In our new ebook, The Chinese Medicine Weight Loss Solution, you will learn the powerful wisdom that ancient physicians from Asia have passed down through lineages for thousands of years. Additionally, you will learn the core tips and tricks used by real patients to lose weight. Weight loss fads come and go, but to achieve sustainable and lasting weight loss naturally, you need to know the wisdom of ancient China.

Our ebook will teach you the secrets of weight loss that the Chinese have used for thousands of years to stay slim, healthy and full of radiant energy. To learn more about the Chinese Medicine Weight Loss Solution please read this letter I wrote about it to our patients and friends.

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For thousands of years, physicians of Chinese medicine have been helping to keep people healthy. The time tested principles of acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine and massage in addition to nutritional therapy, are not only profound medical modalities for keeping people healthy. They are also sources of powerful healing when people need to lose weight. When a patient needs to lose weight, a physician of Chinese medicine will tailor a specific program customized for that person and their unique diagnosis.

Depending on the presentation of a person, the doctor of TCM might help a patient detoxify, or use herbs to stimulate the body’s ability to metabolize fat. Organic Chinese herbs are particularly useful for the patient who wants to lose weight, because the last thing an overweight person needs is more toxins backing up in their liver. In fact, many people are not even able to lose weight until they detox their liver.

DiaSlim is a unique, organic Chinese herbal formula that utlizes the wisdom of Chinese medicine to help you lose weight.

To lean more about DiaSlim go here.

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In Chinese medical herbalism, which has been practiced for more than 10,000 years continuously in China, Hawthorn Berry is a very popular herb. Hawthorn is the English common name for the botanical species, Crataegus. Crataegus is a member of the rose family, and the trees rarely get taller than 15 feet. Hawthorn trees are common here in western North Carolina, where about 4 species are present. More than 280 varieties of Hawthorn have been cataloged by botanists.

Though the species differ, generally, Hawthorn berries will have similar herbal functions when used medicinally. The Chinese have used the species Crataegus pinnatifida and cuneata for much of their medicinal purposes. The Chinese call Hawthorn berry “Shan Zha.” Shan Zha is categorized as digestive herb, and is used in herbal formulas for weight loss, food stagnation and diabetes, to name a few. The flavonoids, and rich pigments of the berries help with lowering blood lipids and help clear a fatty liver. In accordance with TCM theory, since Shan Sha acts on the liver, spleen and stomach, it also acts on the blood and the heart. Shan Zha is characterized as sweet, sour and slightly warm.

In our synergy 9 herbal formula for weight loss, Dia-Slim, we use the berry of Crataegus laevigata, see in the photo above. The berries of this Hawthorn species have a similar function as those of the Chinese species, while research has also shown a profound benefit on heart health.

Dia-Slim combines the alcohol extracted and water extracted Hawthorn berry for maximal results and effectiveness. Not only does Hawthorn berry help promote weight loss and prevent weight gain, but research shows it lowers cholesterol and protects the heart from atherosclerotic build-up. Also Hawthorn berry is rich in antioxidants and can help oxygenate the blood and reduce inflammation. Because Hawthorn berry is slightly warming, it balances the cooling action of some of the other herbs in Dia-Slim like green tea and bitter melon.

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A recent study published in the journal “Nuerology” indicates that a shrinking brain during aging may be a causative factor in the development of the ravaging effects of Alzheimer’s disease. While the causes of a shrinking brain may elude western scientists now, Chinese medicine describes such processes in terms of a decrease of yin, or vital fluids. The brain is conceived like a storehouse of a vital hydro-electric liquid, which indeed it is. The brain needs proper nourishment as we age. The entire physiological complex of the creation of fluids for intracellular fluids, synovial fluids, cerebrospinal fluids etc. is one integrated system. Digestion must be strong to transform food into utilizable energy and the large intestine must be able to reabsorb water and nutrients into the blood.

So all the processes of making thought from food, or making bone from nutrition, or making water for the brain are connected. The brain in Chinese medicine is associated with the energetic field of the kidneys. The kidneys and will, the mentation of the kidneys, drive the creation of bones, and the process of hearing in Chinese medical thought. The continuum of brain, kidney, thyroid, bone and hearing responds to the ability to generate fluids, what the Chinese call yin. To produce yin, we must be able to transform food and thought. When thought gets backed up or a person has too many “thoughtforms” running through the stage of their mind, the they have not “transformed” that thought. Trans means to go beyond, and form means something substantial. To transform is to go beyond the form.

When a person’s brain is shrinking, they are not transforming their food appropriately and they are not making the yin their body needs to keep their brain well hydrated. There have been some interesting speculations recently about the cerebrospinal fluid of Alzheimer’s patients being acidic. Acidic fluids certainly could cause a shrinking brain. Acidity means that the body is not receiving the right nutrition and that acid wastes are then circulating throughtout the blood. Too much acid wreaks havoc on, guess what? The kidneys. For instance, an excess of uric acid not processed by the kidneys can become gout.

Acid, inflammation and a shrinking brain

So understanding Chinese medicine can help understand this process of a shrinking brain. When the body fluids become acidic, and the body becomes inflamed and inflexible, stiff and with poor circulation, the bones become weak, the muscles atrophy and a brain will shrink.

Using Chinese herbal formulas like Dia-Slim will help your body absorb food better, reduce inflammation and protect the heart, body and brain from inflammation. To learn more about herbal weight loss you can check out this letter I wrote to my friends and patients.

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To use herbs effectively for weight loss, you want to target all of the problems associated with weight gain and body fat. In other words, it is not wise just to use herbs to burn fat. In fact, in Chinese herbal medicine, using herbs singularly was rare, more often masters of herbalism use formulas combining many herbs. You don’t want to just burn fat, you want to also reduce stress levels (cortisol) and reduce inflammation. The best strategy for herbal weight loss is using an herbal formula that targets multiple problem areas for people who need to lose weight.

Our all natural herbal remedy for weight loss, Dia-Slim, synergizes and blends 9 herbs that strike multiple problem areas and multiple causes that contribute to weight gain. For instance, the green tea in Dia-Slim helps the body burn fat, while the cinnamon helps balance blood sugar while also burning fat. The hawthorn berry helps the heart and benefits circulation, while the turmeric reduces inflammation. Gymnema helps to short circuit sugar cravings and breaks your brain’s addiction to sugar and carbohydrate cravings. The tangerine peel prevents weight gain and reduces atherosclerosis.

So to effectively target weight loss with herbs, you wan to use a synergistic approach. We here at TCM Nutra, call the Dia-Slim formula “synergy 9″:

1. Burn fat by increasing metabolism=green tea, astragalus

2. Short circuit sugar cravings=gymnema

3. Balance blood sugar=bitter melon, gymnema, cinnamon

4. Reduce stress hormones (cortisol)=astragalus, atractylodes

5. Reduce inflammation= turmeric

6. Protect the heart improve circulation=hawthorn

7. Reduce cholesterol and triglycerides=tangerine peel, cinnamon, green tea, gymnema, bitter melon

8. Tonify the adrenal glands=astragalus, atractylodes

9. Increase energy and motivation=atragalus, atractylodes, green tea

For herbal weight loss and for losing weight naturally, the herbal remedy Dia-Slim is a powerful choice. To learn more about how Dia-Slim can help you go here.

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Atractylodes is one of the most important and prominent herbs in Chinese herbal medicine and has been used for more than 2,000 years in Asia. The herb is an energy enhancing herb or a qi tonic and can help reduce a person’s appetite if it is too strong and increase metabolism if some has a weak basal metabolic rate. If can help those with water accumulation or edema by drying the dampness and increasing urinary output. As a qi tonic, Atractylodes is often used in formulas to enhance energy. Interestingly it is also has been used to restrain excessive perspiration in people who tend to sweat too much or too easily.

In DiaSlim, our 9 herb formula for weight loss, Atractylodes help promotes natural weight loss by tonifying the spleen and pancreas and increasing metabolism. It will help reduce the appetite in someone whose appetite is too strong, but it can increase the appetite if an appetite is too weak, meaning that the person is not absorbing the nutrition from their food. It can help balance water metabolism and reduce excess water weight, while also helping to burn fat.

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Nobiletin is a flavonoid found in the peel of the tangerine fruit. Dr. Murray Huff, from the University of Western Ontario, just published research in the journal Diabetes, adding weight to the growing proof that extracts of tangerine peel can not only prevent obesity and type II diabetes, but even prevent atherosclerosis.

Murray Huff, a vascular biology scientist at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, said: “The Nobiletin-treated mice were basically protected from obesity. And in longer-term studies, Nobiletin also protected these animals from atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaque in arteries, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke. This study really paves the way for future studies to see if this is a suitable treatment for metabolic syndrome and related conditions in people.”

Chinese medicine has used tangerine peel, the main source of nobiletin, for thousands of years in formulas used to treat obesity, phlegm related conditions, digestive disorders and even coughs.

This new research is really exciting to us here at TCM Nutra. We knew that tangerine peel contained nobiletin and that it was an important contribution to our herbal formula for weight loss, DiaSlim, but we did know realize how powerful nobiletin actually is for prevention. Prevention is the core focus of our program, The TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) Weight Loss Solution, of which, DiaSlim is a part. DiaSlim is a 9 herb formula for natural weight loss and blood sugar regulation that includes tangerine peel extract and thus nobiletin.

To Check out the research in the online edition of the journal Diabetes, go here. And for a great article in Obesity News, go here.

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Recent research from the University of Western Ontario, in Canada, is shedding more light on some of the reasons why the Chinese have used tangerine peel for centuries to treat conditions like obesity, blood sugar problems and diabetes. Dr. Murray Huff, the principal investigator, had previously isolated a chemical from grapefruit called naringenin and found that the flavonoid was a very good preventative for obesity and metabolic syndrome.  Metabolic syndrome, also called syndrome x, metabolic syndrome x, cardiometabolic syndrome and CHAOS in Australia, is a combination of medical disorders that greatly enhance the likelihood of heart disease and diabetes. It is estimated that 25% of the US population is in a stage of metabolic syndrome.

Dr. Huff’s recent research focused on tangerines. After isolating a flavonoid called nobiliten from the tangerine peel, the researchers added it to the diet of mice used in the study. Mice fed high levels of sugar and carbohydrates who did not ingest the tangerine peel extract developed metabolic syndrome, gained fat tissue and developed diabetes. However, the group of mice that were fed nobiliten with their food did not develop diabetes, did not gain fat, and they did not develop fatty livers and the concurring high cholesterol that goes along with a fatty liver.

One of the astounding findings was that nobiletin, a pigment only found in the peel of the tangerine, was 10 times more effective at preventing weight gain and metabolic syndrome than the pigment found in grapefruit called naringenin.

If tangerine peel is so effective for weight loss, why haven’t more studies been done? It is an important question. If you look at the amount of money that it takes to do considerable research, the reason becomes obvious. Though tangerine peel has long been used in Chinese herbal medicine for weight loss, there has been no economic incentive for companies to study the fruit because the only people who stand to make money from it are small herbal companies, like TCM Nutra and others, and the growers of the tangerines. Hopefully, research on effective herbs like tangerine peel will continue to get the media attention it deserves.

Tangerine peel is one of the 9 herbal ingredients in our herbal remedy for weight loss, DiaSlim. When we were doing research for our herbal formula for weight loss, DiaSlim, we knew that nobiliten was a prominent flavonoid in the peel, and that is was effective for weight loss, but we did not know that nobiliten was responsible for such dramatic prevention of weight gain and the other problems associated with a diet high in sugar and carbohydrates. When we manufacture DiaSlim at our facility in the US, we first do an alcohol extract of the peel to extract as much nobiliten as possible, we then do a water extraction as well to make sure we have extracted all the nutrition out of the peel.

This research helps us to better understand why people are getting such amazing results for weight issues, blood sugar problems and sugar cravings with DiaSlim.

Our program for weight loss, The TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) Weight Loss Solution, combines an information packed ebook with our revolutionary herbal formula for weight loss, DiaSlim. To learn more about the TCM Weight Loss Solution, go here

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Recent research done in the US indicates that areas in the brain associated with cocaine and other drug addictions are the same areas activated when a food addict simply looks at a tempting food. It seems familiar to most us, a Pavlovian response even, you see the milkshake and your mouth waters. But what is the difference between someone who sees the milkshake and is not tempted and the one who crushes through the line to get to the waiting barrista?

While this particular research, which used MRIs to observe specific areas of the brain, is just coming out, anyone trained in biochemistry might have surmised years ago that most people who have intense food cravings are under the same brain mechanisms as a drug addict. In short, the cycle of food/drug addiction looks like this:

You eat sugar, spike your blood with caffeine, eat high carb foods or smoke…which leads to:

• Your adrenal glands release adrenaline and cortisol (aka stress hormones) then..
  
• Adrenaline releases stored sugar into the bloodstream and cortisol breaks down muscle into sugar then…
• Your pancreas reacts to sugar in the bloodstream then…
• Insulin is spike which stores extra sugar as fat then…
• Insulin also allows tryptophan to cross the blood brain barrier then… (Here is where the addictive mechanism kicks in)
• Tryptophan is converted to serotonin in the brain causing you to feel better then… (this is medicating with food, or “emotional” eating)
• Sertonin depletes very quickly as blood sugar crashes and you crash feeling depressed and low energy then…
• You crave sugar, stimulants, nicotine or other foods to pep up, eat them and the vicious cycle continues.

So it is easy to see how food is addictive, just as cigarettes and high doses of caffeine can be addictive. And it is also easy to see how and why that when cigarette smokers quit smoking, they gain weight. When we reach for that sugary snack when we feel emotional or depressed or sad, we are temporarily altering our state. We want to feel better and we use the things we are addicted to as a way out of out bad feelings, but as we can see from the progression above, the food/drug is only a quick temporary fix.

I spent 10 years observing this cycle of food and drug addiction in patients and in myself and then I learned how to short circuit the brain’s mechanisms with herbs. DiaSlim is a combination of organic herbs that treats the root of the addiction to food by acting on the body’s insulin resistance and serotonin levels. With DiaSlim, your cravings will diminish, your energy and natural vitality will return and you will be able to make healthier food choices.

Our organic herbal remedy DiaSlim can break the brain’s food addiction and help you lose weight in a sustainable way that treats the root problem: addiction.

To learn if DiaSlim is right for you, go here.

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The fact is that herbal remedies used for treating the side effects of radiation from nuclear fallout or have not been studied extensively in the United States. This is not true of Japan. After World War II, when Japan was bombed with nuclear weapons, the Japanese needed to find cheap ways to treat victims of radiation poisoning and they studied many herbs and some algae.

While we do know that many common herbs and herbal remedies are used in America for the side effects of radiation treatment for cancer, more research is necessary for radiation do to nuclear radiation or contamination.

The recent earthquake in Japan and the subsequent nuclear radiation and fallout will definitely require that the government seek out cheap ways to help their citizens detoxify and purify their bodies if they are exposed to such radiation. Because nuclear radiation exposure is a very rare event, herbs are not commonly used for detoxifying the body after exposure, but the situation in Japan will demand cheap ways to help people who are exposed detox their livers and blood. The Japanese herbal system called Kampo, has it’s roots in Chinese herbal medicine. Most of the kampo system was inherited from the longer herbal medicine traditional established in China over thousands of years. The Chinese herbal medicine system, or traditional Chinese medicine, has used herbal remedies for successfully over thousands of years to treat the most difficult disease and symptoms.

The herbal formula Dia-Slim, which is based on the wisdom of Chinese herbal medicine combined with modern herbal research, contains 9 herbs that have been used for lowering blood sugar and for stimulating fat loss and detoxification. Some of the herbs in Dia-Slim, like green tea for example, have been researched in Japan for promoting purifying and detoxifying effects on the body.

Formulas like Dia-Slim may be one way to help people detoxify their bodies cheaply after exposure to radiation but more research is definitely needed.

To learn more about DiaSlim go here

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