Colon cleansing

GREEN DOES NOT EQUAL GOOD

Colon health is a big deal here at the Finchley Clinic. We are big on keeping your colon free of toxins and maintaining a healthy population of friendly bacteria; it’s one of the most widely-used ways to promote overall good health.

We also want you to fully understand what you’re getting when you use supplements. After all, it is your body and your health so you should be the one to make informed decisions about what goes into it.

You might have heard a lot about herbal supplements and taking extra fibre to keep your bowels in order. While it is true that a fibre-rich diet is good for your guts, taking fibre supplements might actually do you more harm than good. Herbal supplements can contain toxic contaminants and allergens – and that’s just the side effects. Their intended effects can be directly harmful to your internal health.

Oxy-Powder Colosan and Mag 07

Take psyllium, for example. Widely promoted as a healthy way to cleanse your bowels, it’s been known to cause serious allergic reactions,so it isn’t suitable for everyone. While reactions are fairly rare, psyllium can also result in the exact opposite of its goal by causing new bowel obstructions. Although we don’t doubt that they can provide great results in the right situation, some people, our company director included, find psyllium products to be extremely bloating and constipating even when taken as directed with plenty of water.Ironically, psyllium treatments can actually be very risky for those already suffering from painful constipation. Using psyllium in the long term may also affect your ability to absorb vital minerals such as iron.

Cascara sagrada or buckthorn bark was banned in the US in 2002 for use in laxatives, but still finds its way into bowel cleansers. Like senna, another popular cleanser, buckthorn is a type of anthraquinone – a naturally-occurring but nevertheless harsh compound that irritates your bowels to cause contractions and force a bowel movement. Apart from causing diarrhoea, nausea and a fair amount of physical discomfort, this irritates your colon’s population of healthy bacteria – so you end up with a less healthy gut than you started with.

 

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This is why we usually recommend a mineral colon cleanser like Oxy Powder over and above fibre based products– even though we sell a few of them. It’s an oxygen-based product that uses magnesium oxide compounds to slowly release nascent oxygen into your bloodstream and digestive system. The oxygen creates an environment hostile to harmful anaerobic gut bacteria, but rather than forcing your bowels to move, it simply loosens and breaks down toxic build-up. At the same time, it feeds beneficial aerobic bacteria, to encourage them to multiply and create a healthier, more stable colonic environment.

Many of us fall into the trap of believing that because something is “herbal” or “natural”, it must be good for us. It’s important to stay informed and realise that not everything green is your friend.

Fighting colds and flu

A healthy immune system in Winter

Before I was into all this stuff, I used to get 2-3 colds or flu infections per year, mostly in the winter. Now I rarely get them at all, and if I do, they are so mild I barely notice them. I don’t think there is anything especially amazing about my inherent immunity – it comes down to the products I take. I avoid milk products in the main as they are extremely mucous forming and contribute to catarrhal states, and I take quite a few supplements. But I think my rare contracting of winter viral infections primarily comes down to three core immune supporting products, and if you take them, you will get far fewer, if any winter sniffles too. So here we go with my tips for a healthy immune system all winter.

First take liquid oxygen – Vitamin ‘O’

Liquie Oxygen - For a healthy immune system in winterTrying to be healthy whilst your body is improperly oxygenated is rather like trying to build a house on a swamp. In my opinion, optimal oxygenation is foundational to good health, but especially for warding off winter viruses bacterial and fungal infection. In this newsletter, I can’t go into the level of detail that Ed “Mr Oxygen” McCabe goes into in his seminal 650 page book “Flood Your Body With Oxygen” (you can buy it on Amazon though). All I will say is that taking any of our liquid oxygen products will do wonders for keeping cold’s, flu’s and other virus’s at bay, as well as help you inhibit those candida overgrowth and other dysbiotic micro-organisms that make a nuisance of themselves with so many of us. It’s impossible to say which of the four rival brands we provide is the “best” one – you might as well as ask me which is the “best” variety of apple, or which is the “prettiest” flower. Individual results do vary, and it is possible that if you try more than one, that one will work better for you than another one. However they all aim to do the same thing, which is flood the body with oxygen. Take the oxygen on ongoing basis – not just a few weeks – and countless health benefits will arise including the inhibition of winter time viremia.

A word of warning

Those that dabble do not get good results. This seems to happen particularly frequently with the liquid oxygen products for some reason. So don’t waste your time phoning us to tell us they didn’t work, only to then mention “Well actually, I kept forgetting to take it” or “I took it now and then”. It’s amazing how many people tell us it “didn’t work” when the reality was that they were messing about with it, and it never stood a chance of working.

Second, take Vitamin C – foundational immune support.

After all the the thousands of papers published on the benefits of therapeutic dosages (i.e… at least 1000mg per day) of Vitamin C over the last 50 years for a  healthy immune system, it’s quite amazing that some of the more narrow minded doctors and scientists, are still arguing with us over this one. Like the smoking question, where naturopaths were warning the public that smoking was dangerous as far back as Victorian times, while the conventional medical profession looked on and sneered for literally 100 years, it is quite obvious they have completely lost this argument. So I am going to state here very clearly that I think that more or less everyone benefits from Vitamin C supplementation – beyond what they get in their diet.

How does Vitamin C support the immune system and reduce winter colds and flu?

It does this in several ways, including the boosting of the levels and activity of interferons (antiviral proteins), B-lymphocytes (which produce antibodies), T-lymphocytes (which attack invading organisms directly), or complement it (through an enzymic system that attacks bacteria and viruses). Enhanced T-Lymphocyte function probably results at least partially from Vitamin C’s action in raising prostaglandin E1 levels.

Vitamin C is also a powerful antioxidant nutrient, which means that it can protect us against toxins produced in the body called free radicals. These are implicated as being involved in increased risks of cataracts, arthritis, atherosclerosis, premature aging, and several other more serious pathological states.

Which Vitamin C and how much?

For optimal health, I believe in taking Vitamin C the whole year, without any breaks at all. In the summer 1g (1000mg) per day is enough. In the winter, I recommend 2-3g per day for those whose immune systems are vulnerable. If you are following all the advice in this newsletter and still get a cold (which is much less probable), take 1g every couple of hours. We well quite a few Vitamin C products, and all of them will do the job, but when asked, my opinion is that the best one we provide is our Tapioca Vitamin C (formerly Ultra Pure Vitamin C) 1000mg 90 caps.

Warning

It’s best to take Vitamin C a couple of hours away from any of our liquid oxygen products for optimal results.

Third, take Vitamin D – the sunshine Vitamin

Vitamin D is a vital nutrient for optimal immune function, as shown in study after study. It is primarily sourced from the reaction between ultra violet light from the sun and cholesterol in the skin (yes, cholesterol isn’t all bad, in fact you would be dead without some presence of this substance in your body). In the days when we enjoyed outdoor agrarian or hunter gatherer lifestyles,we wouldn’t have as didn’t badly for uptake for vitamin D as today. In my opinion most people today are vitamin D deficient in winter, and research seems to be demonstrating that this is one of the big causes of increased risks of getting colds and flu’s.

Even conventional medicine is largely on our side on the deficency question. On the NHS web site, surprisingly, it states that ” A 2007 survey estimated that around 50% of all adults have some degree of vitamin D deficiency.” An American study reported that 32 percent of children and adults throughout the US were vitamin D deficient. However we think both of these are gross underestimates because the recommended minimal levels of Vitamin D that these surveys are based on are ludicrously low.

We think that Dr Joseph Mercola, a conventionally trained doctor who has ‘gone natural’ is getting much closer to the truth where he estimates that 95% of elderly people are vitamin D deficient “not only because they tend to spend a lot of time indoors but also because they produce less in response to sun exposure (a person over the age of 70 produces about 30 percent less vitamin D than a younger person with the same sun exposure)”. However I would go even further by saying in my opinion, if you live in northern Europe and work indoors, your vitamin D levels are probably significantly sub-optimal for ideal immune function, almost all the time but more so in winter, no matter what age you are.

Vitamin D and colds or flu

In the largest and most nationally representative studof its kind to date, involving about 19,000 Americans, people with the lowest vitamin D levels reported having significantly more recent colds or cases of the flu — and the risk was even greater for those with chronic respiratory disorders like asthma. (Reported in the The Journal Of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine February 3, 2009; 169(4) 384-390) At least five additional studies also show an inverse association between lower respiratory tract infections and vitamin D levels. Clearly Vitamin D is important for a healthy immune system.

 

Which Vitamin D product to take?

Almost any Vitamin D product would be better than nothing, and our full list of such products is found here. However vitamin D works synergistically with Vitamin K2 (this is NOT the same as Vitamin K1, which is derived from green leafy vegetables) for its benefits to be most efficiently realised. For this reason, of the various Vitamin D products we provide, I believe the best one, , is Vitamin D3 5,000iu with Vitamin K2 – 90 tablets. This also happens to be our highest strength one. The government RDA for Vitamin D is 200iu per day, which in my view is ridiculously low. If you are serious about boosting your immune system, rather than taking the minimum amount to avoid dropping dead, you need to take one per day of this product. (Children can take it with less frequency, to get to an equivalent amount relative to their weight compared to an adult).

Is Vitamin D safe?

It has been claimed that taking Vitamin D is potentially toxic, but is this really true?

Vitamin D is normally measured in i.u.’s which stands for International Units.

Perhaps the screen shot on the left from a lecture I watched recently on Vitamin D on YouTube will help you make up your mind. Remember our highest strength vitamin D product contains 5,000 i.u. per tablet – not 7 million i.u.!

It has also been suggested that taking over 40,000 units per day for more than three months is potentially toxic, but even this seems to be an exaggeration. I have seen other research showing that Vitamin D was not shown to be toxic even on as high a dosage as 75,000iu’s taken every day on a long term basis. It also seems illogical because the body can naturally produce up to 30,000i.u’s in the summer just from 30 minutes of sunbathing!In the winter time in the UK, the sun’s angle to the horizon is too low to produce Vitamin D even if you were outside all day and the sunning is shining. Nonetheless I do not recommend taking amounts higher than 5-000 to 10,000i.u’s per day, which still keeps things vastly lower than any estimates of the toxicity threshold.

In another video found on YouTube, Dr. Kate Rheaume-Bleue claims that vitamin D when combined with K2 has no known toxicity on any dosage. That’s because vitamin D ‘toxicity’ is not really toxicity at all, but an increased requirement for Vitamin K2 when Vitamin D is taken. ‘Toxicity’ occurs if there isn’t enough Vitamin K2 in the body for Vitamin D to function appropriately in the body – and even then you would need to take a ludicrous dosage for this to occur.

The big three for a healthy immune system – Liquid Oxygen – Vitamin C – Vitamin D

So those are my big three. It is true that many other products can also be used to prevent or shorten a cold or flu – such Colloidal Silver, Zinc, Selenium, Cat’ Claw, Pau d’Arco (Lapacho), Echinacea Cold Flu Relief, and quite a few others, found here.  As always I have only scratched the surface of what I would like to say, but if you follow these steps, I am confident you will get a lot less colds and flu’s this winter.

The next newsletter is going to on natural pain relief…

Mark G. Lester

Director – The Finchley Clinic Ltd

www.thefinchleyclinic.com

Threelac and Fivelac

Threelac price back to £38.75 from midnight

Threelac price
Threelac

Threelac price to return to £38.75

The threelac price will be going back to £38.75 from midnight tonight. This ends our special sale price which began on 1st January. However we continue to offer a special threelac price with up to 20% off on volume orders. Also, we refuse to let anyone provide a better threelac price than us, and we will continue to monitor the internet, ebay and Amazon, and will immediately price match or beat any price we see that’s better than ours. Buy threelac here.

Threelac and Fivelac

Cheap Threelac

 

cheap Threelac
Threelac

Cheap Threelac – special price – Candida Management probiotic

Here at The Finchley Clinic, we refuse to be undersold on Threelac. . Over the New Year, we have spotted Threelac being sold below our price on Amazon. Consequently our price is now only £33.30, which is terrrible for our margins, but an absolute steel for you.

Get cheap Threelac while you can! It may not stay at this price for long. Global Health Trax, the suppliers of Threelac have a minimum price policy on this product. Although price fixing is illegal under EU law,  it is not illegal for GHT, who are an American company, and therefore outside EU jurisdiction to to set a minimum price on Threelac, and refuse our business if we don’t comply.

We on the other hand have made it very clear to GHT that we REFUSE to be undersold by other companies as long if they are not complying. Therefore our cheap Threelac prices will remain where they are while there are other companies underselling the product. If they are made to comply we will, otherwise we will continue to offer the best prices available anywhere within the UK or EU.

So now you know why the cheap Threelac price may go up again at any time to its ‘regular’ price of £38.75.

Threelac is our top selling candida management probiotic from Global Health Trax. We were the first and original UK seller back in the early 2000’s , and we are still the biggest. Shipping methods available for Threelac: 2nd class, 1st class, Next Working day 9.30-5.30,  Next Working Day before 10am, Airmail, International Signed For, Courrier.

Threelac combines well with Oxygen Elements Max or Oxylift, and where gut problems are involved,  Active Digestive Enzymes.  A colon cleansing product sich as Oxy-Powder or Colosan also makes an invaluable contribution to candida cleansing, as well as preventing ‘die-off’.

Colon cleansing, Detoxification

Clean Your Colon!

Clean Your Colon

Clean Your Colon
Clean Your Colon

If you have over indulged on food and drink over Christmas, this is the time to clean your colon using an Oxygen Colon cleanser for detoxing, and to get rid of that bloating around your tummy. You might also want to think about supporting your liver if your health is off-track.

Preventing colds and flus

This is the time of year when every other person seems to be getting colds and flu’s. However I almost never get colds, and when I do, they are incredibly mild these days. I am not naturally super healthy – it’s because I follow the following steps to support inhibit pathogens and support my immune system. You can do the same, and say goodbye to winter colds.

First, you should supplement with any of our liquid oxygen products.  Virus’s hate our Liquid Oxygen products! So if you just did one thing through the winter to prevent colds and flu’s, this would be your starting point. But remember to take it persistently – as opposed to when you be bothered, or if you happen to remember, which not surprisingly leads to very poor results. By the way, the liquid oxygen is also extremely valuable in the fight against candida overgrowth, being anti viral as well as anti fungal.

 

Secondly supplement with Vitamin C – Our Ultra Pure Vitamin C is probably the best of our selection of Vitamin C products. Take 1-2 capsules every day, at least a couple of hours away from when you take the Oxygen. If you do go down with a cold, you can take one capsule every 2 hours to get rid of it fast!

Zinc has also been shown to be useful in many studies both for preventing colds and supporting the immune system generally. We provide a number of zinc products, but the one I personally use is Zinc Gluconate with Vitamin B6 (the B6 assists the absorbtion of zinc). Whole books are available on the benefits of zinc supplementation for a whole raft of health challenges, more than can be ventured into in a short newsletter, and some of our older customers may remember that this has been the subject of previous newsletters in the past.

Thirdly, take Vitamin D, which is incredibly important for the entire immune system. Unfortunately, almost everyone living in Norther Europe is Vitamin D deficient at this time of year, and dark skinned people who who absorb vitamin D much more slowly than white Europeans (from the reaction between ultra violet light from the sun on the skin and cholesterol), are nearly always Vitamin D deficient the entire year! The Recommended Daily Allowance for Vitamin D is a pitiful 200iu per day, but my opinion is that this is utter nonsense. In the summertime, 30 minutes exposure to the sun enables the body to produce 10,000-20,000iu’s per day – in other words up to 50 times more than the EU Recommended Daily Allowance. So why is the Daily Allowance so low? There are proposals incidentally, coming from the unelected wastes of taxpayers money know as the EU, ever influenced by the vested interests of big pharma to limit your the legal availability of Vitamin D supplements to the pathetic 200iu I just spoke about. Anyway, whilst this has not occurred, I recommend 1-2 tablets per day of Vitamin D3 5,000iu with Vitamin K2. The Vitamin K2 is added as Vitamin D works synergistically with K2. Oh by the way, you may have read that Vitamin D is ‘toxic’ in high dosages somewhere or other. Well, It is true that 40,000iu given daily to rats has been shown to be toxic and can kill them. Extrapolated to humans, that’s around 10,000,000 (10 million) iu’s per day required to kill a human. According to one leading researcher, Vitamin D is not toxic on any dosage if it is taken together with Vitamin K2. Anyway, since I am recommending 5,000-10,000 and not 10,000,000 units per day (and this is what I take for around 8 months of the year), I don’t think I am likely to be pushing up daisies any time soon as a result of my Vitamin D intake, and somehow I suspect you won’t either.

As always I have only scratched the surface of what I would like to say, but if you follow these steps, I am confident you will get a lot less colds and flu’s this winter.

Best wishes for a wonderful New Year

Mark G. Lester

Director – The Finchley Clinic Ltd

www.thefinchleyclinic.com

 

 

Colon cleansing

Mag 07 Oxygen Cleanse New Kid on the block?

Mag 07 Oxygen Cleanse
Mag 07 Oxygen Cleanse

Mag 07 Oxygen Cleanse is the newest product in our colon cleansing range. For a long time, Oxy-Powder and Colosan have been our two primary magnesium based Oxygen Colon Cleansers. Customers report that they have helped them with their candida overgrowth, energy levels, bloating, gas, constipation, intestinal cramping / discomfort etc. Both products are pretty similar, but not infrequently we get customers who tell us that one works better for them than the other one – sometimes its been Oxy-Powder – sometimes its been Colosan. Occasionally we also get people report that they respond extremely well initially, but then the effects seem to gradually diminish. We call this effect ‘habituation’. And in this situation it has proven useful to have an additional product which we can recommend. We have found that alternating betweeen the two brands has been very useful at preventing habituation.

Introducing Mag 07 Oxygen Cleanse

More recently, we have taken on a third kid on the block, and it’s very competitively priced compared with Colosan and Oxy-Powder. We have been getting equally good feedback on it as we have had with Colosan and Oxy-Powder. We are NOT stating that it is better than the existing products that we sell. What we are stating though is that as with Colosan and Oxy-Powder, individual responses vary, and it is the best one for those that find it is the best one! We are also finding that having a third product to rotate with in order to prevent habituation is very useful in some cases.

The logic behind Mag O7 Oxygen Cleanse relates to the action of probiotics or the friendly bacteria, such as acidophilus, which reside in the healthy human intestine.  These facultative bacteria have a unique method of protecting their territory against the encroachment of anaerobes; they secrete hydrogen peroxide.  Hydrogen peroxide releases oxygen in the ROS form which is far more powerful than atmospheric oxygen. The result is a highly aerobic atmosphere which is inhospitable to anaerobes.  Since many pathogens are anaerobic in nature, they cannot survive in this created aerobic atmosphere.  When the peroxide (oxygen) secreting bacteria have a well established colony in the intestinal tract, is difficult for the anaerobes to establish their own colony.  The result is a healthier digestive system.  Conversely, when the anaerobes have formed a well established colony, they protect their territory against encroachment by the facultative bacteria by secreting toxins.  It is believed that these toxins contribute to colitis and many other intestinal disease.

Mag O7 releases Oxygen in ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species) form that has been shown to :-

  • Act as superior digestive system cleanser and oxygen supplement
  • Fast acting, usually overnight
  • Proven in laboratory tests to release oxygen for over 12 hours
  • The Magnesium in Mag 07 acts as a Stool Softener for those needing this benefit
  • Also the Magnesium acts as a vehicle to transport oxygen through intestinal tract, kidneys and bladder
  • Diminish harmful bacteria and support friendly flora while boosting the Immune System
  • Improve absorption of nutrients from foods and supplement regimes
  • Enhance results from sports nutrition and weight loss  products

Typical customer feedback

I suffer from pretty severe IBS and have tried a lot of regular treatments for it, always with rather disappointing results. However this product has been a godsend! I had pretty good results with Colosan, but Mag 07 has proved much more effective. I can’t recommend it highly enough, it works quickly and relieves the majority of the bloating, trapped wind and general nastiness within about 24 hours.

Mag 07 Oxygen Cleanse is available in the following sizes and formats

Mag 07 Oxygen Cleanse 90 Caps Was £23.99 Now £19.99
Mag 07 Oxygen Cleanse (Pure Vegan) 120 Caps* Was £29.99 Now £27.99
Mag 07 Oxygen Cleanse 150g Powder Was £29.99 Now £27.99
Mag 07 Oxygen Cleanse 180 Caps Was £34.99 Now £31.99

* All Mag 07 products are vegan, but the Pure Vegan version is guaranteed to be made in a Pure Vegan facility. Meaning that no non vegan ingredients are even allowed on the premises. All Mag 07 and indeed all Aerobic Life products are made in GMP (Good Manufacturing Process) facilities.

What should I combine with Mag 07?

Consider  Aerobic 07, especially if you have candida or fatigue problems.

Aerobic 07
Aerobic 07

You can combine Mag 07 with anything, but you may want to consider its sister product Aerobic O7 to flood the body with nascent oxygen for overall health. While Mag 07 cleanses and oxygenates the colon, Aerobic O7 cleanses the blood and lymph. Aerobic O7 is a dietary supplement:  It is liquid solution of stabilized oxygen with buffers and electrolytes. Also known as stabilised oxygen, which is a non-technical term referring to a solution containing oxygen in the ROS form which is stabilized with buffers so that the product can be bottled without the oxygen being released before it is needed.   The result is a stable compound, containing oxygen in the ROS form, which can be taken as a dietary supplement. Typically used to combat candida and other unwanted micro-organisms, and (by increasing in the body) increasing energy levels.

Oxygen is the most important element for sustaining life on Earth! Without oxygen, life would cease to exist.   The human body is an incredible machine. It is continually working to rid the body of foreign organisms and toxins.  White blood cells fight disease organisms by surrounding, then blasting, the attacking organism with a highly Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS). In the medical literature, this blast is called the respiratory burst.  When our bodies detect the presence of elevated levels of ROS it assumes that we are under microbial attack. This prompts our bodies to produce more white blood cells to help with the fight.  As white blood cells increase in number, the disease causing organisms can more easily be destroyed.  ROS, when taken in supplement form (AEROBIC 07) can work in much the same way, helping the body to maintain its defences.

Aerobic 07 – 30ml Only £11.99!
Aerobic 07 – 70ml Only £17.99!

Finally…want to get a discount on your next order?

If you haven’t already done this, all you have to do is visit our Facebook page and click on the image at the top that says “Click Like to Reveal Exclusive Discount Code” (you will need a Facebook Account do do this). You can then use this discount code straight away, or whenever you place your next order. The discount code is limited to one use per customer. It has no time limit or expiry date, but we may not keep the discount opportunity open indefinitely. It can be used on any sized order, and it will work cumulatively with any volume discounts which are already available on the web site.

Wishing Good Health To All Our Valued Customers.

Mark G. Lester
Director & General
The Finchley Clinic Ltd –
www.thefinchleyclinic.com

Colon cleansing, Detoxification

Colosan Colon Cleanser – How we began

Colosan Colon Cleanser
Colosan Colon Cleansr

This question was originally going to go on an FAQ page on Colosan Colon Cleanser, but the full answer was so long that it has become an article in itself!

We didn’t originally source Colosan colon cleanser as a natural product for promoting regularity, or as a colon cleanser, even though those are the two most common reasons why the majority of our customers buy this superlative product today. We originally sourced it as an product to improve overall health through improved oxygenation.

Colosan is in essence the product that started the Finchley Clinic Ltd in the late 1990’s. That is to say without Colosan, The Finchley Clinic might never have come into existence as a  company separate from my therapy practise. For a year or two before we sold Colosan, we provided a very similar oxygen therapy product called homozon (often wrongly misspelt as “homozone”, even by companies claiming to be experts on the subject, but clearly not expert enough to know how to spell a product they claim to be experts on!).

Homozon was originally sourced by the company director to accompany his treatments as a natural health practitioner, and at the time he had no intention of this leading to the creation of a successful e-commerce company selling a wide range of oxygen based nutritional supplements, and later on to a full health and nutrition web store.

Unfortunately homozon was very expensive, both at the trade price, and at the best retail price. Not only that but it was quite impossible for us to obtain regular supplies. The final straw came when one shipment took over 8 months to arrive, during which time we received countless feeble excuses as to why the suppliers had not fulfilled our order.

Around this time, we were recommended to provide Colosan Powder by Leeda McCabe and her husband, and Ed McCabe. (Ed being the author of the seminal book ‘Flood Your Body With Oxygen’, which we recommend as the standard textbook for laymen who want to understand more about the importance of oxygen therapy, oxygen products and so on). We bought our first 12 bottles, which unlike Homozon, arrived safely within 10 days of ordering it, then after a few orders, we went up to 144 bottles, then later on began ordering 1000 at a time. By this time we had been appointed the UK and Ireland distributors for Colosan, although we now have a few sub-distributors mostly in the UK, but with a few in other EU countries.

In those days, Colosan Colon Cleanser was only available as a powder. However we received constant complaints from customers about the fact that it wasn’t available in capsules. So after a year or so of fairly persistent nagging by us, the producers eventually agreed to manufacture Colosan in capsules. Colosan powder was and still is better value for money than Colosan capsules (you get over twice as much stuff per bottle if you buy the powder), but despite this, the capsules quite quickly became far more popular than the powder. It’s not that Colosan powder tastes that bad. To be honest, it doesn’t really taste of anything. We would describe Colosan powder as just having a rather vague nondescript chalky kind of taste. Nonetheless a lot of people either couldn’t be bothered to muck about with Colosan powder, or wanted something where they could measure the dosage more accurately. A few people wanted Colosan in capsules claiming that they didn’t like the taste of Colosan powder, but given that Colosan powder barely has any taste, we think the objection was more a psychological repugnance to taking Colosan as a powder than grounded in reality.

Within two years we were selling around 3 x more Colosan Colon Cleanser capsules than Colosan Powder, and that’s been pretty much the proportions ever since. Interestingly though, a lot of the colon hydrotherapy practitioners who refer people to us still recommend the powder instead of the capsules.

Alternatives to Colosan Colon Cleanser.

Oxy-Powder Colosan and Mag 07

These days we sell two more rival brands to Colosan – namely Oxy-Powder (which rather confusingly only comes in capsules despite the word “powder” in Oxy-Powder), and Mag 07, which is available in both capsules and powder. The background to why and when we began selling these products when we already had Colosan are separate stories in themselves.

All three manufacturers claim theirs is the only one that works, which either means two of them are lying, or that individual results vary, and that some people get on best with Colosan, some with Oxy-Powder and some with Mag 07. Our experience is that the truth lies with the latter hypothesis – i.e. that individual results vary. Because they are all similar products, quite a few people find that all of them work pretty much the same. However, there are no hard and fast rules, and just as some people find they all have more or less the same effect (the company director being one of them) some people do find that one of them works noticeably better than one of the others. Try them all, and let us know how you get on.

Colosan Colon Cleanser also has a dedicated web site found at www.colosan.co.uk

Threelac and Fivelac

ThreeLac YouTube video transcript

Threelac
Threelac

This is the transcript of a short video I just added to YouTube on ThreeLac sachets and ThreeLac capsules.

My name is Mark Lester and I run The Finchley Clinic. In this video, I am going to talk briefly about ThreeLac.

I am very restricted in what I am allowed to say by EU regulations drafted and implemented by officials who nobody elected, and who we pay a lot of taxpayers money to keep in their jobs. Anyway, enough of politics, let’s concentrate on ThreeLac.

ThreeLac is a friendly bacteria supplement which I introduced around 12-13 years ago supplied by Global Health Trax.

I was the first person selling it anywhere within the EU. I came to know about it because I was selling some other products supplied by the same company at the time. During a conversation with one of their employees, I was told they were getting remarkable feedback from people with candida overgrowth concerns with a new product called ThreeLac. This was before my company, The Finchley Clinic Ltd had been formed and I was just selling a few of their other products privately to patients. I just ordered a few boxes at the time as it was quite expensive, and I wasn’t sure whether anyone would be interested in buying it, or the results would be as good as I was being told.

Surprisingly, my patients at the time were very interested when I shared with them what I had been told about this product, and didn’t hesitate to buy it despite the fairly high cost.

Within a couple of months or so, I began to get very good feedback myself. Many, but not all of the people took ThreeLac alongside an oxygenating product called Oxygen Elements Plus, which today is called Oxygen Elements Max, and this did seem to improve the results further. I could talk about the wonderful health benefits of this product for a lot longer, were it not for the EU regulations I mentioned at the beginning of this video, and the fact that I want to focus on ThreeLac in this video.

Did it work for everyone? No. I would treat claims for any product that it will work for everyone with tremendous suspicion. Did it help a lot of people? Yes. In a few cases people noticed improvement within days. More commonly people started improving after about 4-8 weeks, usually taking 2-3 sachets per day.

Please view our web pages for more information. We are again limited in what we can say, but we do share as much as we can. Please read the FAQ’s too, as most of the questions we get asked are on the FAQ page.

For any customer within the EU, we offer a 60 day money back guarantee on ThreeLac and Oxygen Elements Max if you are not satisfied. There are a few terms though. We do not refund our shipping or processing costs, we do require you to send the unused portion of the product, or even an empty box along, if possible with your original invoice back to our warehouse at your own cost, and we will not refund more than 2 boxes per customer. Nonetheless, it still means that you would be able to get most of your money refunded if you’re not satisfied for up to 2 boxes, which is more than enough to try the product out.

Thank you for listening, and I hope you decide to try it.

Detoxification

ZNatural dosage

ZNatural & heavy metal toxicity
ZNatural & heavy metal toxicity

I was asked a question today about the dosage of ZNatural, and since this question is relevant to a lot of customers, I am going to publish the question and my reply (with the customers name removed).

My question is about Znatural . We live in shanghai most of the year and have done for 3 years with more to go what does would you recommend for us to help combat the extreme pollution ?

Question 2; my mum has general aches and pains fogginess and depression , suspected fibromyalgia – what dose for her ?

Question 3; my dad is type 2 diabetic would it be any good for him and also are there any other products you’d recommend for him and my mum both in 70 s . I’m looking for healthy Xmas presents this year!

Question 4; Any contraindications with other meds on any products you recommend for my parents ?

ZNatural: My reply

Since the concentration of is now double what it was a few years ago, I think that the label ZNatural dosage on the label of 5 drops twice per day is sufficient for most people. However for a faster result you can take a double dosage, so if you want to do that, it will be fine. So I think both you and your mother could take either take the label dosage, or for a stronger and faster result, take double the label dosage.

What concerns me more than the dosage is that this product should be taken for 6 months or 3 months as an minimum. Even though some people will notice benefits within a few weeks, as usual 90% of customers will doubtless ignore me, and expect a miracle in a couple of weeks.

For ‘extreme pollution’, I would probably say Znatural is product #1. But you may want to also consider Burdock formula, which we formulated specifically for full body detox (at some point I will write an article about it), any of the liquid oxygen products, Burbur, and Green Magma.

For your mother, its fine to use the Znatural as a stand-alone product, but you could also consider the same products that I mentioned above for her too, especially the oxygen and green magma. If that doesn’t work, I have other ideas up my sleeve, but its probably best not to load you up with too many ideas, and contact me in the new year if these products are not helping.

Re your father. He should use sucroguard (as per the label) + 1 drop per day of chromium + zinc gluconate with vitamin B6 (2 per day for the first month, then one per day). Monitor blood sugar levels, and expect some improvement (but not a total cure) and medication might be able to be reduced under medical supervision of course.

Re question 4. There are no contraindications of taking ZNatural to the best of my knowledge, but definitely speak to your doctor before usage if there is any doubt in your mind.

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The EU

Herbal Medicine in the EU: The story so far

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Herbal Medicine in the EU: The story so far

Herbs have been part of European folk tradition for thousands of years

But it’s only this century that they’ve become a hot-button political and economic issue. Despite the fact that millions of Europeans have benefited from herbal supplements, vitamins and minerals, about ten years ago the European Union decided to crack down hard on the natural medicine industry. The industry fought hard against the EU Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive, but it eventually came into force in 2004-5. Now firmly established, it’s in the process of being clarified and strengthened – but although the changes could make processes and fees more transparent, insiders fear that further regulation will only serve to strangle the industry.

One of the main issues the industry fought against was the need to pay exorbitant fees – from £80,000 to £120,000 – to have each herbal product individually certified, or risk it being banned. It created two problems: it pushed smaller companies, who couldn’t afford the fees, out of business; and it meant that anything that couldn’t be certified had to be sold as a food product. However, the regulations on food products are very different to those for medicines

Arm-in-arm with the THMPD came the EU Health Claims regulations – incredibly strict and widely disputed policies which led to incidents such as the bottled water controversy. In 2011, after three full years of investigation and spending tens of thousands of pounds’ worth of taxpayer’s money, the European Food Standards Authority decided that bottled water manufacturers were no longer allowed to claim that their product helped to prevent dehydration. The news provoked widespread derision from scientists, politicians and the public, who protested the lunacy of wasting resources on such decisions instead of forming policies that could truly benefit public health.

It was just one example, but combined with the EU Labelling Regulations that had been introduced in 2003, the net effect was that stating a product’s intended purpose on the label became extremely difficult. Consumers now had less access to information about the health benefits of non-medicinal natural products, as labels became ever more obfuscatory to try and get around the rules and still communicate.

There was a grace period of six years, to allow manufacturers to get their products licensed before the law came into full force in 2011. Widely-used herbs like Echinacea, St John’s Wort and valerian passed regulation easily after forking out the cash for their licenses– but as more and more products were pulled from shelves for not complying with regulations, consumers had fewer choices. However, licensed herbalists were exempt from the new regulations. They could prescribe any herbal remedies that weren’t already banned – the problem was that those herbs were quickly disappearing from circulation. Banning a slew of the products which contained them meant there was no demand, so that even after paying fees of up to £100 to see a herbalist and with a prescription in hand, a customer needing a particular herb might still be out of luck. Now, there are rumours that even this compromise is set to be demolished due to pressure from lobby groups.

And even with high demand, some herbs and vitamins looked set to disappear from general sale. The new Directive stated that herbs must have been in use for at least 30 years to be licensed – either 30 years within the EU, or 15 years in the EU and another 15 elsewhere. But as the industry boomed over the years before the crackdown, a groundswell of support for “old wives’ tale” herbs had begun to grow. People had begun to rediscover herbs like Peruvian cat’s claw – used to treat arthritis, diabetes, and stomach problems, but only discovered in the 1970s and still not widely available in the 1990s. There were fears that it was too new to pass regulation; however, it managed to escape the list of banned or restricted herbs. Ephedra, lobelia and poppy capsules were not so lucky: Ephedra sinica, used for weight loss, and lobelia, a treatment for whooping cough, asthma and allergies, can now only be sold by registered pharmacists. Poppy capsules must now be prescribed by a doctor or dentist.

In February this year, the situation looked like it was about to worsen: Food Supplements Europe, representing a group of multinational vitamin and mineral companies, began lobbying the EU to introduce the Food Supplements Directive, setting maximum levels for active ingredients in supplements and vitamins.They cited studies that researched the dangers of overdosing on seemingly harmless supplements – a rare occurrence, given the levels usually contained in herbal products. Compared to the estimated 40,000 people who die every year in Britain as a result of correctly prescribed medication, it seemed slightly ridiculous.

If it goes through, the legislation will hit smaller and medium-sized businesses hard. These companies rely on high-potency products for much of their revenue, since the larger companies don’t sell them. With a maximum level enforced, their customers would have to go the multinational route for their supplements; not only that, but they’d have to buy more to get as much of their supplement as they needed. It was a clear case of a power-grab by the corporations, and it had mum-and-dad herbal companies and their customers outraged.

But the backlash from the health food industry has had an effect. Recently, Germany’s 12-year ban on kava was overturned. The ban was based on fears that the herb, used for soothing anxiety and stress, was toxic to the liver; but a German court decided that the risks were too low to justify the ban, and kava is now back on the market.

Europeans, both native-born and immigrants, have a rich herbal heritage. With the rising popularity of Asian herbal remedies as well as Western supplements, it’s vital that the industry is somehow regulated. In fact, before 2004, it was – by the much less draconian Drugs Act 1968, which served its purpose perfectly well. Europe’s current ultra-strict proposals are not the way to go. The industry needs its smaller businesses for innovation and creativity; it needs a wide range of herbs to cater to consumers’ needs; and it needs fairer regulation to make sure the products it sells are safe and effective. The fight continues.

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