal drink is the go-to treatment in emergency rooms after a suspected overdose or poisoning. Centuries’ worth of evidence speaks of the many beneficial qualities of charcoal. It is natural, safe, non-toxic and relieves several ailments including drug overdose¹, poisoning¹¹, stomach disorders¹¹ and high blood cholesterol¹². One study carried out using rat models even suggests the ability of charcoal to increase the lifespan of mammals by 43%¹³.

Purposefully Eating Dirt?!
Charcoal may be as unappetizing as a substance can be, however, eating non-food materials such as charcoal and clay is a practice that can be observed throughout the world. The purpose of this seemingly unnatural behavior can actually be explained scientifically. Since ancient times, animals and humans have relied on charcoal to counteract the ill-effects of harmful materials that have been ingested, intentionally or otherwise. This is especially valid for wild animals and ancient peoples who had to depend upon limited food resources. The diet of charcoal-eating animals includes a variety of plants that contain a high amount of phenolic and other harmful compounds that interfere with their digestion. Studies have confirmed that ingested charcoal render these toxins harmless once inside their guts.

During one experiment, scientists found that feeding activated charcoal to goats increased their intake of juniper, a plant that contains a toxic terpenoid. Goats love to eat juniper but this plant toxin limits them from eating it. Researchers fed juniper to twenty goats over the course of ten days. Ten of these goats were given a daily dose of activated charcoal. At the end of the trial period, results indicated that those ten goats who were given the charcoal treatment could tolerate more juniper than the goats who did not receive the treatment¹⁷.

Natural Instincts
Animals knew the medicinal properties of charcoal before man and many species of wild beast are known to eat charcoal resulting from bonfires or lightning strikes¹. Many scientific studies exist to confirm these observations, the most quoted case of this phenomenon is of the Red Colobus monkeys on  Zanzibar Island in Africa², which is the only primate other than humans that is reported to demonstrate this  behaviour. However, many other animal species dwelling in natural habitats, including deer, wild ponies, camels¹ and Okapis³ have been known to eat charcoal. Many domestic animals and birds such as dogs, cats, horses and chicken are also known to eat charcoal at times.

Age Old Wisdom
Our prehistoric ancestors have also been discovered to follow this unusual practice of eating charcoal. Fossilized excretions of the Neanderthals have been found to carry traces of ingested charcoal, and there is evidence to believe that Native American Indians used ground charcoal mixed with water as a remedy for digestive disorders¹. Aborigines were reported to use charcoal powder to heal their wounds¹⁵. The first recorded history of consumption of charcoal for medicinal uses dates back as far as 1500 BC⁴. Egyptian papyri reveal the use of charcoal to treat decaying wounds and intestinal disorders⁴. Records of Hippocrates and Pliny in 400 BC also provide information on the use of charcoal to treat a variety of diseases including epilepsy and anthrax. These accounts - both anecdotal and otherwise - sparked an interest in the medicinal properties of charcoal amongst the modern scientific community⁴.

They Bet their Lives on It!
Determined to prove the antidotal power of charcoal, two French scientists did just that! One is M.  Bertrand, a French chemist who in early 1813, swallowed charcoal along with Arsenic trioxide - a deadly poison. So strong was his faith in the detoxification power of charcoal that he believed charcoal would help him survive the lethal effects of poison. And survive he did⁷.

The second scientist was one Pierre Fleurus Touery, again French, who performed as daring a  demonstration before the French Academy of Medicine in 1852. He gulped down an equally lethal poison, strychnine mixed with charcoal. Despite the fact that he swallowed an amount ten times higher than the lethal dose, he survived the stunt unscathed⁷.

However, it took almost another decade for charcoal to be accepted widely by the medical practitioners as a ‘universal antidote”⁶. A review published in the Journal of Paediatrics in 1963 named ‘The black bottle’ by Holt et al owns the credit for that⁹. Since then the reputation of charcoal as a remedy for toxin ingestion has been spreading like wildfire – excuse the pun!

Charcoal, a Block of Black Magic
Being chemically inert, the therapeutic capacity of charcoal solely depends upon its ability to physically trap other substances. Due to its elemental nature, charcoal can bind to other compounds including various toxins, organic materials, gases, and even microorganisms.

The Science Behind the Magic
A piece of charcoal may look and feel solid in your hands. Yet it posesses a labyrinth of microscopic pores and tunnels that are invisible to the naked eye. When a piece of carbon-rich material - usually wood - is burnt at a temperature as high as 1000 degrees Celsius, all of its components except carbon turn into vapour. The high pressure building-up inside the solid material drives these vapours out, leaving behind a carbon skeleton that is highly porous. Once within our body, charcoal binds with toxin particles forming a stable toxin-charcoal complex. This complex is larger than the microscopic channels in the gut walls through which the free toxin particles would easily pass. Therefore the absorption of toxins through gut membranes is restricted. Since the foreign particles are safely concealed within the pores of the charcoal structure, they do not get a chance to harm our tissues. This in turn prevents enzymes reacting upon the toxins thus eliminating the risk of poisons being metabolised and harming the liver tissues.

The following illustration will help you understand this better. Since our bodies cannot absorb nor break down charcoal, it is then excreted through our stools along with the toxins they are carrying⁵. As a result, the poisons are safely driven out of our systems before they get a chance to harm us. The porous nature of the charcoal structure increases the surface area available for
adsorption thereby enhancing the rate and capacity of detoxification by many folds. A piece of charcoal can adsorb up to two hundred times its own weight¹ in toxic and pathogenic material! Charcoal acts as a powerful oxidising agent as well. It contains a large amount of oxygen within the microscopic holes of the carbon structure¹⁴.

These oxygen molecules react with most foreign materials oxidising and converting them into harmless matter. This property is particularly useful in nullifying toxins found in our gut.

Antimicrobial properties of charcoal are well known as well. Charcoal can arrest and suppress disease-causing bacteria, fungi and viruses. While the widest use of charcoal as an antimicrobial is in water purification, we can safely assume that it will do the same thing inside our systems.

Artificially 'Activated' (Medicinal) versus Naturally 'Active' (or Potentised)
Natural charcoal remaining after the forest fires was what healed ancient men and animals. Looking back at the evidence piled up throughout the centuries, one can hardly doubt its effectiveness. The modern  man however, driven by the desire to make everything better and fast, has found ways to “activate” a substance already active. “Activated” charcoal is produced by treating charcoal with steam, hot air or chemicals. This treatment eats away the carbon structure, increasing the number of pores in the process. This results in a greater surface area for adsorption. The more pores there are the more
activated the charcoal is. Accordingly we can now find activated and superactivated charcoal on the market.

Super Powers Turned Bad
These “activated’ and “superactivated” charcoals claim to have such super adsorptive powers that they can rapidly trap greater amounts of materials. This claim is true. These greedier versions of benign ‘natural’ charcoal can arrest more toxins in lesser time. But there is a catch. Adsorptive action of this charcoal is non-selective; meaning that it cannot tell apart a vitamin molecule from a toxin. Therefore they will remove not only toxins but most of the essential nutrients such as minerals and vitamins as well. They will also damage those friendly microbes in our gut who help us with digestion and disease control. You can thank their so-called “super power” for that!

Natural is Best
Of course this doesn’t mean that you have to hunt down pieces of natural charcoal after a wildfire. Now you can find a purer form of naturally active charcoal in a more appealing package. Toxin Buster™ charcoal capsules contain pure hardwood charcoal which is produced in a more methodical manner and which has been potentised using a special process unique to our supplier. They are gentler than the commercial “activated” charcoal and safer for long term, daily use. This naturally active charcoal works at a more natural pace with the body, thus supporting and not supressing your immune system. You can use it daily without experiencing any short or long term side effects.

Choose pure natural hardwood charcoal to detox safely, gently, daily.

For an Introductory Discount on Toxin Buster™ Enter Code FB1211TBP

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Natural charcoal has many beneficial properties not least of which is its capability to adsorb over 4,000 different toxins and remove these from the body.

Natural charcoal is made by baking wood in a process which drives off all of the oxygen and most of the nutrients contained in the sap. Once burnt and in its almost pure carbon form, natural charcoal is very oxygen hungry and re-adsorbs huge amounts of oxygen once exposed again to the air.

There are hundreds of reasons why eating charcoal (or swallowing the capsules) is so good for you, here are just a few:

1. Charcoal is made up of a vast number of pores and crevices, so much so that a 1cm cube would fold out to cover a tennis court! This makes it highly adsorbent and means that it can bind a wide range of toxic substances within its structure removing them from living systems. This binding capability is brought about by van de Waal forces (electro-magnetic forces on the surface of the charcoal) and in producing our specialist charcoal Toxin Buster, we have developed a method of enhancing these forces. This method is rather akin to potentising developed by Hahnemann in his explorations of homeopathy and it renders our Toxin Buster charcoal significantly more adsorbtive than other natural charcoals on the market.

2. At this juncture it is worth mentioning that this is nothing like the method used to produce activated charcoal which is usually made up of coconut shells cooked at extremely high temperatures and then acid washed to produce a very strong filter material. In our opinion this activated charcoal should not be used in mammalian systems over a longish period since it is thought to compete with nutrients at the cell wall.

3. Made from very high quality hardwood (as opposed to coconut shells) our Toxin Buster charcoal is made from one of the hardest woods available in the world.

In fact, the wood that we use to produce our potentised Toxin Buster natural charcoal comes from an absolutely pristine source that has never come into contact with any man-made chemicals. The source we use is of paramount importance since the wood comes from a renewable crop of substantial density with very deep roots. The importance of the deep roots is that these draw up into the bio-mass a number of trace elements which are vital to mammalian health. These infinitesimally small quantities of essential mineral supplements remain in our charcoal after it has been processed and give to Toxin Buster an added "kicker" which makes it unique.

As you probably know, much of the world's surface has been over-farmed and had NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorous, and Potash (Potassium)) chemicals added to it over a longish period to enable frequent cropping. This frequent cropping has leached many of the trace elements, required for full good health, from the soil and this is something which the use of our unique charcoal Toxin Buster helps replace.

Defined by the EC as a feed additive, Toxin Buster has of itself no medicinal properties. It does not facilitate any chemical reaction, nor does it take part in any chemical reaction. As a consequence of this, the EC has ruled that our charcoal is a feed additive and as such is highly recommended in situations where a build up of toxins has taken place.

Hardwood charcoal, because it is denser than softwood charcoal, is capable of adsorbing more oxygen. This gives it a marginally higher pH than the softwood charcoal and in highly acidic situations this function is extremely valuable. A great many unfortunate and often ill-defined conditions which are presently treated by pharmaceuticals can respond to a rebalancing of the pH of the system since most of these conditions are at base brought about by over-acidification.

Natural potentised charcoal has been used for thousands of years by our species as an antidote to poison and as a method of calming and improving digestion. Increasingly used in a wide variety of products, our charcoal is the best and safest method/substance you can use to help maintain good health.

For an introductory discount on Toxin Buster 100 or 500 count capsules, use discount code BURNTWOODBLOG15 at checkout today.

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