Chapter
One
The modern world and
particularly America is in a crisis. Everyday we hear more
bad news: not just in our own lives but everywhere in the
news. We are bombarded with messages like: one
in five boys are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive
Disorder, teen suicides, violence and drug abuse have sky
rocketed, one out of every two new marriages ends in divorce,
one out of every two men over 50 will suffer prostrate problems,
one out of three women will endure cancer, 65% of our population
is overweight, millions of women are clinically depressed
and dependant on psycho-active drugs to get out of bed in
the morning and millions of men depend on prescription drugs
to perform sexually in bed. ENOUGH! The list
just goes on and on. You don't need this book to remind you.
The Mars
and Venus Diet and Exercise Solution provides
a practical and easy solution for the whole list. The whole
list? Yes, the whole list! I am not saying this is the answer
to all our problems. It is not a panacea nor is it a pill
you can just take. It doesn't solve all problems. But when
it comes to health, happiness and lasting romance the answer
is here. You have come to the right place.
It is called The
Mars and Venus Diet and Exercise Solution because
it addresses the unique needs of men and women. It is amazing
that with all the hundreds of diet and exercise books, self
help books and psychology manuals, no one has pointed out
how men and women react differently to food and exercise?
In other books, a general one size fits all, unisex solution
is suggested without reference to the facts about gender!
How
Food and Exercise Affect Men and Women Differently.
Let's look
at some issues that are not commonly known or expressed in
other books and programs:
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Did you know that
the same diet plan may cause a woman to gain
weight while a man will
lose weight?
Did you know that
a man's diet is
primarily responsible for fatigue at the end of his work
day and not how much he has worked?
Did you know that
a woman's diet can contribute more significantly to her
feelings of fulfillment
than the behaviors of her partner?
Do you know the
reasons why women require
more cuddling and affection and men
require more sex to experience healthy brain
chemistry?
Do you know why
more men have the symptoms
of low dopamine and more women
have the symptoms of low serotonin? Do you know why
90% the people who seek out counseling are women.
Do you know why
90% of the people in jail are men or why
90% of the children with ADD or ADHD are boys
and not girls.
Do you know why
women are four times more prone to seasonal depression
than men?
Do you know why
the same exercise program to assist a man in loosing weight
will inhibit weight loss in a woman as well
as produce food cravings?
Do you know why
certain food combinations will put a man to sleep but put
a woman in the mood.
Do you know why
skipping breakfast in the morning for a woman will not only
contribute to depression but cause weight gain
but for a man it may create an endorphin high to be followed
by low energy and overeating at the end of the work day?
Do you know the
different reasons why men
and women become addicted to alcohol and drugs?
Do you know why
male and female depression have completely different symptoms
and different solutions?
Do you know why
exercise in general is not good for obese women to
begin loosing weight but is absolutely essential for obese
men?
Do you know why
breakfast is the most important meal of the day to
produce the healthy brain chemistry responsible for health,
happiness and lasting romance.
Did you know that
most people who take drugs
like Prozac or children who are prescribed with drugs like
Ritalin are not truly mentally ill or brain damaged but
are just nutritionally deficient.
Throughout the Mars
and Venus Diet and Exercise Solution you will
gain the insight to understand these little known gender differences,
as well as many more. You will gain the benefit of cutting
edge research that most doctors, personal trainers and best
selling authors are not even aware of. Finally you will have
the clarity to make sense of your health, happiness and romance
without being confused by the myriad of conflicting points
of view that are presented by best selling books, research
studies and different authorities.
You will have the necessary
and basic information of nutrition, exercise, brain chemistry,
sex hormones and stress management.
Once you have all the
pieces of the puzzle in front of you, suddenly it all fits
neatly together and you realize why diets, exercise programs
or relationships may have failed in the past as well as why
this new insight works.
Regardless of past
regrets, with this new insight you will be even more motivated
to try again and this time succeed by creating the neuro chemistry
of health, happiness and lasting romance.
Putting
All the Pieces Together
While researching
this topic over the past ten years, since I wrote the book
on Mars and Venus, I have asked the question, "How
does diet and exercise affect men and women differently?"
Most of the time even experts I have interviewed don't have
a ready answer. But as I have continued to ask more questions,
with the help of many experts and thousands of research papers,
along with years of personal experimentation, the pieces started
to come together.
With this new information
you will gain insights that are based on modern medical research
combined with ancient knowledge as well. In some ways you
will know more than most researchers. In the world of research,
the experts specialize. They have a particular agenda and
focus on accomplishing just that. They are often not aware
of other fields of specialization. Over the past thirty years,
I have gleaned the pearls of insight contained in this book
from specialists in five completely different areas of interest:
brain chemistry, diet, exercise, romance, and stress management.
I have gathered information
from little known brain chemistry research which is geared
primarily to help the mentally ill. While most people are
not brain damaged or mentally ill they do however display
certain mild symptoms that mirror the more severe symptoms
of the mentally ill.
Most
people today display certain mild symptoms that mirror the
more severe symptoms of the mentally ill.
Although many millions
of American's have been diagnosed with mental illness and
require psychoactive drugs, it is my experience and many researchers
that these people are just suffering from nutritional deficiency
as opposed to brain damage or some genetic defect. Once the
brain is fed the proper food through amino acid supplementation,
the symptoms of mental illness immediately begin to disappear,
sometimes in just days.
These brain researchers
however know very little about the issues of healthy loving
couples seeking to have lasting romance or the millions of
people who are mildly depressed seeking help to find that
extra something that is missing in there lives. Yet the same
imbalance of neuro-transmitters associated with the different
aspects of mental illness also applies to most 'normal neuroses'
that I have observed as a counselor.
Cutting
edge brain researchers know little about applying
their ideas to healing 'normal neuroses'.
While many therapists,
counselors and teachers are experts in day to day concerns
of stress management they are not experts in weight management,
health or diet. They are not aware of how nutrition affects
our mental health which in turn affects weight gain or loss.
Many teachers and
programs are great for teaching relaxation techniques and
meditation but they know much less about the importance of
exercise and diet and how it contributes to our state of mind
as well as our ability to cope with stress.
As counselors begin
using this research to assist clients with depression and
anxiety disorders as well as relationship problems, the road
to recovery will become newly paved. As a marriage counselor
I have discovered that most problems couples experience can
be resolved by educating them about the differences between
men and women.
Once
we begin to understand, accept and respect our partner's style
of communication then we can immediately become more successful
in giving and receiving love.
Yet even with these
essential insights, without a healthy diet and exercise program
to support the necessary brain chemistry, many men and women
just don't have the energy or peace of mind to put into practice
what seemed so easy in the beginning of a relationship.
Too often people join
a twelve step program and succeed in giving up an alcohol,
drug or relationship addiction only to replace it with a coffee,
smoking or sugar addiction. While certainly this is a positive
step, they will still suffer from the stress and distress
that is associated with any addictive behavior until they
balance brain chemistry. Emotional healing or recovery is
never complete until we also balance our diet and exercise
as well. Any and all addictive behaviors are symptoms of brain
imbalance.
Too often people join
a twelve step program to succeed in giving up one addiction
but then replace it with another.
Then there is the current
research about diet brilliantly expressed in many of the best
selling diet books. While there are many diet experts with unique
and effective plans for losing weight they often know little
about the ways brain chemistry or communication skills and romance
affect our eating habits. As a result many of their suggestions
temporarily work but if people are not eating to balance brain
chemistry or communicating in ways to stimulate certain hormones
it can be nearly impossible to stay on a healthy diet.
Current
diet plans say little about stimulating the correct brain
chemicals
to achieve optimum health and weight management.
Then there are the
experts in exercise, while they have a lot to contribute many
are not yet aware of how different types of exercise affect
brain chemistry. There are many trainers who push their clients
too hard only to lose them when they don't lose weight or
begin to eat more again and gain weight.
In this book, I have
put it all together for you in one simple package: a lean
body of information and insight that is not only easy to understand
but effortless to practically adapt to any lifestyle. It is
not designed to replace any programs that are already working
for you.
Instead think
of it as an easy to apply supplement to enrich the programs
you are already enjoying; you will get the benefit of being
an expert in the following fields:
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Diet, nutrition
and weight management.
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Essential physical
exercises for stimulating the lymph system, endocrine
system, cerebral spinal fluid and brain system and for
toning your muscles while stimulating the metabolism.
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Brain chemistry
for mental health and happiness.
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Relationship, communication
and romantic issues that affect both hormonal balance in
the body and brain chemistry balance.
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Stress and mood
management for a longer, healthier and happier life.
Studying each of these
fields over the last thirty years with particular emphasis
on the health and nutrition aspects during the last ten years
has finally helped me create the Mars and Venus
Diet and Exercise Solution.
While many of the
insights and tools have taken me thirty years to test and
develop with thousands of clients, it was in the year 2002
that it all began to come together with the missing understanding
of 'activated amino acid supplementation'
for establishing the correct brain balance. With this newly
discovered piece of the puzzle, suddenly the benefits of all
the other well tested messages I have previously shared exponentially
exploded.
People have always
benefited greatly from my books, tapes and seminars but now
with the foundation of balanced brain chemistry the benefits
are not only much greater but can be easily sustained. Not
only will adults benefit more from my relationship insights
but parents will much more easily be able to apply the many
useful insights contained in my book, Children
Are From Heaven. Whether you use my suggested
parenting techniques or not, any parenting system works better
when your children are not suffering from the brain imbalances
responsible for ADD, ADHD and OCD.
With
crucial insights from each of these five different fields
of expertise you will have the basics to understand the answers
to all your questions.
Ninety
Percent Effective!
You don't have to dedicate
yourself to a long difficult dietary and exercise regime only
to find out months or years later that you are not only more
depressed but sick as well. These ideas are easy to apply
and yield quick results. Ninety percent of the time, they
work right away.
As soon as you begin,
within days you will know if this is going to work for you.
If it doesn't work within a few weeks then your condition is
not just the result of nutritional deficiency. If you have brain
damage from a concussion or accident, if your liver is overly
toxic, if you are taking a lot of medications or if you are
diabetic it may take more time to experience the full benefits.
When this is the case other kinds of support are required as
well. Later in this book we will explore many of these other
healing options.
In my experience while teaching this new program during
the last year, it works immediately for over 90% of the people
who try it! I know it sounds too good to be true;
I know some of you may be thinking, it can't be that easy.
But it is. I have seen it with my own eyes and continue to
hear about it everyday. Each day while most people are bombarded
with discouraging messages and statistics from the media,
I am bombarded with hundreds of messages of immediate and
positive transformation and healing. That is why I sound so
optimistic.
The program is so
easy to apply that almost everyone I meet that tries it benefits
immediately. Thousands of people have already begun applying
this information and are enjoying better health, increased
happiness and lasting romance. Many, with the supervision
of their doctors have gradually gone off their psychoactive
medications like Prozac. Thousands who are overweight have
lost and kept off their extra weight in just a few weeks.
Loving couples who over the years had lost some of the initial
passion are now experiencing a renewed and lasting romantic
glow. Everyday I hear the stories of increased health, energy,
successful weight management and a better sleep at night.
In a week you will
begin to see dramatic results. Each day I am amazed by how
quickly these simple changes create positive benefits. I know
some of you may be thinking how could it be so simple? Even
as I write these words, I too wonder, how could this be?
How Could It Be This
Easy?
The answer to this
question is also simple. Having found this answer it becomes
clear why it was not found before. Never in history have we
had so much wisdom and information available to us and yet
never have we been so confused. In this sense, we are living
in a paradoxical time. Every year hundreds of books and thousands
of research studies are published with the latest information
to make our lives better. With this information, in some ways
our lives get better, but in other ways they get worse.
All of this dramatic change
both for the better and for the worse has prepared the foundation
for the answers in this book to change your life. Yet, the changes
that have occurred in our society in the last thirty years are
more than a foundation; they are the whole house. Everything
you need is available in this house. The only problem is that
we don't have a key to get in. Without a key, we sleep outside
in the yard.
All you will find in this book is the key to enter that house.
The actual house has already been built and is already available
to you. The foundation is in place, all the research has already
been done and all the expertise and support is available.
Still with all that support, without the key to using it correctly
it is of little value.
Certainly regular
check ups with your doctor and regular exercise will make
you healthy but without the information in this book people
still get sicker as they get older!
Certainly finding
a good job and making lots of money will make you happy but
without the information in this book for most people work
opportunities just make you tired, anxious, stressed or overwhelmed.
Certainly finding the
love of your life and taking classes or reading helpful books
on improving communication skills will help you find lasting
romance but for most people without the information in this
book the romance will fade.
Getting dramatic results
is so easy because there is already so much support available.
It is just not being fully utilized. New medical breakthroughs
and discoveries are published every week, stores specializing
in healthy foods and supplements are popping up everywhere,
thousands of new self help books are published every year,
gyms and yoga studios are available in every community and
new and old spiritual institutions are experiencing a resurgence
in community participation. What then, is this magic key to
make use of all this potential?
The Magic Key
What is this magic
key? It is waiting for you at your local health food store
and grocery. That's right, it is what you eat that determines
your health, happiness and love life. When you put all the
pieces of the puzzle together what is missing for everyone
is just one piece. That piece is nutrition and exercise.
The
magic key to health, happiness and romance is waiting for
you in your local
health products store and/or grocery store.
Once I discovered
the symptoms of nutritional deficiency and neuro imbalance
I realized that every person I have ever met, counseled, or
read about fits the description. In my career, I have personally
met, counseled, or talked with in my seminars over one million
people. So when I say everyone can benefit from this message,
I literally mean every one and I am not making a wild claim.
I can not however claim that everyone will get the same benefits
because they don't.
Having learned to recognize
the behavior symptoms of nutritional deficiency I can assure
that everyone I have ever met or worked with fits the description.
In addition to nutritional
deficiency some people suffer from brain damage, birth defects
or the results of extreme abuse to the body either from drug
abuse, the chronic symptoms of nutritional deficiency or the
side effects of modern medicine. These conditions may inhibit
the immediate benefits.
Even with these ten percent, by applying the Mars
and Venus Diet and Exercise Solution, different
degrees of healing are still possible when coupled with others
forms of healing. Depending on a person's preference and condition
there are so many effective healing modalities. More and more
modern doctors and therapists are recognizing and even recommending
complimentary forms of healing with chiropractors, naturopathic
doctors and nutritionists, homeopathy, traditional Chinese
medicine, intravenous ozone therapy (legal in Germany but
not yet in the US), intravenous amino acid supplementation,
vitamin supplements, acupuncture, herbs, aromatherapy, energy
healing, spiritual healing, chi kung, tai chi, yoga, meditation,
positive visualization and journaling.
With so many recourses
now available, by adding the Mars and Venus Solution there
is new hope even for those with more serious problems who
don't get results right away. Each of the above healing treatments
is dramatically enriched when patients supplement their healing
program with the Mars and Venus Diet and Exercise
Solution.
As you can probably
tell, I am very happy to share this information with you because
I know you too will benefit in a variety of ways. Exploring
these five different fields of expertise has been an exciting
journey for me and I know it will be just as exciting for
you.
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