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I add lemon juice to chlorophyll because chlorophyll has a dull and blank taste that is uncomfortable for me. With lemon, it’s a drink that I enjoy taking every morning.

If you have other health issues you want to work on, you can add other nutrients or liquids to this green drink. You can add a few drops of a product called Oxygen Elements Plus, which also is good for constipation and helps to detoxify your colon even more. You can add Alkalife, an alkaline water booster, which adds minerals to your drink.

From clients that I have worked with, I have found that this chlorophyll drink helps them get better blood test results. Their blood is a little thinner. They carry more oxygen into cells. Their blood cell count goes up.

Use this drink and you will keep drinking every morning just like I do, especially if you like lemon juice.

Unfortunately, experts agree that it is nearly impossible to adequately meet your nutritional needs with our modern diet alone. Our soils have been depleted of most essential nutrients since 1930’s. Farmers regularly replace nutrients required for plant growth-nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, but it is up to us to replace minerals and other nutrients missing from our diets.

Modern processing and marketing techniques also contribute to our lack of adequate nutrition. Produce picked in it’s green state, then allowed to ‘ripen’ in transit to market often lacks nutritional quality of their field ripened cousins.

Poor nutrition combined with stress of our modern lifestyle and constant exposure to environmental toxins means it is unreasonable to expect good health in our mature years (or any year, for that matter) without adequate supplementation.

Picking correct supplement is essential to your health as well. The vast array of options are enough to make your head spin. Testing by independent labs show huge differences in quality between brands. The cheapest drug store ‘has everything’ vitamin may not have much in way of active ingredients, but most expensive brands may not, either. Once again, take time to do research. Find out what quality control methods company uses. Are their products manufactured to pharmaceutical standards? What is company’s commitment to using best available ingredients and how do they test for ingredient quality?

In addition, investigate latest scientific evidence on what nutrients are needed for good health. There have been important breakthroughs recently in our understanding of what cells need to function and how proper cellular nutrition contributes to body’s ability to restore and repair itself. Find a nutrition company whose products reflect these advances.

The last, and perhaps most important way to stay healthy as years go by, is to pay attention to you. Respect yourself enough to take care of your physical needs. If something needs fixing, do it. Learn to like yourself if you haven’t already. Don’t just feed your body, feed your mind as well. Make your brain work. Take time to laugh everyday. Laughter stimulates immune system and just plain makes living more fun. Do things in life that give you pleasure. After all, there is more to life than work and worry. You deserve to be happy, but it is up to you to BE happy. When it comes down to it, you are all you’ve got. Be someone whose company you enjoy.

Doing all these things won’t guarantee you a long, healthy life. After all, “times and unforeseen circumstances befall us all”. But they may help time you do have on this planet be enjoyable for you and those whose life you impact. Best wishes for a good life!

Karen Walker is a life long student of healthy living. She works from her home in Montana.