This email was sent to me by Anna Lozo, who has completed most Thrive Classes. I couldn’t have said it better myself!

Michelle Russell

hi guys,

for those who are interested in health information that isn't easy to come by in the allopathic (mainstream) medical world, check out www.mercola.com.

for those who aren't, hit the delete button as quickly as you can, before you get infected by the evil warlords of planet health, who are out see packets of tim tams and cartons of soft drinks languishing on supermarket shelves, unloved and unwanted for 51 weeks out of every year. [gasp of horror: not the tim tams!!]

basically mercola aims to combat a situation that exists today where people are slowly poisoning themselves to death by the lifestyle choices they make - choices that are largely based on "health advice" which is actually an impression created deliberately by the marketing arms of large organisations such as pharmaceutical and petrochemical companies, big tobacco, and the multi-million dollar meat, dairy and wheat industries, with no other purpose than to generate sales for that company. for example, TV ads for pain relief tablets will often have some credible celebrity waxing lyrical about how the "problem" of headache or back pain can be "fixed" within minutes just by taking a couple of pills, and nowhere does it mention how toxic these chemicals are to the human body. what these ads fail to mention is that headaches and back pain are NOT problems - they are a message sent to our brain by our body to let us know that we have in some way interfered with the body's natural processes - and that these chemicals which promise to fix the problem are actually quite toxic to the body and, combined with the hundreds of other toxins that we are knowingly or unknowingly pumping into our bodies on a daily basis, are resulting in epidemics of "lifestyle diseases" such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. these diseases aren't things you "catch", like polio or the ebola virus. they are signs that your body is falling apart after too much abuse.

what many people aren't aware of is that they are being manipulated by these companies, because it is human nature, particularly when under enormous amounts of negative stress (lack of sleep, work pressures, lack of time, traffic jams, fights with co-workers or family members, postural stress from sitting at a computer all day long, etc), to want an easy option, a quick fix, something that will "make it go away because i don't need this right now on top of everything else i have to deal with". if you're running around with a pack of extra-strength headache pills in your bag or in your desk that's replaced regularly, congratulations, you've been manipulated. if you think that drinking cow's milk is the only way to get enough calcium, or that eating red meat is the only way to get enough iron, or that pure ascorbic acid vitamin c tablets actually deliver vitamin c into your body, congratulations, you've been manipulated. if you think that cancer is something that happens to you and the only way to beat it is with radiation and chemotherapy, congratulations, you've been manipulated. if you think that a cold or flu is something that you catch and that anti-cold and flu tablets, or antibiotics, are the only way to combat it, congratulations, you've been manipulated. don't believe it? try this on: is a used car salesman bending over backwards to help you because his mission in life is to make your life better by getting you a car? puh-leeze; if it was he'd be working for free and your car would be a helluva lot cheaper! still convinced those innocent looking little white (even the colour of innocence and purity has been used) pills are there for your benefit?