How far does it go?

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I went through the mt test a while ago and I have noticed a great change in my body and how I feel in things. I recently read "How to Eat Move and Be Healthy" by Paul Chek and it made me think more about things like hair care products, soap, contact solution, deodorant, sheets, cleaning products, the water we use for other than drinking, TVs, toothpaste and on and on. How far do you go with all this stuff? I mean it almost sounds like we need to become Amish or something. You could also apply it to road work, gas, any restaurant, really everything in everyday life. Do you buy literally everything you can that is organic or made without chemicals? With that do somethings stop becoming as effective? I mean I don't have a problem with buying something and paying more if it makes me healthier but not if it just doesn't do anything. What about things like swimming in the Gulf or the ocean? Is there some kind of list that denotes products for everything that are acceptable? Or where to buy said products? Because places like target, or walmart just don't have much of a selection for things like that. Any help would be awesome.

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This is exactly what I was wondering a while back. What I realized (by reading and listening to Bill Wolcott and others) is that our body is capable of handling a certain amount of stressors or "blocking factors" while still being perfectly healthy. Chronic or degenerative diseases arise when our body is overloaded with blocking factors and cannot overcome them.

Wolcott uses the analogy of a sawhorse. Adding a brick onto the sawhorse will do nothing, even two, three, 10, BUT you get to a point where adding one more breaks the sawhorse. Or, to carry this analogy a little further, even if at a certain point you stop adding blocking factors and the wood seemed to be holding and doing fine, because of the passing of time, the wood will eventually break.

It is the same with our health. The bricks in the analogy were blocking factors and it wasn't just one brick that broke the sawhorse, it was the accumulation of bricks.

So, getting back to your question, you can think of eliminating all blocking factors as the unattainable ideal. What we are striving for is to elliminate as many blocking factors as possible because we never know when we are just one brick away from "breaking."

Regarding the second question, I don't know of any master list of accepatable products. Actually, I think it would be impossible because people may be allergic or sensitive to certain substances. Ideally you want the ingrediant list to be as short as possible with names you can read and understand. You might also try getting an MRT done to check if any of the substances in your products cause a reaction. I for example am sensitive to coconut and many natural products use it.

Hope I helped!

[robwhite]

I think something to bear in mind is that our genes have not changed that much since we were hunter gatherers, and the mroe removed we are from the hunter-gather lifestyle, environment, and diet, the more stress we place on our bodies because our gene expression doesnt optimally thrive when we are so far removed from our hunter-gatherer origins.

If you add up all the issues like not being any where near as active as our ancestors, eating unnatural foods, being surrounded by EMF, chemical (xenoestrogens, plastics, etc.), air polution, and unnatural chronic stressors (we are designed for short bursts of ACUTE stress, not chronic stress ALL the time) from work, finances (think capitalist 'rat race' mentality), etc. i think it is wise to remove as many lesser 'blocking factors' as possible. Personally, I think the blocking factors given on the MT documentation are relatively easy to deal with, and doing so will give you more physical and mental resources to deal with the bigger, more difficult issues i have described above.

It is true that the human body is designed to deal with a certain amount of stressors, and indeed based upon proven theories of 'hormesis', certain levels of stress are needed to keep the immune system healthy, but the type and amount of underlying stressors we are subjected to today is large and quite unnatural (esp. stuff like chemicals, food processing, and EMF) to what we are designed for and what our ancestors would have been subjected to.

I think we are brainwashed into beleiving we 'need' stuff like fluoride in our toothpaste, and half a dozen cleaning agents in our household and personal hygiene products. This is simply nonsence, and many pre-industrialised groups still use the combination of a totally natural diet and simple, cheap, natural products, such as neem oil to clean their teeth, coconut oil for skin moisturiser and sun block, vinegar to wash hair, etc. to stay very healthy. Udo Erasmus's book has soem good examples.

[erictalmant]

Oct 11, 2009 11:16:12 GMT -5 @md1587x said:

This is exactly what I was wondering a while back. What I realized (by reading and listening to Bill Wolcott and others) is that our body is capable of handling a certain amount of stressors or "blocking factors" while still being perfectly healthy. Chronic or degenerative diseases arise when our body is overloaded with blocking factors and cannot overcome them.

Wolcott uses the analogy of a sawhorse. Adding a brick onto the sawhorse will do nothing, even two, three, 10, BUT you get to a point where adding one more breaks the sawhorse. Or, to carry this analogy a little further, even if at a certain point you stop adding blocking factors and the wood seemed to be holding and doing fine, because of the passing of time, the wood will eventually break.

It is the same with our health. The bricks in the analogy were blocking factors and it wasn't just one brick that broke the sawhorse, it was the accumulation of bricks.

So, getting back to your question, you can think of eliminating all blocking factors as the unattainable ideal. What we are striving for is to elliminate as many blocking factors as possible because we never know when we are just one brick away from "breaking."

Regarding the second question, I don't know of any master list of accepatable products. Actually, I think it would be impossible because people may be allergic or sensitive to certain substances. Ideally you want the ingrediant list to be as short as possible with names you can read and understand. You might also try getting an MRT done to check if any of the substances in your products cause a reaction. I for example am sensitive to coconut and many natural products use it.

Hope I helped!

Excellent advice David! RIGHT ON THE MONEY!

[erictalmant]

Oct 11, 2009 8:38:47 GMT -5 @nelsonsprague said:

I went through the mt test a while ago and I have noticed a great change in my body and how I feel in things. I recently read "How to Eat Move and Be Healthy" by Paul Chek and it made me think more about things like hair care products, soap, contact solution, deodorant, sheets, cleaning products, the water we use for other than drinking, TVs, toothpaste and on and on. How far do you go with all this stuff? I mean it almost sounds like we need to become Amish or something. You could also apply it to road work, gas, any restaurant, really everything in everyday life. Do you buy literally everything you can that is organic or made without chemicals? With that do somethings stop becoming as effective? I mean I don't have a problem with buying something and paying more if it makes me healthier but not if it just doesn't do anything. What about things like swimming in the Gulf or the ocean? Is there some kind of list that denotes products for everything that are acceptable? Or where to buy said products? Because places like target, or walmart just don't have much of a selection for things like that. Any help would be awesome.

Nelson:

In your additional documents that came with your MT package, there are several that talk about and deal with blocking factors. In fact, there are two very specific check lists: "Program Enhancers" and "Blocking Factors".

I also discuss this extensively in Video #9 (scroll down):

www.erictalmant.com/videos.html