Two thousand eight is on the horizon. In moments it will be here and a new year starts again. This year will be big on using natural remedies to cure your own illness and conditions. For those of you that have been reading and studying the use of natural remedies, you are 10 steps ahead of everyone else.

There are a tremendous number of people that are not familiar with using natural remedies. My sister who is a head nurse knows very little about them. My whole family lacks this knowledge, except my eleven year old.

Yes the new generation will be brought up using natural remedies more than the past generation. History is repeating itself. The young willingly accept the idea that vitamins, minerals, herbs, and food can prevent or cure illness.

But, this idea of natural remedies does not sit well with the FDA or the AMA. They are hard at work trying to pass legislation that will regulate natural remedies just as drugs are - dispensed only by a doctor. Doctors that suggest you take vitamins or natural remedies to prevent illness, if discovered by the AMA, will lose their licenses. Studies, research, discoveries, or experiments that indicate natural remedies can prevent or cure illness are ridiculed by the medical industry.

If people use more natural remedies - vitamins, minerals, herbs, homeopathic salts, special nutrients, or even food - to prevent or cure illness, then they will use less drugs. Pharmaceuticals will lose money. They are not going to stand by and let this happen. They have already been busy for years providing disinformation on natural remedies. Most every famous naturopath has been pursed by the government and discredited for revealing how natural remedies can cure your illness. This is not going to change in 2008.

What is going to change are those of you who are awake to natural remedies and many new people who are going to awaken are going to start using more natural remedies to prevent illness.

In my past newsletters, I have written you to eat more fruits and their juices for breakfast. This helps your body to detoxify the toxins collected during your sleep. Eating a heavy, solid breakfast interferes with your natural detoxification cycle causing the liver to store night toxins in your cells as fat.

I have suggested that you strive for 2 bowel movements per day to keep unused and undigested food moving through your colon and not stagnating. You do this by eating more fruits and vegetables and by eating less processed food, which has a hard time moving through your colon.

I have told you to take digestive enzymes and probiotics. Even if you are 25 or 30, take digestive enzymes and save your body's ability to create these enzymes for a rainy sick day. Enzymes are used in hundreds of body, chemical, reactions and not just for digesting food. Saving your digestive enzymes for when you need them is a smart move.

Supplement with specific vitamins, minerals, or special nutrients. Studies have shown that those who supplements live longer, healthier lives than those who don't.

Stress is the number one killer, so reduce stress. Stress creates hormonal imbalances and causes your endocrine system to overwork. Endocrine organs - thyroid, pancreas, spleen - that become overworked lose function and this leads to disease. Stress causes your adrenal to release excess cortisol, which causes brain cell damage and imbalances in your sugar and testosterone levels. Always look for ways to reduce stress, since this will increase your life span.