| "Anybody who tells you that disease has only one | | | | prevention, alignment of the whole body is |
| cause, and that drugs and surgery are the solution, is | | | | vital.Secondary Processes:11) Endocrine |
| DEAD WRONG." Dr. Ward Coleman, N.D.Unhealthy | | | | DysregulationThe endocrine (or hormonal) system is |
| aging and diseases of the body systems (such as | | | | one of the master systems of the body, controlling |
| cancer, heart disease, diabetes, immune dysfunction, | | | | all basic metabolic processes. As the roots of disease |
| etc.) are MULTI-CAUSAL.Extensive clinical analysis by | | | | take hold in the body the hypothalamus, pituitary and |
| Four Mountains, Inc. has revealed the following TOP | | | | adrenal (HPA Axis) becomes imbalanced and the |
| TEN "ROOTS OF DISEASE" (and their solutions).Note | | | | body begins to lose the capacity for self-defense and |
| that these TOP TEN causes of disease are | | | | self-repair. Thyroid, pineal, pancreas, ovarian and |
| INTERCONNECTED and manifest SIMULTANEOUSLY | | | | testicular problems will develop manifesting excessive |
| in varying degrees underneath ALL disease of ANY | | | | and deficient cycling of hormones. The spectrum of |
| sort.PROBLEM: THE ROOT CAUSES OF DISEASE: | | | | symptoms that result from endocrine dysregulation is |
| THE TOP TENChronic psychological and emotional | | | | vast.In general, if you have hormonal problems, it is a |
| suffering, pain and stress.ToxemiaAutonomic | | | | mistake to assume that the primary problem is with |
| DysrhythmiaOxidative StressKiller FoodChronic | | | | the gland itself. For example, thyroid problems are |
| DehydrationTouch DeprivationTissue Oxygen | | | | common, but it is wrong to assume that it is a |
| StarvationChronic Inflammation, Lesions and | | | | primary thyroid disease, as this is rarely the case. |
| RestrictionsStructural SubluxationsSecondary | | | | When the deeper (upstream) imbalances have been |
| Processes:Primary, upstream causes have a global | | | | corrected, our hormonal system can return to |
| effect on the body/mind which then leads to many | | | | balance. Ignoring the roots of disease and taking |
| secondary, downstream processes. Ignored and | | | | hormones is the wrong approach. Balancing endocrine |
| uncorrected the roots of disease grow in a | | | | dysregulation by pulling the deeper roots of disease, |
| progressive, snowballing fashion. Like falling dominos, | | | | is the correct approach.12) Immune DysfunctionThe |
| countless symptoms manifest throughout the entire | | | | body does not 'have' an immune system as much as |
| body. Treating the multitude of superficial symptoms, | | | | it 'is' an immune system. When ALL our body's |
| and ignoring the deeper (upstream) roots of | | | | systems are functioning properly we are immune to |
| imbalance is a misdirected, costly and ultimately futile | | | | infection, illness and disease. And when our body |
| endeavor.Endocrine DysregulationImmune | | | | systems are deeply imbalanced we are unable to |
| DysfunctionInherent WeaknessesCOMMENTARY: | | | | effectively resist infection, illness and disease. Building |
| THE ROOTS OF DISEASE1) Chronic psychological and | | | | a powerful immune system therefore suggests that |
| emotional suffering, pain and stress.At times, | | | | we need to pull all the roots of disease and take |
| everyone experiences mental and emotional turmoil. | | | | care of the WHOLE person.13) Inherent |
| For many it's a way of life. Chronic worry, heartache, | | | | WeaknessesThis is where our genetic constitution |
| loss, frustration and pain take a toll on the nerves | | | | enters the picture. If our family tree suggests a |
| and deplete vital force, depress immunity, disrupt | | | | history of weak lungs, livers, kidneys, the chances |
| hormones and biorhythms. Childhood stress, | | | | are we have inherited these same weaknesses, |
| relationship stress, job stress... it all adds up and can | | | | whatever they are. In other words, you don't just |
| take a whopping toll on your health. It's a fact, stress | | | | have your daddy's eyes and your mommy's chin, you |
| kills.2) ToxemiaIngested toxins, environmental toxins, | | | | have their liver and spleen too! It is said that 'we die |
| metabolic toxins... by the millions. From the dry | | | | from our inherent weaknesses'. This means that as |
| cleaners and lawn chemicals to the food industry and | | | | the imbalances in our body's persist, the wear and |
| 'sick building syndrome', we're all exposed to more | | | | tear on our organs and systems is not equal |
| toxins than we can shake a stick at. This is in addition | | | | throughout. Eventually, it will be our weakest link that |
| to the toxins our bodies create as a by-product of | | | | finally snaps. Even if our heart had another twenty |
| work, exercise and STRESS. Over the years the | | | | years of function left in it, when our weakest link |
| body's elimination of toxins may be insufficient to | | | | finally breaks, it brings the rest of the body down |
| deal with the load. Disease can result when excessive | | | | with it. It helps to know your inherent weaknesses |
| poisons accumulate in our cells and block normal | | | | so you can be mindful and adjust your self-care |
| function. Most notably, we find that people suffer | | | | routine accordingly.SOLUTION: PULLING THE ROOTS |
| with toxic blood, lymph, intestines, liver, kidneys | | | | OF DISEASEJUMPSTART: 3 POINT PLAN1) Take |
| bladder, lungs and sinuses.3) Autonomic | | | | Your SupplementsFour Mountains has meticulously |
| DysrhythmiaModern culture is 'sympathetic dominant'. | | | | examined and tested more than one thousand |
| This is a serious dysfunction that is practically | | | | nutritional supplement brands for quality and above all, |
| ubiquitous, affecting even our household pets. No | | | | clinical effectiveness. As it stands, one company, |
| joke. Sympathetic dominance is present when the | | | | Standard Process Labs, is hands down, the industry |
| nervous system is dominated by stress and the | | | | leader. Since 1929 Standard Process has been |
| classic fight/flight physiology. Volumes of Nobel Prize | | | | manufacturing an extensive line of whole food |
| research stand as testament to the fact that an | | | | concentrates, including protomorphogen and cytosol |
| overactive sympathetic nervous system leads to | | | | extract technology. If you need to nutritionally |
| accelerated aging and disease.4) Oxidative StressA | | | | support, detoxify, fortify, relax or mobilize any organ, |
| rusty nail, a browning apple, age spots on the hands... | | | | system or tissue type - Standard Process has a |
| it's all the same. Free radicals have been the subject | | | | product that will safely do the job, and do it well.Most |
| of extensive research and the evidence is clear that | | | | nutritional supplement companies use synthetic raw |
| oxidative stress won't just rust your pipes, or spoil | | | | materials and only fragments of incomplete nutrient |
| your food, free radicals do the same thing inside our | | | | complexes. Supplying the body fragments of inert |
| bodies, essentially rusting our organs from the inside | | | | nutrients is a poor substitute for nutrient complexes |
| out. Laboratory testing on hundreds of thousands of | | | | as found in nature. We urge people to stop ingesting |
| individuals has demonstrated that oxidative stress is a | | | | synthetic nutrients and consume only the most pure |
| very widespread and creates an internal environment | | | | and natural form of food concentrates.At Four |
| favorable toward illness, disease and many of the | | | | Mountains, we are of the opinion the optimal health is |
| outward signs of unhealthy aging.Primary sources of | | | | only possible by taking advantage of these unique |
| free radicals: hyper or non-specific stimulation of the | | | | nutritional formulas. Hard as it may be for the skeptic |
| immune system results in excess concentrations of | | | | in you to believe, there is only one nutritional |
| hypochlorite production, exposure to toxins | | | | supplement company in the world that can be |
| (xenobiotics) which cause the liver and the adrenal | | | | trusted. Of the thousands of products we have |
| cortex, reactions that involve the cytochrome P450 | | | | tested, only Standard Process delivers the goods. |
| enzyme reaction system, exposure to radiation either | | | | Visit for detailed information, or call Four Mountains at |
| electromagnetic or through ionizing, excessive stress | | | | 1-800-736-0904 to request our FREE SUPPLEMENT |
| which through neuro-transmitters and modulators | | | | GUIDE and for help with ordering. You need this!2) |
| force both the immune and endocrine systems to | | | | Low Stress DietRead hundreds of diet books and |
| produce destructive radicals.5) Killer FoodHow can a | | | | sort it all out for yourself, or call Four Mountains and |
| nation notorious for overeating protein, carbohydrate | | | | we'll send you a FREE COPY of THE LOW STRESS |
| and fat have so many people deficient in vital | | | | DIET - a summary of everything you'll ever need to |
| nutrients? The answer is that we are eating too | | | | know about a healthy diet.3) YogaDon't mistake |
| many 'empty calories' from foods grown in depleted | | | | Yoga for a trend or fad, as it's older than the hills and |
| top soil, coupled with excessive processing and | | | | has proven itself the world over as the most |
| refining.Americans, young and old, suffer from multiple | | | | awesome of healing traditions. Heal every system, |
| trace mineral, macro mineral and vitamin deficiencies. | | | | organ, nerve, gland, muscle and bone in your body. |
| Most common deficiencies include magnesium, zinc, | | | | That's the power of yoga.Get rid of a lot of tension |
| iron, selenium, B complex, vitamin C, vitamin E, | | | | and you'll be like a new person after only one week. |
| essential fatty acids and various amino | | | | Of course that's the quick fix. Do it for ninety days |
| acids.Additionally, the Standard American Diet causes | | | | and you'll cure most diseases. Do it for two years |
| blood sugar dysregulation, hormonal disorders, | | | | and you'll turn into the person you always hoped you |
| acidosis, and digestive system overload and | | | | might become but didn't know how to get there.Give |
| weakness. The bottom line is that the average | | | | it a whirl. We enthusiastically recommend you study |
| person's diet is killing them in more ways than one. | | | | several yoga systems to derive maximum benefit |
| Despite loads of media attention and books from our | | | | and find your personal best routine. Start with |
| nation's top nutritional gurus, the majority of people in | | | | Ashtanga, Bikram, Kundalini and Somatic Yoga. If you |
| this country are still digging their graves with their | | | | explore just those four styles, you'll be very well |
| teeth.6) Chronic DehydrationWhen we don't drink | | | | taken care of, and you'll never have to look any |
| enough healthy fluids we become dehydrated. The | | | | further.LIFELONG HEALTH MANAGEMENT: YOUR |
| problem is that it's possible to be dehydrated more | | | | WELLNESS LIFESTYLE1) Self-Awareness & |
| or less continuously for many years and not even | | | | Self-Regulation (SA/SR)Face it. Your body is a lifelong |
| know it. This in turn creates chronic and severe | | | | responsibility. Therefore, if you intend to take care of |
| hormonal stress that leads directly to pain and | | | | it the way you should, a little knowledge is |
| disease. Research indicates that a simple water | | | | indispensable.Your body is very much like a GARDEN. |
| deficiency afflicts many millions of Americans.7) | | | | Neglect it and the roots of disease will take over and |
| Touch DeprivationDetachment style parenting, body | | | | destroy it's inherent design, health and beauty. |
| issues, and neglect of the body promotes a condition | | | | However, tend it with the appropriate Wellness Tools |
| known as 'touch deprivation'. For millions of people | | | | and enjoy the health, beauty and vitality that is yours |
| this is a condition to simply accept. However, the | | | | to enjoy.For your Wellness Lifestyle to be effective, |
| stress and pain that results is more than many people | | | | it will necessarily have to include some self-awareness |
| can bare and drives them to extreme and desperate | | | | and self-regulation in the following areas. This just |
| behavior in an unconscious effort to remedy a touch | | | | means that you need to think about these four |
| deficiency. However, there is no substitute for touch. | | | | areas every so often and make sure that your doing |
| Without enough skin to skin contact human beings | | | | a pretty good job keeping each area balanced. |
| become extremely imbalanced, and mentally and | | | | Imbalances in one or all of these four areas will have |
| physically diseased.8) Tissue Oxygen StarvationNinety | | | | you running to a doctor, so the more you keep an |
| percent of Americans are oxygen starved and eighty | | | | eye on it yourself, the more self-reliant and healthier |
| percent of these don't even realize it. The cause for | | | | your GARDEN will become.Think of your body and |
| this widespread problem is twofold. First, few if any | | | | your health as involving four key areas. These are |
| of us are actually taught healthy breathing habits, we | | | | the four areas for which you are already responsible, |
| simply ignore it all together. The second reason is due | | | | whether you want to be or not. Sounds harsh, but |
| to a predominantly indoor (and sedentary) lifestyle. | | | | there's nothing any of us can do about it.a) Metabolic |
| Living inside schools, offices, homes, cars, and | | | | Self-Managementb) Nutritional Self-Managementc) |
| shopping malls combined with unconscious shallow | | | | Mental/Emotional Self-Managementd) Structural |
| breathing creates hypoxia, and hypoxia is an | | | | Self-Management2) Turning the Wheel of HealingThe |
| anaerobic condition that breeds infection, cancer, | | | | Wheel of Healing is the principle model for effective |
| heart disease, inflammation/pain and chronic fatigue.9) | | | | natural health care and healthy aging.a) |
| Chronic Inflammation, Lesions and RestrictionsMost, if | | | | DetoxificationReduce the body's toxic load with |
| not all, people suffer with multiple inflammations, | | | | wholistic interventions that support all the channels of |
| lesions and restrictions in their various membranes, | | | | elimination and safely remove accumulated debris |
| connective tissues, muscles, ligaments, tendons and | | | | from your systemb) FortificationAchieve nutritional |
| organs. Not only do these inflammations and lesions | | | | competence by furnishing the body with the essential |
| limit mobility and motility, they also add substantially | | | | raw materials needed for normal function.c) |
| to the body's total stress load, and frequently | | | | RelaxationDispel biological distress with proven |
| become the site for accumulated toxins and future | | | | techniques and tools that remove layers of tension |
| cancers. Preventing disease and creating optimal | | | | from the mind and body.d) MobilizationCultivate |
| health necessitates that we locate and eliminate | | | | vigorous circulation, powerful nerve force, balanced |
| these physical problems.10) Structural | | | | musculoskeletal strength, and visceral health with daily |
| SubluxationsGravity, injuries, sitting in chairs, bad | | | | therapeutic movement and low-stress body alignment |
| shoes, and poor posture can all cause spinal and joint | | | | exercises.3) Wellness ToolsAs there are many and |
| mis-alignment, which in turn leads to neuro-muscular, | | | | diverse ways to turn the Wheel of Healing, Four |
| multiple organ and system dysfunction. Autopsy | | | | Mountains has cataloged and innovated approximately |
| research indicates that in most cases, diseased | | | | eighty Wellness Tools specifically to facilitate these |
| organs are directly linked to subluxated vertebra. | | | | four vital processes. Our Wellness Tools are the |
| Subluxations of the cranial joints (sutures) have also | | | | bricks and mortar of our Wellness Programs, |
| been shown to cause serious dysfunction in body, | | | | designed to provide maximum care for your body's |
| mind and behavior. For optimal health and disease | | | | twelve systems. |