Green Barley was given daily to all types of persons – women, children, pregnant women, men and for all kinds of sickness, including cancer, bowel problems, heart conditions, viruses, anaemia, run down states and many others. (The dose was one teaspoonful per day in a glass of cold water or good quality juice.) The tests were conducted to determine the effects of green barley on the blood itself in all kinds of health conditions. Also to compare the use of green barley against the usual treatment for blood restoration.

RESULTS:

In all cases across the board, the GREEN BARLEY was superior and quicker at blood building than any other treatments usually employed.

The result of using the green barley on a daily basis, within six weeks, was in all cases, an abundant supply of good quality new red blood cells, capable of carrying life giving oxygen to the cells as it flowed around the body.

The number of people sampled over one year was 4,000, which is a good-sized sample.

SEEING IS BELIEVING:

Most people don’t know what condition their blood is in, simply because they do not have the opportunity to look at it. I have found that most people assume that their blood flows nicely around their bodies without any problems. However, this is far from the truth as most blood, looked at daily does not flow or does not flow properly.

It is possible to look at your own blood if you have a Live Blood Microscopy (a type of blood viewing). In this case you see a sample of your blood (a tiny prick of the finger) on a monitor. You can be interested in how it should be, what you are seeing, whether your immune cells are working and so on.

Usually, if you have a blood test it is done by a pathologist and you don’t see it, Also, the most common method still used is H.L.B. analysing.

The difference is, L.B.M. is a live blood that stays in good state for 40 minutes for you to study, and H.L.B. is dried blood on a slide that can be looked at anytime. Of course, when blood is dry, it is hard to read. You can’t for example see the plasma or what is in it. You can’t see the condition, age or performance possibilities of the red blood cells or even how many are new cells, neither can you see if your immunity cells are working or are in good condition.

WHY IS ALL THIS IMPORTANT?

1. There are mainly only two types of cells found in the body – white cells (immune cells), of which there are several types, and red blood cells.
2. Since your blood is your life force and every part – organs, muscles, skin, nerves etc. depend upon the red blood cells to bring to them oxygen and nutrients for maintenance, repair or renewal. It is easy to see why this is so. Additionally, if your body parts do not get these two items, oxygen and nutrients, you get sick as your cells struggle and die.
3. The part your immune cells play is primarily to spin, and cleanse of bacteria, each and every red blood cell. When this is happening, the red blood cell is kept nice and round, single and able to function. Also, the immune system is a scavenger and has scavenger cells, which engorge any bacteria, parasites, or organisms that enter the body. Finally, the immune system constantly vacuums the plasma. The plasma is the jelly, which the cells move around in, and this has to be kept spotlessly clean, by the immune system mainly.
4. For the proper functioning of these two types of cells, you must have the following:

* an abundance of new red blood cells
* all the cells to be single to enter the capillaries
* all the cells to be even in size
* all the cells to be very round
* support for a constant turnover of red cells

The immunity cells should be active, have a fair proportion of new cells, be alive and working and there must be enough to take care of the red cells and invaders to the host.

However, this is not what you see on L.B.M. Commonly this is seen:

* The red blood cells are rouleauxed (that is, stacked in piles like a stack of plates) or in clumps of different sizes.
* After being “run down” or having a cold, there are always clots (or thrombocytes) many of which are quite large. They oxidise as they age, they sit in the blood and impede the flow and can break up under exercise – and have the potential to cause heart attacks or strokes.
* Lots of bacteria in the plasma cause the cells to stick together and contribute to the formation of clots.
* The immune cells are unable to travel around the blood under these conditions, and so the cleaning is not carried out.
* Now the plasma becomes fouled up with spicules from an overloaded liver and other wastes. With the immune cells tied up, the bacteria and parasites increase greatly and the cells are starved of nutrients and oxygen throughout the body, making things worse. Conditions are now right for candida (a fungi) to grow.
* Candida eats the red and the immune cells and continues to grow – now the cells are in trouble. Unless they get some outside help now – disease can easily get started.

Are we not very lucky to have a product like organically grown GREEN BARLEY, which can turn these conditions in the blood around in a short space of time, no matter how bad the blood is or how sick the body has become?

TO SUM UP – THESE ARE THE FUNCTIONS NOTICEABLE IN THE BLOOD AFTER TAKING GREEN BARLEY:

1. Improved circulation, WHICH
2. Delivers oxygen to the cells, WHICH
3. Removes poisonous compounds, WHICH
4. Improves cell membrane transfer of nutrients and waste, WHICH
5. Allows for better mobilisation and implementation of all defensive protective mechanisms, for offensive weapon against disease and reparative processes necessary for healing to take place.

A COMPLETE AND INEXPENSIVE METHOD OF GETTING WELL AND STAYING THAT WAY.

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Green Barley, Nature’s ideal convenience food, is a concentrate that restores to the average diet minerals, vitamins, amino acids and many other food factors in their organic form. Of special interest are the many enzymes in Green Barley, which render this wonderful product “a living food”. Green Barley can be compared to eating freshly harvested organic green vegetables with the added advantages inherent in the green shoots of barley. Research over many years has shown them to contain the greatest number of essential elements, for human nutrition, of all forms of vegetation.

ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS are comprised of vitamins, minerals and amino acids. For our bodies to be able to repair, and build new cells, antibodies, hormones and enzymes these nutrients must be present in the body at all times.

Green Barley contains these essential nutrients in a form, which is highly acceptable to the body. These nutrients are accompanied by an abundance of enzymes – the LIFE FORCE of food. Without enzymes the treasury of vegetation placed at our disposal here on Earth would be but dead matter. We cannot be expected to build healthy living tissues with dead matter, and nor can we.

Dr Mary Swope, author of Green Leaves of Barley points out that endogenous (originating from within) enzymes are limited at birth, are exhaustible, last longer when conserved by consistent daily consumption of raw foods, and by consuming supplements.

Green Barley Powder contains the spectrum of enzyme activated vitamins in nature’s inimitable balance, and an excellent range of minerals and trace elements in organic form. These vitamins and minerals perform the role of micro – nutrients, which allow the maximum utilisation of macro – nutrients (protein, carbohydrate and fat).

The brilliant green colour inherent in Green Barley is chlorophyll (the substance which allows plants to photosynthesize).

Chloride is an “essential” mineral for humans. It is abundant in ionic trace mineral preparations. It is a major mineral nutrient that occurs primarily in body fluids. Chloride is a prominent negatively charged ion of the blood, where it represents 70 percent of the body’s total negative ion content. On average, an adult human body contains approximately 115 grams of chloride, making up about 0.15 percent of total body weight.1 The suggested amount of chloride intake ranges from 750 to 900 milligrams (mg) per day, based on the fact that total obligatory loss of chloride in the average person is close to 530 mg per day.

As the principle negatively charged ion in the body, chloride serves as one of the main electrolytes of the body. Chloride, in addition to potassium and sodium, assists in the conduction of electrical impulses when dissolved in bodily water. Potassium and sodium become positive ions as they lose an electron when dissolved, and chloride becomes a negative ion as it gains an electron when dissolved. A positive ion is always accompanied by a negative ion, hence the close relationship between sodium, potassium, and chloride. Electrolytes are distributed throughout all body fluids including the blood, lymph, and the fluid inside and outside cells.2 The negative charge of chloride balances against the positive charges of sodium and potassium ions in order to maintain serum osmolarity.

Pivotal Roles of Chloride in the Body
In addition to its functions as an electrolyte, chloride combines with hydrogen in the stomach to make hydrochloric acid—a powerful digestive enzyme responsible for the breakdown of proteins, the absorption of other metallic minerals, and activation of intrinsic factor, which, in turn, absorbs vitamin B12. Chloride is specially transported into the gastric lumen, in exchange for another negatively charged electrolyte (bicarbonate) in order to maintain electrical neutrality across the stomach membrane. After utilization in hydrochloric acid, some chloride is reabsorbed by the intestine, back into the bloodstream where it is required for maintenance of extracellular fluid volume.

Chloride is both actively and passively absorbed by the body, depending on the current metabolic demands. A constant exchange of chloride and bicarbonate between red blood cells and the plasma helps govern pH balance and transport carbon dioxide, a waste product of respiration, from the body.
With sodium and potassium, chloride works in the nervous system to aid in the transport of electrical impulses throughout the body, as movement of negatively charged chloride into the cell propagates the nervous electrical potential.

Deficiency of Chloride
A deficiency of chloride is rare. However, when it does occur, it results in a life-threatening condition known as alkalosis, in which the blood becomes overly alkaline. A tedious balance between alkalinity and acidity is in constant flux, and must be vigilantly maintained throughout the entire body. Alkalosis may occur as a result of excessive loss of sodium, such as heavy sweating during endurance exercise, and in cases of prolonged vomiting and diarrhea. Symptoms include muscle weakness, loss of appetite, irritability, dehydration, and profound lethargy. Hypochloremia may result from water overload, wasting conditions, and extensive bodily burns with sequestration of extracellular fluids. In a situation in which infants were inadvertently fed chloride-deficient formula, many experienced failure to thrive, anorexia, and weakness in their first year of life.3

“The suggested amount of chloride intake ranges from 750 to 900 milligrams (mg) per day,
based on the fact that total obligatory loss of chloride in the average person is close to 530 mg per day.”

Excess Intake?
Excessive intakes of dietary chloride only occur with the ingestion of large amounts of salt and potassium chloride. The toxic effects of such diets, such as fluid retention and high blood pressure, are attributed to high sodium and potassium levels.4 Chloride toxicity has not been observed in humans except in the special case of impaired sodium chloride metabolism, e.g., in congestive heart failure.5 Healthy individuals can tolerate the intake of large quantities of chloride provided there is a concomitant intake of fresh water. Another situation in which increased blood levels of chloride are seen include diseases of improper waste elimination, which occurs in kidney diseases. Excess chloride is normally excreted in the urine, sweat, and bowels. In fact, excess urinary excretion of chloride occurs in high-salt diets. Excessive intakes of chloride can occur in a person with compromised health in addition to an unhealthy diet. However, those who follow a healthy diet and lead an active lifestyle may need to consider supplementing their diet with this important mineral.

Chloride vs. Chlorine
The mineral supplement chloride is very different from the gas chlorine. Elemental chlorine is a dangerous gas that does not exist in the free elemental state in nature because of its reactivity, although it is widely distributed in combination with other elements. Chloride is related to chlorine, however, only as one of the most common chlorine compounds is common salt, NaCl. Chloride is a by-product of the reaction between chlorine and an electrolyte, such as potassium, magnesium, or sodium, which are elements that are essential for human metabolism. Chloride salts are essential for sustaining human metabolism and have none of the effects of isolated chlorine gas.

Sources of Chloride
Chloride occurs naturally in foods at levels normally less than 0.36 milligrams per gram of food. The average intake of chloride during a salt-free diet is approximately 100 milligrams per day. Unfortunately, chloride is found commonly combined with undesirable dietary sources. The most common of these negative sources is table salt. Table salt is made from a combination of sodium and chloride ions. Other unhealthful sources include yeast extracts, processed lunchmeats, and cheeses.
Healthier sources of chloride include kelp (seaweed), ionic trace minerals, olives, rye, tomatoes, lettuce, and celery, but are not in large enough amounts to supply the needs of an active adult.6 In its original form, however, chloride is leached from various rocks into soil and water by years of weathering processes. The chloride ion is highly mobile and is transported to closed basins, such as the Great Salt Lake or oceans.7

“Without chloride, the human body would be unable to maintain fluids in blood vessels,
conduct nerve transmissions, move muscles, or maintain proper kidney function.”

Summary
Chloride is a highly important, vital mineral required for both human and animal life. Without chloride, the human body would be unable to maintain fluids in blood vessels, conduct nerve transmissions, move muscles, or maintain proper kidney function. As a major electrolyte mineral of the body, chloride performs many roles, and is rapidly excreted from the body. Active adults that eat a healthy diet devoid of salt as well as illnesses in which vomiting and/or diarrhea are profuse warrant the supplementation of additional chloride.

Replacement of chloride is essential on a daily basis to maintain regular metabolic function. Chloride is safely utilized by the body, without negative health effects. Of the negative health effects that have been associated with diets high in chloride, these are mainly attributable to the accompanying sodium and potassium, two other electrolyte minerals to which chloride is often attached.

References:
1. Wesson LG. Physiology of the human kidney. New York, NY, Grune and Stratton, 1969: 591.
2. Weast RC, ed. CRC handbook of chemistry and physics, 67th ed. Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, 1986.
3. Kaleita TA. Neurologic/behavioral syndrome associated with ingestion of chloride-deficient infant formula. Pediatrics 1986 Oct;78(4):714-5.
4. Beard TC. A salt-hypertension hypothesis. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1990;16 Suppl 7:S35-8.
5. Seelig M. Cardiovascular consequences of magnesium deficiency and loss: pathogenesis, prevalence and manifestations–magnesium and chloride loss in refractory potassium repletion. Am J Cardiol 1989 Apr 18;63(14):4G-21G.
6. Altschul AM, Grommet JK. Food choices for lowering sodium intake. Hypertension 1982 Sep-Oct;4(5 Pt 2):III116-20.
7. Gelb SB, Anderson MP. Sources of chloride and sulfate in ground water beneath an urbanized area in Southeastern Wisconsin (Report WIS01 NTIS). Chemical abstracts, 1981, 96(2):11366g.

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If the enzymes are taken on an empty stomach there isn’t enough HCL present to deactivate them, therefore providing they are not enterically coated they are immediately more bio-available once they reach the intestinal tract. Furthermore, if the enzymes are taken away from food, their potential isn’t used on digesting food but is allowed to pass into the body and focus on other systemic processes.

This bio-availability of the enzymes is of particular benefit for people who are taking a systemic enzyme for inflammation and pain control, as it prevents a delay in the activation of the enzymes. Therefore, when chosing a systemic enzyme it is good to question whether the supplement is enterically coated but not for the reasons you might previously have thought.

• Metal toxicity

Water fluoridation
Excessive cooking
High fat diet
Pasteurisation
Use of hormones in meat products
Use of pesticides and other chemicals
Microwaving or exposure to radiation or electromagnetic fields
Stress or long term illness
Amalgam dental fillings

A systemic enzyme supplement, when taken in conjunction with a healthy diet rich in vegetables and fruits can help readdress enzyme depletion. The benefits of this type of enzyme therapy are varied but include the following:

• Support the promotion of a healthy cardiovascular system
• Aid the reduction in fibrin or scar tissue
• Support Temperature balance and comfort
• Boost the immune system and the body’s defences

The word systemic means body wide. Systemic enzymes are those that operate,not just for digestion, but throughout your body in every system and organ.But let’s take first things first, what is an enzyme?

An enzyme is a biocatalyst – something that makes something else work or work faster. Chemical reactions are generally slow things, enzymes speed them up. Without enzymes, the chemical reactions that make up our life would be too slow for life as we know it. (As slow as sap running down a tree in winter). For life to manifest, as we know it, enzymes are essential to speed up the reactions.

We have roughly 3000 enzymes in our bodies and over 7000 enzymatic reactions. Most of these enzymes are derived or created from what we think of as the protein digesting enzymes. But while digestion is an important part of what enzymes do, it’s almost the absolute last function. First and foremost, these body-wide protein-eating enzymes have the following actions:

Natural temperature balance.

Enzymes are the first line of defense against excess heat in the body. (1,2,3). Heat is a reaction by the immune system to an irritation. Let’s say you have an injured right knee. The immune system, sensing the irritation in the knee, creates a protein chain called a Circulating Immune Complex (CIC for short), tagged specifically for that right knee. (The Nobel Prize in biology was won in 1999 by a scientist who found the tagging mechanism). This CIC floats down to the right knee and causes increased temperature. This, at first, is a beneficial reaction; it warns us that a part of ourselves is hurt and needs attention. .