Sleep is one of a few things in life that we can't escape. Nor should we want to. It's intuitively obvious and confirmed by no end of studies that sleep is essential to good health.

One recent article calls deep sleep a fountain of youth, pointing to a study that shows "the parts of the brain that deteriorate the fastest as we age are the same areas that are responsible for the deep, restorative sleep we enjoyed in our youth." And the senior author of the study said, "Nearly every disease killing us in later life has a causal link to lack of sleep."

The senior author believes that achieving deep sleep is one of the key ways we can extend our health rather than just extending our lives, but that sleeping pills don't provide the kind of sleep needed for the right processes to occur. He says we need a better solution.

​So what happens if you have trouble sleeping? What if you can't get that deep sleep?
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As always, I believe that a body with the right nutrients and a biofield that's powered and organized correctly will allow someone to sleep easily and deeply. But all too often, the biofield is underpowered or distorted and doesn't allow that kind of sleep.

While a full protocol of infoceuticals following a bioscan and NES Health consultation can assist with more complex concerns, it is possible to focus on sleep issues with the Sleep infoceutical. This infoceutical is designed to help restore the body's natural rhythm and sleep cycles.

So if you've tried other natural methods or are trying to get away from sleeping pills, I encourage you to check out this option (here) and see how this solution works for you.

Most of us have some sort of goal for leaving our mark on the world. Maybe it's as (apparently) simple as raising our kids with as many of the right lessons and opportunities as we can give them so they can apply their talents to the world. Maybe it's amassing some amount of wealth and contributing to good causes. Maybe it's inventing something, or running a business that helps people live better lives. Maybe it's leaving some form of your art -- a performance (perhaps recorded), a painting, a book, a lecture series.

Whatever your goal, it is probably impacted for better or worse by your health, which is why investing in your long-term wellness is so important. It's not likely to keep you on planet Earth forever, but it is likely to optimize your experience while you're here, and hopefully to help you leave more of a mark.

I'm writing about this today, though, because December 16 is Beethoven's birthday and we know that he grew increasingly deaf throughout his life. He wasn't the only composer who couldn't hear well. Bedrich Smetana became deaf around age 50 before writing his best known piece of music, The Moldau.

I think this is worth pointing out because while our health definitely impacts what we can do -- especially if we're out of energy and can barely get out of bed -- it can also be used as an excuse not to fulfill what we perceive to be our purpose. And I like to think that if composers could write things like The Moldau or Beethoven's 9th symphony, we should be careful about too easily saying that an illness is keeping us from our purpose.

Of course if you can see how feeling better would improve your contribution to the world, how it could help you reach your goals, then it's worth exploring the next best steps to feeling better. Perhaps this means starting to eliminate things from your diet that don't serve you, or addressing unhealthy habits. Maybe it means slowly increasing the number of healthy foods or habits in your life. And maybe it means addressing deeper causes of your health challenges -- this can mean looking to energy remedies like infoceuticals and even making positive inner shifts through various consciousness practices.

Whatever the next step means for you, I encourage you to take it. We're all given some time on the planet to make a difference, and I love seeing what each person contributes. It would be a shame to lose the opportunity because health was holding you back and you never found a way to address it!

It's probably fair to say that the health community was shocked in 2012 to learn that one in 88 children had some level of autism. But what might possibly be more alarming is that, 2 years later in 2014 -- with no change in how it's diagnosed -- that number has now risen to one in 68.

To put that in perspective, if you're starting a family or thinking of starting a family, and you end up with 3 children, you have nearly a 5% chance that one of your children will have some level of autism ... and if you have 3 boys, it's closer to 8%.

I'm not one for fear mongering. Rather, I'm one for education mongering. It is time to seriously start becoming educated about health as a nation -- not educated by pharmaceutical companies and their paid-for studies; not educated by the doctors who only read material from those companies; but educated for ourselves from multiple perspectives.

Why? Because your health professionals aren't bothering to learn from multiple perspectives; their education is bought by drug companies. And our political leaders are bought and sold too, for the most part, which is why the FDA is also so cozy with the drug companies. This isn't some conspiracy theory -- it's widely understood and discussed by those in the medical community. Check out one of my favorite books on the topic by a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine: The Truth about the Drug Companies.

This is why it's critical to learn for yourself so you're not duped by the mainstream message. I'm not saying the mainstream message is always wrong -- only that it's very often paid for and, in my opinion, often by those who really don't care about your well being. Taking the time to study means being able to make educated choices that are right for you and your family.

So why the ongoing increase in autism? I won't pretend to have a factual answer more than anyone else, but I think common sense can tell us some things:

1) Our bodies have always operated on nutritional elements like vitamins, minerals, healthy proteins and fats, etc. (along with sunshine, water, and air). That will never change unless we start incarnating in robot bodies.

2) Many of us are choosing food that does little to replenish our nutritional reserves. We may be getting calories, but we're not getting nutrients. Even when we do bother to choose good foods, nutrient levels are far lower than they used to be. A study on 1950 to 1999 nutrient levels of 43 different fruits and vegetables showed "'reliable declines' in the amount of protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin (vitamin B2) and vitamin C over the past half century.
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There have likely been declines in other nutrients, too, he said, such as magnesium, zinc and vitamins B-6 and E, but they were not studied in 1950 and more research is needed to find out how much less we are getting of these key vitamins and minerals."

3) Toxic elements cause problems in the body especially when we're lacking nutrition because toxins that are chemically similar to elements we need for good health will take the place of useful nutrients if the nutrients aren't present. Therefore, increased toxins and decreased nutrition are two sides of a devastating coin.

4) We live in an increasingly toxic world. Energy production putting mercury and other toxins into the air; depleted uranium in the air from military efforts; chemical runoff in our water supply; chemicals from our carpets and furniture in the air we breathe; herbicides and pesticides in the foods we eat; mercury dental fillins. These are just a few examples of probably hundreds showing how our bodies are increasingly fighting against toxins.

5) Pharmaceuticals are toxins designed to block the proper functioning of the body (to mask pain, to stop the sniffles, inhibiting dead bone material from leaving our bones, etc.). Again, not some crazy opinion. This is simply what they are. This is why drug commercials -- one of our saddest national jokes -- tell us about all their side effects. So when we resort to drugs, we are adding to the already great challenge of handling toxins.

6) It really doesn't matter what anyone tries to tell you about vaccinations, and it doesn't even really matter if they work for their intended purpose. Bottom line is that they're highly toxic. This isn't just about mercury content -- they are concoctions of the most noxious things, including foreign (e.g., monkey) DNA. So even if they work for one thing, there's no question in my mind that they're introducing extreme toxins into the body. And maybe worst of all ... we're injecting these into babies.

A lot of people have blamed vaccinations for autism, especially with a focus on the mercury content (that we're told has been taken out of most vaccinations). Studies have supported and refuted vaccinations being the cause, and I think it's because they are just part of a much bigger picture involving all the points above.

UPDATE: Months after writing this, a whistleblower (who headed up this research and was highly respected before blowing the whistle) came forward and explained how the industry had covered up the connection between MMR vaccines and autism. In other words, there has been a known link. They changed data from a major 2004 study on the topic to hide the link, according to one of the authors of the report. This sounds like the cigarette industry all over again. 

Bottom line: common sense tells me that good health follows good nutrition and minimal toxins. So why is our medical system knowingly putting toxins in our bodies? And why are we volunteering to have this done? (I'm not just talking about vaccinations here, as I believe that should still be a personal choice after educating oneself. I'm talking about all the pharmaceuticals we're taking and that end up in our water suppply, etc.) My hope is that it's just an education issue, and if each person would take more time investigating outside of what their doctors or drug commercials tell them, we would see more people realizing that they have to take responsibility for their own health.

As with many in the natural health community, it's my suspicion that having people opt for nutrition and avoid toxins would start to turn the trend on autism. I can't state this as a fact -- it's only what the points above suggest to me. As a bioenergetics proponent, I would also point to products like infoceuticals as a way to empower the body to correctly shed those toxins.

If anyone thinks that they don't have the time to study or they don't have the money to invest in healthy food and/or supplements, they may not have thought through the time and cost involved in having a child with some sort of developmental disorder ... or the pain and cost of having their own increased health problems.

It's the "it'll never happen to me" syndrome that I think sinks so many of us. So what does it take? If one in three children got autism, do you imagine that everyone would take nutrition and toxins seriously? I'll bet most would. (And some believe that 1 in 11 will have autism by 2020.) How bad do the odds have to get before we decide that blindly following the instructions of those with a financial bias is a bad idea?

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