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Do you sit in an office or in front of a computer all day?

How's that working for your body? Your energy levels?

When you don't move, your metabolism slows down, your muscles start to disappear, you get fatter, and you lose energy.

Is this you?

''My clothes are getting tighter, even though they're bigger
My whole body feels stiffer and slower
I'm lose self-esteem and energy as the day wears on
I really need to relieve my stress and something to laugh about''

You haven't done anything wrong. You've just been doing your job.

Looking for change?

Jump start your metabolism, immune system, overall wellbeing and energy with Ian Mathews' 4 Week BodyBlitz class.

Developed and led by UK fitness pioneer Ian Mathews, 1000s of people throughout the UK have enjoyed the results. In 2010, it was voted the Best Workout in Dublin in 2010 by Cheers Magazine.

More than just  a workout - refuel, renew & revitalise

This unique workout uses simple, yet challenging bodyweight and functional exercises to progressively overload your body and its energy systems. Exercises range in intensity and will challenge your strength, balance and co-ordination.

Benefits include

• Fast, reduced weight and fatloss, especially from waist, hips and thighs
• Stronger, leaner, toned muscle and healthy musculo-skeletal conditioning
• Lower heart-rate at rest, lower blood pressure, reduced stress
• Drastically improved mobility, co-ordination and stamina
• 'Happy hormones' flooding the body to make you feel healthy and alive!! 
  

In Korea for the first time

BodyBlitz designer and lead facilitator Ian Mathews is now in Korea, offering classes at New York Wholistic Care, Itaewon, Seoul.

Choose between a 2-day and 3-day per week program. You will workout in a small group to guarantee maximum attention from your certified facilitator, Ian.

You won't be bored. Ian has designed the program to be fun and varied, including martial-arts, partner-training, military exercises or many surprises! Not only that, each class is closed with a soothing restorative meditation.

What if it were fun?

What if BodyBltiz improved your productivity at work and enjoyment of life? What if you simply had fun?!

Register NOW
Look and feel absolutely awesome...FAST.

Classes are small, so places are limited. Call 010-9939-7830 or email Ian here to receive class details (fees, days/times, program specifics)

What people say

"Ive lost 7% body fat and i nearly have a female 6-pack, and Ian not only got me into my wedding dress, but they had to re-tailor it to make it smaller! Best excise program Ive done in 10 years of gym-going"
Helen - Dublin  

"It was tough, but it gets addictive..I feel brilliant, my family cant believe how quickly I slimmed down and I nearly jumped over the ticket barrier at Pearse St Station 'cos I feel so full of energy"
Morgane - from Paris  

"As a supplement to my rugby training, this workout has given me incredible stamina and energy. The relaxation at the end of the workout also helps to settle me and put me in a good mood for work"
Brian - Irish Tag-Rugby International

by Phillip Day

Profile

The common cold is known and loathed by all but, as with other apparent ‘disorders', is really just an elimination procedure undertaken by the body. Those who get colds regularly need to examine whether they are challenging their immune system with stress, vitamin D deficiency, lack of exercise or foods their body is rejecting: e.g. cow's milk, sugar, gluten from wheat, barley, rye, etc. Certainly, ‘snotty nosed' kids who suffer from what I term ‘Niagara Nose' generally have a problem with cow's milk, as I explain in a chapter in Health Wars dedicated to the subject, and the mucus formed is the body's way of getting toxins out of the system. Food intolerances, such as those with cow's milk, may also present themselves in kids, not only as colds, but as colic, rashes, diarrhoea, behavioural problems, the ‘Terrible Twos' syndrome, etc.

Symptoms

Dry scratchy throat, general feelings of listlessness, headache, upper respiratory tract congestion, sneezing, etc. Influenza comes with a temperature, shivering, shakes, etc., and is indicative of a poor immune system. Thick mucus will be ejected through nose and mouth which contains dead organisms, toxins, white blood cells, and other debris the body is trying to expel. Colds generally last from three to ten days while influenza can go on longer. Protracted illness may indicate a deeper problem with immune function, which might involve the patient being too stressed, extremely vitamin-D-deficient, not enough rest, inadequate nutrition, too much cooked food, animal products, dehydration, etc.

Commentary

Those with a robust immune system and clean, exercised and detoxified body do not suffer from colds. Chief causes of a depressed immune system will be lack of nutritious food, dehydration, vitamin D deficiency, food allergies, a constant intake of refined sugar and sugary drinks, and stress, which depletes vitamin C reserves in the body. Low levels of vitamin D are thought to be why we get most colds and flu in the winter. Optimising your diet and D3 serum levels are the two best factors for avoiding these problems.

Traditional treatments

Visit any pharmacy today and you'll be confronted with racks of patented products all claiming to do something for the common cold or flu. All most do is suppress symptoms rather than eliminate the root cause of why your body found it necessary to clean itself out to begin with. In Wake up to Health in the 21st Century, Steve Ransom highlights many examples of cons being perpetrated by companies pushing the latest flu and cold cures on a gullible public. Best avoid them all and address the root problems instead.

Take action©

Turning off the toxin tap to avoid colds will involve changing diet in the way we have examined with previous disorders, and employing techniques to boost the immune system, assisting the body in eliminating the problem rather than suppressing the immune system's ability to do its job properly (which is all most over-the-counter cold medicines accomplish anyway). Here are some pointers for prevention as well as remedy:

• DIET: COMMENCE THE FOOD FOR THOUGHT LIFESTYLE REGIMEN, paying special attention to items to eliminate. Ensure at least 80% of the food you eat is uncooked (raw), unrefined, organic plant dietary. It's best actually to move to a 100% plant-based, 100% raw food system while sick since this regimen, energy-wise, removes the ‘drag-anchor' from the immune system and provides a highly bio-available nutritional payload for minimal processing deficit. Those patients unfamiliar with 100% raw, plant-based diets should have a family member assist in rounding up the huge spectrum of food items available. A salad is NOT just lettuce and tomato!! Juicing veggies is highly recommended too. (for more information, see my books Health Wars and the recipe companion, Food for Thought)
• HYDRATION: Commence drinking half your bodyweight (lbs) in ounces A DAY, i.e. a 120 lb female should drink 60 oz of water daily, which is around eight glasses. For most adults, 2 litres of water will suffice. Do not overdo
• DIET: Half a teaspoon (tsp) of unrefined sea salt or, best, Himalayan salt for every ten glasses of water
• RESTORING NUTRIENT BALANCE: COMMENCE THE BASIC SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM, ensuring, if suffering:
• Vitamin C complex (ascorbates plus bioflavonoids), titrate to bowel tolerance, so you'll be taking significant amounts 10-15 times throughout the day. If diarrhoea results, back dosage down to threshold level. (For more information, see my book The Essential Guide to Vitamin C )
• Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol): Be aware of where you are on the vitamin D serum scale and adjust accordingly. Dr Joseph Mercola advocates a heavy one-time dose of oral D3 to ‘get you into the game' and elevate your D3 serum levels above 150 nmol/L (60 ng/ml) (see my booklet The Essential Guide to Vitamin D)
• Vitamin A & E emulsion, 20,000 - 25,000 IU per day during the cold
• Allicin, 3 capsules, three times per day
• Zinc (gluconate), 25 mg per day during the cold
• Vitamin B6, 50 mg, am and pm during the cold
• IMMUNE FUNCTION: Echinacea, 1 g, three times per day
• IMMUNE FUNCTION: Astragalus, 1 g, three times per day
• TIP: Get plenty of rest. Potent immune factors are released during deep rest. DO NOT exercise during the cold/flu period but ensure you exercise regularly when you are well
• TIP: Avoid stress! Very, very, very, very important...

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