My son is 8 and still wets the bed every night if I don't wake him at 11:00.  1/3 of the time he wets AGAIN even if I get him up.

 

Schedule:

6:00 .. last drink

9:00 bathroom & bed

11:00 wake him up or we have wet bed by 11:30

 

There was a 30 day period when I thought we had trained him out of it .. but then the problem restarted.

 

He handles it well but hates being wet. Do you know of any natural anti-diuretics .. or any other ideas?

 

Thank You.

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Gary:
Bed wetting can not be "trained" out of a child if there is an underlying set of physiological drivers.

There are several mineral deficiencies that are associated with bed wetting: NaSO4, KH2PO4, NaPO4, FePO4, CaF2, KCl, and MgHPO4.

Deficiencies of these minerals are prevalent nowadays, especially in children who are raised on a low fats-hi-carb processed foods diet that is low in unprocessed grains, vegetables, meat, fish, eggs, full cream milk.  Noodles, children's cereals (especially those that claim to build strong athletes!), all margarines, reduced fat milk and yogurt, white rice, soy and rice milk are very much at fault.

If the mother has been on a mostly low fat diet during pregnancy and breast-feeding, her consequent deficiencies are passed on to her child.

These minerals have many functions in the body, including promoting healthy kidney and bladder function.  If, for example, there are mineral deficiencies that heighten muscle and nervous tension, then the bladder may be reduced in size and, therefore, capacity to store urine for the duration of sleep will be insufficient.  If muscles and nerves tire quickly, then tiny muscles of the urethra may relax during sleep, allowing the bladder to empty.

The easiest, safest and most effective way, in addition to making dietary improvements, to correct any imbalances is to give your child Active Elements 4.1 and 4.3.  Break the tablets in half and give half of each every two hours, including before sleep washed down with a small glass of lukewarm water (as an alternative, he can chew and swallow the tablets and then wash the residue with a little water - not too much water before bed!).  If he wakes at night, give another half tablet of each before putting him down again.

Once symptoms of bed wetting abate, reduce to three half tablets over the day with the last at bed time and another whenever he wakes due to peeing, or feeling the urge.

Give me an email update about every two weeks, thank you.  If there is a failure to make progress within a few weeks, there are always alternatives worth trying.

Here is the link to the Active Elements product page.

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Are Epsom Salts safe to take for night cramps?

"I have researched your material on Epsom salts and can’t find anywhere any information

on taking them orally. I have for a long time suffered with chronic night cramps and recently

was advised to take half a teaspoon in fruit juice each morning. I started taking them a week ago, have worked

some long hours (mostly on my feet) and am pleased to say have not had cramp once.

Can you advise please are Epsom salts harmful in any way when taken orally or harmful with prolonged use

In this manner?

I look forward to your comments.

Regards Heather "
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Gary responds:
Heather, taking account of your age (54) and the additional information about your diet and your initial response to the MgSO4 salts, I can make some assumptions:

• There is a possibility that you are low in a number of minerals, including iron and magnesium.
• You may be low in Co-Enzyme Q-10

About magnesium sulphate
Magnesium, as it is found in the body is in the form of Magnesium Phosphate (MgPO4), not as Magnesium Sulphate (MgSO4). MgSO4 is typically used externally to provide a relaxing bath and as a poultice. It is taken orally as a laxative. As a magnesium mineral replacement, I do not recommend it. I would not take it orally for the long term. It is much better to take magnesium in the form that is found in the healthy body (MgPO4).

Recommendations:

• Do a course of Active Elements 4.1 and 4.2
• Do a course of AgeWise Co-Enzyme Q10

Q-10

• Take one capsule 3 per day
• 2nd bottle - take 2 per day
• 3rd bottle and ongoing - take 1 per day

Active Elements

• Take one of each 4-6 per day
• 2nd bottle and ongoing - take 2 per day

With all of the above, spread over the day and ideally take with food.

Take careful note of frequency and severity of cramps, energy levels, skin health and health in general. Always review progress at about 6-12 weeks.

Let me know how it goes and advise of any problems.

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Which mineral supplement is best?

"Is there a mineral supplement on the market that contains the proper ratios of minerals?"
Clinton
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Gary responds:
Since the beginning of this year I have had second thoughts about multi vitamins and multi mineral supplements.  This is after completing two courses by different agencies on mineral therapy.  There is no "one size fits all" supplement.

When one looks at the makeup of minerals within a healthy body, even going so far as to examine the mineral differences between various healthy organs, such as the bones versus the liver, we find there are twelve salts made up of 18 elements (plus some trace minerals).  The amount of each varies by organ; so the liver contains high ratios of ferrous sulphate whereas the bones have much higher ratios of calcium phosphate to the other 11.  

Given that there are specific salts in exact ratios in each healthy organ, it just does not make sense to bombard the body with a whole lot of minerals using a "one size fits all" approach.  Many mineral supplements are chemically designed so that the mineral forces its way into the cell. Chelated minerals are examples of this.  While this may quickly correct the deficiency of the mineral, it may cause a huge imbalance between minerals, so one must take great care with these.

If calcium phosphate is what is found in the healthy body, so it does not make sense to pump calcium carbonate or calcium gluconate into the body as a supplement.  If calcium flouride is what is found naturally in the body, it does not make sense to put sodium flouride into our drinking water.

The better approach is to assess as best one can, which tissue salts are most likely to be lacking and to gradually drizzle identical salts into the body over several weeks in amonts that the body is able to absorb without the risk of overload.  Only the salts that are assessed to be lacking are replaced and not the ones that appear to be least in need.  

This is why the Active Elements programme replenishes only up to eight of the 12 tissue salts at any time.  The process of constant review may result in a change in formulation as the tissue salts are replenished.  It is a bit like herding sheep into a narrow pen - heading as steadily and patiently as one can in one direction while being prepared to chop and change a little in response to constantly varying symptoms.

Taking as much guesswork out of mineral therapy saves a person money because only those minerals that one really needs are prescribed.

So, I am most in favour of the Active Elements programme for mineral prescription.  It is best done in conjubnction with readings from a set of Salter 9106 scales which provide accurate feedback on nutrition, exercise and other health interventions.  I am almost giving these away so that clients can send me regular, accurate body composition information.

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I have added a new newsletter to GaryMoller.com

I now have over 190 people using the Active Elements tissue salts therapy with the numbers increasing daily. In response to demand, a separate blog - come - newsletter has been created that concentrates on tissue salts therapy. I will be doing regular updates, including answering questions as best I can.

Here is the link for a preview.

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Training for a marathon or cycle training - Advice about what to drink

If you are a training regularly and sweating a lot then you need to drink at least as much water as you lose in a session. You can work out how much water is lost in a training session by weighing yourself before and after. If, for example, you drank one liter of water during the training and you still lost one kilogram in weight, that equates to a two liter loss of water during the training with a one liter deficit. So, that means you need to drink one liter of water - and a little more - in the hour or so after exercise.

Rather than have sugary drinks and foods after the training and competition which rot your teeth and gums, predispose you to diabetes and chronic nutrient deficiency, an athlete is better served drinking plain water and consuming food that is rich in protein, essential fatty acids, vitamins and carbohydrates - and minerals. My Super Smoothie recipe for example.

It makes no sense at all to drink and eat nutrient poor processed carbohydrate foods and sugary sports drinks that are often extremely acidic and laced with colourings and flavourings. Some sports drinks come with "revitalising B vitamins". But they omit telling you that they have left out the B vitamins that make the drink urine coloured. This is hardly healthy.

I spoke with Dr Les Fisher, the man behind the Active Elements programme. For electrolyte replacement before, during and after exercise, he recommends taking one Active Elements 3.1 tablet before the exercise. During the exercise the athlete can take one or two more depending on the sweating rate and then one or two after. The only fluid needed is good old plain water. If it is in preparation for a really exhausting event like a marathon, or the cycling or triathlon equivalent, then the athlete might commence the Active 3.1 supplementation several times over the day leading up to the event.

Active 3.1 contains the tissue mineral salts most needed during intense exercise and heavy sweating for strong circulation and to prevent or relieve muscle cramping - Sodium Phosphate, Potassium Phosphate and Magnesium Phosphate.

During exercise, such as running a marathon or half marathon, the athlete can place the Active 3.1 tablet under the tongue and let it gradually dissolve. This way, some of the salt is absorbed sub lingually (Through the profusion of blood vessels under the tongue), straight into the blood stream.


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"Drink more water, drink, drink, drink".

That's the message we hear time and time again from the sports fitness industry and the commercial interests that have a vested interest in promoting the sales of bottled water. They tell us that the key to health and longevity is to drink more water, but is this really true?

The problem is, when dealing with people face-to-face about health issues, I just can not see a connection between how much water one drinks and health. The opposite might be the case: The more water one drinks, the more likely there are chronic health issues like lack of energy, weight gain, weak bones, aching joints and muscles and so on. How could this be? The following is some informed, healthy speculation:

The answer may be to do with distortion of the delicate salt balance within each cell. There are 12 salts found inside the cell (Referred to as the "salts of Schussler"): Sodium phosphate, sodium, sulphate, sodium chloride, potassium phosphate, potassium sulphate, potassium chloride, calcium phosphate, calcium sulphate, calcium fluoride, iron phosphate and silicon dioxide.

Too little of any of these salts, or an imbalance, and the health of the cell is compromised and this shows as failing energy and eventual ill health of all descriptions.

The modern diet lacks most of these salts while supplying enormous amounts of sodium chloride. Tissue salts are lost daily through the urine, sweat and the shedding of skin and hair. If one drinks lots of water, especially if it is distilled, precious tissue salts are flushed out of the system. Some medications, like blood pressure diuretics, accelerate this loss of tissue salts.

If there is insufficient of any of the 12 tissue salts in the cells, the cell reduces its water content to maintain as near a healthy salt electrolyte balance as it can in these less than perfect circumstances. If there is an excess of any of the 12 salts in relation to the others, the excess is discarded while those in short supply are retained to ensure the correct concentration is retained within the cells. This explains why the percentage hydration of the body tends to decline with age: The desperate attempts of the body to maintain a viable salt balance.

The graphs associated with this article are of people of differing age, gender, fitness and health. These are the results of "bioelectrical impedance analysis" (BIA) which allows us to work out the ratios of fat, muscle, bone and water in the body. With age, the percent water in the cells tends to decline from a healthy 60+% to 50% or even lower. But this need not be the inevitable result of ageing, as these charts indicate. Tissue dehydration is more closely associated with a diet that is deficient in the tissue salts, inactivity and ill health than age. Incidentally, all of the people graphed with tissue water 60% or greater have undergone a course of tissue salt therapy.

The answer, to me, is to have a diet that is rich in salts, as opposed to industrially processed foods that tend to be soaked in sodium chloride alone. This pretty much equates to the traditional diets of native societies as one would find in places like Samoa and Okinawa prior to the destructive influence of Western food processing. For most of us, a course in supplementing tissue salts would appear to be warranted, especially as we get older. Get this right and the water issue pretty much takes care of itself.

So, how much water should one drink to be healthy? The answer is different for each person because so much depends on size (volume), metabolism, temperature, humidity, type of activity, duration and so on. A general of thumb is to drink sufficient water daily to be peeing 3-6 times a day while not having to get up in the middle of the night due to a bursting bladder. I will write in more detail in a follow up article.

Note: For more information about the importance of tissue salts for health, try a Google or Yahoo internet search for "Active Elements Gary Moller". To do the free Active Elements Assessment which includes a free report prepared by me (Gary Moller), please go here to log in and get started.

Footnote:
You can now easily monitor subtle changes in body composition (And therefore your overall state of health) and you can do this at home. All you need is a body composition analyser - The

Salter 9106. These personal weighing scales with body composition analysis technology costs less than $100. They are remarkably accurate and consistent and use a technology that cost almost $5,000 for just a few years ago. Such is the progress of technology. Or you can search for them in a store near you (Salter is an international brand). You need the 9106 model which is the machine I use and which my results database is collected from.

The Salter 9106 accurately measures weight, fat, bone, water, and muscle - thus providing an accurate measure of health status. As one's health diminishes, fatness usually increases while hydration and leanness decreases. The converse is true as health improves.

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How to sign up for the Active Elements assessment

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Active Elements Nutrient Testing Service

The Active Elements^® Assessment

Existing clients: Please go here to log in with your User Name and Password

New Clients:

Active Elements are Practitioner Only ProductsYou must complete a consultation with Gary Moller before you purchase any of the Active  Elements products. Please complete the Active  Elements Assessement.  Then please complete the consultation form to the right of the pages of www.garymoller.com to arrange for your report to be sent to you and to discuss your results with Gary Moller (Complete the "Practitioner Only Purchase" Form).  You may then make your final product purchasing decision.  

"You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency." - Dr. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner
"I feel GREAT already!!! My eyes feel like their wide open not half asleep. Got loads more energy.....feel much happier and not so worn out. Went for a walk last night after work and am going to get me some gear for the pool this week also." Kylee


New Clients: How to complete the Active Elements assessment
Please go to my Active Elements Log In page here.
The first question the system will ask you will be: "Is this your first assessment?" You should answer, ‘YES’. You will then be required to enter your basic details and to provide your own ‘Username’ and ‘Password’, which you must then use on future visits to the website (please remember your username and password).


Important:
At the very end of the questionnaire, you’ll have the opportunity to enter any comments that you may feel are important or relevant to your case (the more you can tell me about yourself the better).
In confidence, please tell me the following:

• Tell me why you are doing this assessment and what you hope to get out of it
• List all health and fitness issues and tell me if you are under the care of a health professional
• List all medications and supplements and the reasons for taking them
• List everything that you have eaten and drunk in the last 24 hours
• Tell me about your exercise background and describe yourself - height, weight and so on

New Clients: Having trouble getting started? Please go here go guidance
The questionnaire will take you about 15 minutes to complete.

Here is the log in page again: my Active Elements Log In page

Gary Moller
DipPhEd PGDipRehab PGDipSportMed (Otago) FCE Certified, Nutra-Life & Kordel’s Certified Natural Health Consultant, Active Elements Certified.