
Young Living's Progessence Plus® is what we call a highly micronized bio-identical
(human) progesterone in it has a natural Vitamin E base with a set of special
essential oils like frankincense, copaiba, and sandalwood. The base of essential
oils enhance the absorption through the skin and has wonderfully calming benefit
as well.
This is an excerpt from a Teaching by Doug Corrigan, Keys to Health on the importance of Life 5 #Probiotic and True Source #Nutrients (http://www.younglivinglink.com/?p=1173)
I’m going to introduce these products today in what I consider the
order of importance; first and foremost, Life 5 probiotic. Although both of
these products are really, really essential and goodness knows that if you are
deficient in any of the vitamins or minerals that you find in True Source, just
one of those things could be the difference between feeling poorly and really
feeling great again. But before we go into those things it’s important to lay a
little bit of a foundation. Many of you will know that what makes these
nutrients essential – and that’s different than what makes an essential oil
essential – but what makes a nutrient essential are a couple things. First and
foremost is that the body cannot produce any, or cannot produce enough, of this
nutrient on its own. Second, if you don’t get enough of this nutrient you will
develop a deficiency disease; good examples of that are rickets, scurvy,
beriberi, but any of these nutrients are essential and if you don’t get enough,
you will develop some kind of a disorder. Lastly, if you don’t get any of an
essential nutrient, you would die.
When we say essential nutrients there are really 2 classifications of
essential nutrients, the first of those being macronutrients which are water;
carbohydrates, like sugars complex and simple; fiber; proteins, which is a wide
comprehensive group of amino acids; and then lastly fats, which are omega-3
fats, omega-6, omega-9, but all the different fats and there are many fats other
than just omega fats. Those are all macronutrients. Then there is the whole set
of micronutrients; when we talk about micronutrients we’re talking about
vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes, and probiotics.
Specifically today we’re going to be addressing a couple of different
categories of micronutrients – a multivitamin that contains vitamins, minerals,
and antioxidants; and then Life 5, which contains probiotics. I’m often fond of
saying that I come to you as a messenger of the plant kingdom but first today
though, I’m coming to you as a messenger of the kingdom of prokaryote, or the
bacteria kingdom. That’s because probiotics are one of the most fascinating
emerging sciences. Emerging research is discovering so many fascinating things
about the world of beneficial bacteria, which is what probiotics are. Emerging
research has discovered that there are potent and far-reaching health benefits
to virtually every body system and in fact the word probiotic really means “to
promote life.”
Your gut is where these probiotics, these beneficial bacteria, do most of
their work. Those of you who know natural health know that the gut plays such a
critical role in optimum health, far more critical than most people realize. In
fact, in the newborn and growing and developing fetus, the gut tube is the very
first thing that develops. Doesn’t that make sense because the gut tube is where
your original energy is absorbed and the raw materials are absorbed to create
the rest of the structure, and that’s the mind and then the rest of the body and
organs and all the different parts of the organ systems. That all occurs first
and foremost by the energy that’s produced through the gut, and so the gut
remains throughout your entire life a critical, critical part of health, and
that healthy digestive tract is where this absorption continues that helps to
deliver nutrients to cells and helps to replenish your body. In addition, your
gut helps to eliminate undesirable and damaging substances such as harmful
bacteria, toxins, chemicals, other waste products. One of the critical parts of
gut health is this balance between beneficial bacteria and harmful bacteria.
According to nutrition and immune expert Simin Meydani, PhD, at Tufts
University, the gut is the largest immune organ in the body, accounting for 25%
of the immune cells in the body, that provide 50% of the body’s immune response.
Now until recently scientists believed that probiotics played a somewhat passive
role in immunity simply by displacing harmful organisms in the gut. However, now
scientists understand that probiotics also enhance natural killer cell activity,
which are critical immune system cells that rapidly respond to viral infections
and of course tumor formations, anything of a pathogenic nature that’s causing
you trouble.