Take this test:

Find Out if you’re deficient in the vital brain chemicals that help make you healthy and happy.

MEN:

1)     Do you have lots of energy and passion at work but not at home? Work is stimulating and challenging, but when you get home, you don’t have energy?

2)     Have you found that your interest and passion declined as your relationship with your partner/spouse continued over the years? You find you avoid eye contact, you’re distracted, and conversations with her are dull?

3)     Are you inattentive and impatient? Have you lost interest in what your partner talks about and can’t focus your attention on what she’s saying?

4)     Are you impulsive? You can’t take time to think through a problem or reflect on your feelings?

5)     Are you forgetful? Does your motivation drop and you forget, but you can always remember football games, important business calls, or problems at work?

6)     Are you solution oriented with your spouse? You always want to solve her problems right away or talk her out of her emotional upset?

7)     Are you unavailable emotionally? Do you need to go somewhere by yourself in your home for long periods and you can’t devote time to listen to your partner?

8)     Do you have tunnel vision? You can focus only on big problems and you ignore the little ones? And even if you know the little ones, you have no energy to put your attention to solving them?

9)     Are you bored and have addictions? Are you bored with most normal life experiences and have developed addictions to escape this boredom? Addictive substances or behaviors such as excessive sports, video games, alcohol, drugs, smoking, sugar, coffee, overworking, oversleeping, over-exercising, excessive TV watching?

10) Do you need space and distance after sex? Do you fall asleep right away after sex?  

WOMEN:

1)     Do you have what Dr. Gray calls temporary amnesia? You’re hungry and your partner waits a while to get food. Your blood sugar level drops and during this period you forget any good thing your partner/spouse has ever done?

2)     Do you have sudden mood changes?

3)     Are you needy at lot of the time? You’re less autonomous that normal?

4)     Do you give too much—often being driven by feelings of excessive caring, obligation and responsibility for others? Do you fail to give yourself what you need?

5)     Are you resentful and hurt when you give too much?

6)     Do you have unrealistic expectations, thinking that your partner knows the way you feel and think? (According to Dr. Gray, most men don’t have a clue what women think and feel.)

7)     Do you feel a need to help your partner even though he may not be asking for help? You’re wanting to change him to improve him and you offer unsolicited advice?

8)     Do you feel overwhelmed? There is too much to do and too little time to do it? You want to always please others?

9)     Are you depressed? (These are signs of depression: chronic distress and despair; strong feelings of guilt and regret; feelings of isolation, abandonment and hopelessness; indifference toward life and relationships; inhibited sex drive; numbness or flatness of feeling; inability to sleep at night; lack of passion or interest; resistance to having fun; unwillingness to make relationships work; chronic fatigue; little or excessive hunger.)

10)   Are you obese and do you eat emotionally to avoid or minimize your feelings of depression?

If you answered YES to a number of these, you may have a brain chemical imbalance.  And according to Dr. Gray, most of us have DO have an imbalance in brain chemistry.

How do we correct the deficiencies and imbalances that may be creating our feelings of depression and overwhelm, ladies, or feeling lack of energy or not being able to focus, men? He says the MAGIC KEY for all of us is in our diets—it’s what we eat that greatly affects our health, happiness and love life.  

Dr. Gray discovered this first hand. He went to Mexico for some treatments for allergies offered by a Nobel-prize winning American medical doctor there. While there he ate what he calls a “perfect” diet: no sugar, no dairy, no bread, no processed foods, no hydrogenated fats. He also tried the doctor’s ozone therapy and intravenous amino acid supplementation treatments. Ozone therapy cleanses the body of viruses and amino acids normalize brain chemistry, according to Dr. Gray. What he saw with these treatments intrigued him:  

     “Every day…I witnessed patients who stopped addictions without any withdrawal symptoms by means of intravenous amino acid supplementation. Patients could come in high on heroin or cocaine and leave in nine days free from addictive cravings...

“Tears of joy would come to their eyes as they shared how happy they were. For the first time in theirs lives, such patients were producing healthy amounts of brain chemicals. All their unhealthy cravings seemingly vanished.”1

 When he returned home, his wife noticed some changes in him. He was more attentive, more affectionate, more helpful and more patient—and he wasn’t even trying. He says, “…my brain had started producing healthy brain chemicals.”2

He began a quest to find a natural way of getting the amino acids our bodies need so that we wouldn’t have to travel to Mexico or get them intravenously. He found a nutrient-dense breakfast meal replacement shake that was rich in the amino acids he was looking for. All he had to do was eat his amino acids.  

The only challenge with oral amino acid supplementation was that a healthy liver is needed to fully convert the amino acids into brain chemicals when the body digests them. The solution was cleansing the liver, and fortunately the company with the meal replacement shake also had a body cleanse.  

     “Weak digestion or a toxic liver blocks the production of brain chemicals…If you strengthen your digestion with enzyme supplements and drink minerals and aloe vera to cleanse the liver, your body can more effectively digest proteins and fats so that the liver can process and convert amino acids into healthy brain chemistry.”3

Thus Dr. Gray was introduced to the Isagenix nutritional cleansing program. The program he initially used is designed for weight loss. He lost 9 lbs. in 9 days.  

“It was easy to lose weight, because the amino acid supplementation took away all cravings for extra food. Correct brain chemistry gives us relaxation and endless energy. With this support for our brain, we stop overeating to get more energy or to find comfort.”4

 With these results, he went to the company’s formulator and asked if the shake and cleanse formula could be tweaked to even better enhance the support for brain chemistry. The answer was “Yes,” and the Mars Venus line of Isagenix products was born.  

These products are formulated to meet the specific needs of each gender. According to Dr. Gray, the Mars Venus Wellness Solution is the first and only program ever created that's designed to support healthy brain chemistry while considering the unique and special needs that make men and women different. And we can lose weight on this program too.  

To find out more about the Mars Venus Wellness Solution and to order products, click on this link:

http://optimalhealthrsq.isagenix.com/us/en/nutrition_marsprog.dhtml  

For those of you who live in Canada , the original Isagenix program that John Gray used is available to you. One program, the 30-day program, is specifically designed for weight loss and will give your body a jump start to health with an abundance of the nutrients it needs for healthy brain chemistry. The 30-day program also provides for a few more cleansing days. The 30-day program can then be followed by the Total Health and Wellness monthly maintenance program, which gives your body what it needs every day for long-term health.  

Click on this links for information on the 30-day program:

http://optimalhealthrsq.isagenix.com/us/en/cleanse_30day.dhtml  

and the Total Health and Wellness program: http://optimalhealthrsq.isagenix.com/us/en/nutrition_maintprog.dhtml  

If you have any questions about the products or ordering, call me, Jane Wilcox, at               845-687-2602        anytime between 9 am and 9 pm EST and I’ll be happy to answer your questions. Or Email me here. 

I started using the original Isagenix nutritional cleansing program in December 2006. After 5-6 weeks, I noticed that I had never felt better in my life. I had a sense of well being that stayed with me for long periods, I had moments of joy and euphoria which I could not attribute to any external source, and I wondered why that was so. I did some research and found out that the Isagenix programs—both the original and the Mars Venus Wellness Solution—helped with brain chemistry. I’m using the Venus products now in conjunction with other original Isagenix products, and I know I’m providing the best nutrition for my body and my state of mind.  

You can also order John Gray’s book The Mars and Venus Diet and Exercise Solution when you place your order and sign up as an associate to get wholesale prices.  

Jane Wilcox

Isagenix Independent Associate and Nutritional Cleansing Coach