Step 1: Recognize and Eliminate the Cause

What causes your major hormones (insulin, adrenalin and cortisol) to get thrown out of balance? Really what’s happening, at least initially, is these hormones are being chronically over-stimulated. A very bad thing to do! There’s a tight range of proper function and a give-and-take relationship between Insulin on one side, and adrenalin and cortisol on the other. If you do things that pump these hormones into your system in excess, you are committing slow, metabolic suicide! And these “things” turn out to be completely in your control. You have to fix it or you’re in for a lot of suffering.

The true, underlying cause of the symptoms that plague women is what we call “TOTAL LOAD.” Total Load is an equation. It explains why you develop symptoms, why you get one set of symptoms while another woman’s is completely different. Why some symptoms are mild and some severe. Total Load is a personal equation unique to every woman.

The biggest factors that make up this total load are devastating forms of stress called “dominant burdens.” You have to fix these dominant burdens or you can’t progress and you can’t heal! A dominant burden is a damaging and degenerative form of stress that your body cannot compensate for. This type of stress is the modern day killer! There are two dominant burdens that cause the majority of the metabolic and hormonal breakdowns that lead to so many symptoms and so much misery. They are:

• The insane over-consumption of refined carbohydrates and refined fats and oils. (bad carbohydrates and bad fats)
• Chronic abuse of your stress response. (bad emotions)

These two dominant burdens relentlessly punish your major hormones sending your metabolism, hormonal system and those feel good chemicals in your brain into chaos. What follows is a downward spiral of symptoms, fatigue and stubborn weight gain.

Although these dominant burdens are the most devastating forms of stress that contribute to your total load, it’s not the only factor. Let me give you some examples of the different kinds of stress that make up your “total load” and you can do a little self assessment. This will help you to realize the areas in your life that contribute the most to your personal total load.

Mental/Emotional Stress

This form of stress has the most to do with our own perceptions. Things like job stress, relationship stress, financial stress and the many stressful events of modern life contribute to emotions like worry, guilt, apprehension, and anxiety. Did you know that humans are the only living creatures that can stress themselves into a full blown panic without ever having a stressful event? We can just think ourselves right into ulcers! It’s the “emotional investment” you give that determines how damaging the stress is!

Nutritional Stress

This includes eating incorrectly, eating too much, eating too little, skipping meals, eating too late at night, “dieting,” and the 150 to 170 pounds of “sweet suicide” you may be eating every year (the worst stress of all).

Chemical Stress

Alcohol, cigarettes, recreational drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, preservatives and chemicals in food and drink, chemicals from indoor and outdoor pollution are all examples of chemical stress. Your major hormones, especially adrenalin and cortisol, really take a beating while trying to protect your body from the effects of these chemical stressors.

Physical/Sleep Stress

Not moving enough, and its opposite over-exercising, are both physical forms of stress. Lack of restful, quality sleep is a tremendous physical and mental stress. Good health, both mentally and physically, requires an optimal amount of resistance and cardiovascular exercise counter balanced with adequate sleep.

Unresolved Stress

This type of stress is different from mental/emotional stress. Unresolved stress is like a constant weight around your neck and consequently you never really get a break. It’s the accumulated events of the past that you haven’t released. Things like forgiving yourself, forgiving others, especially your parents, not moving on after a traumatic experience, letting go of guilt, resolving self–hatred, and coming to terms with the death of a loved one are all examples of unresolved stress.

Hormonal Stress

This is the worst form of stress when it comes to how you feel. Nothing depletes your energy and ruins your peace of mind, self confidence, and joy for life like hormonal stress. This form of stress is not as much a cause as it is an effect. In other words, hormonal stress is the result of all the other forms of stress putting unrealistic demands on both your major and minor hormones.

The 90 Day Plan is designed to reverse and reduce your personal total load and change the equation so the momentum shifts from health destructive to health restorative.

Step 2: Utilize A Precise System of Natural Medicine

Nothing will rejuvenate your energy faster, boost your moods, and kick your metabolism into fat burning mode like our “Guaranteed Response” system of supplementation. The foundation of the system is our exclusive Core Program Supplements called FactorUp am/pm am/pm and Essential Factors.

Our Core Program Supplements work when all else fails and here’s why.

If you heard that water was an excellent to put out a fire would you agree?
Well of course, no argument right?

What if your house was on fire and someone showed up with a squirt gun?
Now it’s a different story!

When your metabolism is suffering, major hormones are thrown off kilter and your minor hormones are taking a beating it’s like a house on fire. For you individually, it could be a small fire or a big one but the sooner you get it stopped the faster you rebuild and “heal” the damage. Our Core Program Supplements are purposely designed to get optimal amounts of “water on that metabolic fire” and from every different angle. There’s nothing else in the world as fast and effective as our Core Program Supplements.

It’s not possible to correct imbalances in major hormones, revive your metabolism, promote fat burning, reverse deficiencies, and rejuvenate your energy levels with products equivalent to “squirt guns!”

You can’t do it with a single product no matter how convincing the story may be!

Your metabolism is a serious matter! Years of abuse from poor eating, bad carbohydrates, bad fats and unrelenting stress have pushed your body past its threshold to cope. The imbalance of your major hormones has a stranglehold on your energy levels, fat burning and any hope for lasting mental and emotional stability. Our Core Program Supplements work because we focus on the cause!!

When you take the Core Program Supplements in concert with our “90 Day Plan” the results will feel like a miracle to you! Together this creates a “healing momentum” that has to be experienced to be believed! Let’s take a more detailed look at the Core Supplements and see how it works.

FactorUp am/pm

This is our main product that everything else is built around.

FactorUp am/pm is the “miracle worker.” I believe every woman should take it and this is why. FactorUp am/pm is five unique products in one. Each aspect of the product is focused on your “top priority” needs. You simply take one packet in the morning and one in the evening. What you get in return is going to change your life!

FactorUp am/pm is designed to help:

• Balance Insulin, reduce Insulin resistance, and support what is known as “glycemic control” (regulation of blood sugars).
• Calm an over-reactive stress response and help regulate the appropriate release of Adrenalin and Cortisol.
• Balance your “brain chemistry” to boost your moods, reduce cravings, and calm anxieties.
• Restore your physical and mental energy, and overcome unnatural states of fatigue.
• Deliver the right nutrients at the right times (vitamins, minerals and standardized extracts appropriate for daytime and nighttime patterns).

In today’s world every woman needs this kind of metabolic, physical and mental support. This is truly what anti-aging, longevity and prevention is all about!

Think about what FactorUp am/pm is doing for you. What’s the combined effect, and the end result?

Tell us why you’d recommend FactorUp am/pm to a friend, a mother, a sister, a daughter, a co-worker, or any woman that is struggling with weight or a laundry list of uncomfortable symptoms.

If you say: To balance their major hormones and REDUCE THEIR “TOTAL LOAD” then you’ve hit the nail on the head!

We’re proud of you! Now you are understanding the journey back to health, happiness and peace of mind. You’re able to offer a solution and a focus that simply hasn’t existed for women, until now!

EssentialFactors

I’m going to drop a bomb here.
Listen to this!

The biggest mistake ever made regarding diet and nutrition was the low fat, high carbohydrate disaster! Millions of women went head first into avoiding fat at all cost and filled up on bread, pasta and other bad carbohydrates! Here’s the sad truth. Obesity rates have skyrocketed and in my personal opinion so has inflammation. (Experts believe inflammation is the main starting point for most diseases).

There is another kind of hormone that I haven’t talked about yet. It is made in your cells from a certain type of “good fat.” These fast acting hormones have an extremely powerful effect on virtually every system in the body. You may not have heard a lot about them but get them back in balance and you will love them like a trusted friend. They are called Eicosanoids.

Three things cause your body’s systems to spin out of control:

• Bad fats
• Bad carbohydrates
• Imbalance in major hormones

You can fix the “bad fat” AND “bad carbohydrate” problem the Resurrection Eating Plan which you will learn all about in Step 3.

Our product Essential Factors supplies the “good fats.” This formula is a premium blend of “essential fatty acids” obtained from the highest quality sources of fish oil, flax oil and borage oil.

Essential Factors is absolutely crucial for something called “silent inflammation.” Pain is “loud inflammation.” Silent inflammation is what you don’t feel, but is at the root of almost every disease known. It’s a partner to major and minor hormone imbalance, and an underlying cause of the physical and mental/emotional symptoms we have talked so much about.

FactorUp am/pm and Essential Factors work quickly to revive your metabolism, activate fat burning, improve mood, reduce cravings, help balance major hormones, minor hormones, eicosanoid hormones, and rejuvenate your response and resistance to stress.

Now you feel great, look great and your quality of life is restored!

In addition to the Core Program Supplements our system includes our Rapid Response Formulas. These products are specific to your individual needs.

There are three additional areas that we’ve identified where women need extra help.

• Weight loss
• Female hormones
• Sleep

SlimActin

One of the most common and frustrating things that happen to women of all ages is weight gain. When your major hormones start losing control of your metabolism there is a certain type of weight gain that occurs. And it’s ruthless, stubborn and seems to happen overnight. The likelihood of you ever losing that weight without our Re-Balance system and a support formula like SlimActin is, pardon the pun, slim to none!

SlimActin is a clinically proven breakthrough for healthy and effective weight loss. Millions of people are scammed everyday by products that cause you to shed water and eat up your muscle. The number on the scale looks better, temporarily, but it quickly turns into a painful illusion.

SlimActin contains the scientifically proven formula LeanGard. LeanGard’s clinically researched blend of ingredients promotes fat loss while preserving your lean body mass (muscle). Nothing works better to get that stubborn, agonizing weight around your hips, thighs, stomach and backside to vanish for good.

SlimActin is the perfect compliment to the Core Program Supplements and our 90 Day Plan to lose fat and help reshape your body into what you want it to be!

ProEsta

One of the most important things we can do is help you balance your estrogen and progesterone levels. ProEsta contains clinically proven and time tested ingredients that work, as all our supplements do, in perfect harmony with our 90 Day Plan-and Core Program Supplements.

ProEsta works in a very special way. It supplies “phyto-estrogens” which are safe, effective and mild acting “estrogen like” plant compounds. They have the amazing ability to help with excessive or deficient estrogen levels. They are balancing compounds and in today’s world of “environmental estrogen pollution” ProEsta, in our view, is an absolute must for every adult woman. ProEsta also contains safe yet effective ingredients that help balance your progesterone levels.

SomniSure

One of the most common problems affecting women, especially when major hormones are out of whack, is poor quality sleep. You can do everything right but if you don’t rejuvenate yourself with quality sleep you can never heal properly.

SomniSure contains a very effective and clinically proven ingredient called Cyracos. This natural extract works as a powerful calming agent and helps with sleep disturbances, getting to sleep and staying asleep.

The beauty of SomniSure is that it works without causing drowsiness or the sedated feeling so common with pharmaceutical sleep aids. SomniSure, like all our products, works in a harmonious and synergistic way with our Core Program Supplements to promote weight loss, hormone balance and sound, restful sleep.

Now let’s have a heart-to-heart talk.

I would love to be able to create one product, have you take a single tablet a day and reverse years of accumulated damage to your health. But, IT’S NOT POSSIBLE! Squirt guns trying to put out house fires, remember?!

If the symptoms you’re experiencing put out a big neon sign they would say:

Please understand, we’re not trying to scare you.

But we both know that most people don’t think about “dominant burdens” and “total load.”

They don’t realize that destructive habits steal their health and quality of life in a ruthless, but silent way. Taking a derailed metabolism and putting it back on track requires supplements designed to handle such a critical responsibility.

When your personal “total load” becomes overwhelming, a powerful, negative momentum sets in. It saps your energy, aggravates your emotions, and eventually leads to every condition and disease imaginable. Reversing that momentum is the key to healing yourself. That’s what our Core Program Supplements and Rapid Response Formulas are designed to do!!

We could offer you a thirty dollar bottle of stimulants, a few unethical before and after pictures, and invent some compelling fairy tale. You’re bombarded with all that nonsense already! I hate to say it this way but aren’t you tired of getting ripped off and being the brunt of marketing schemes? Do me a favor. Please read the next statement and ask yourself whether you think it’s true for you, or not.

I need a plan. What I’m doing now is not working and I have to accept the responsibility to change that. I want to help myself but I have to get a grip on my life and take a stand for my health and my future. I need to give a determined effort towards a focused goal with a clear time frame.

No matter what, any successful end result starts with the desire, and the acceptance of personal responsibility.

One last thought before we move on to our third and final step in our 90 Day Plan. Its human nature to weigh the value of what we are offering with the financial and lifestyle commitments you have to make.

Let’s be perfectly honest with one another. If you could have the optimal health you desire you’d probably pay a kings ransom for it! If you could buy it up front, you’d find a way!

Life doesn’t hand out free lunches. It’s a barter system! You give a focused effort, stay on track and learn from experience and life rewards you with the object of your desire!

Step 3: Rebuild and Refuel

You’ll have an astonishing new level of appreciation for your major hormones and the power of food by the time I’m done with this section. We have talked about the metabolic poisons collectively called “bad carbohydrates” and “bad fats”. That’s what not to eat.

So, you ask, what should I eat? Let’s talk about the power of life sustaining food.

If you want to walk this earth with the optimal amount of energy, stamina, and vitality then please… pay attention to what I’m about to tell you!

If you want an insurance policy against degenerative diseases that kill the majority of people…

If you want a body that you can be proud of, and a mind that generates positive, uplifting, loving & happy thoughts…

If you are ready to set an example for yourself and treat your mind and body with the respect and reverence it deserves…

Then you must embrace a method of eating that’s in harmony with the absolute requirements that every human being needs for optimal health.

It’s not a request on my part we’re talking about the law of cause and effect!

Before you freak out, stop for a second.

If your mind is rebelling and you’re having visions of deprivation, drudgery and yet another tasteless, extreme “diet” then boy, do I have some great news for you.

First, deprivation and “diets” never work.
Second, eating right is an act of self love and self respect!

It’s not just food for the body. You’re taking a stand for yourself, its food for the soul!

Once you truly understand the awesome power of life-sustaining whole food you hold the key to a long, healthy life! In order to fully appreciate the role that food plays in every aspect of your health you have to know more about the role that insulin, adrenalin and cortisol have in your body.

Insulin, Adrenaline & Cortisol

Insulin is a counter balance to adrenalin and cortisol.

Insulin controls one half of the most important functions in your body - rebuilding cells, muscles and bones, and building other molecules like brain chemicals, hormones and enzymes, along with supplying energy in the form of fats and glycogen (stored sugar).

Adenalin and cortisol work together and control the other half. They allow your body to use the molecules and energy so you can live your life. These two hormones are responsible for everything from thinking, digestion and the beating of your heart to signaling old cells to make room for new ones.

It’s like a metabolic bank account:
Insulin puts the money in and adrenalin and cortisol let you take the money out.

What could possibly be more important than the role these major hormones play in your body – i.e. optimally functioning cells, muscles and bones, brain chemicals, hormones and enzymes.

You may also recognize adrenalin and cortisol as the “stress” hormones. Let me give you an example of how powerful these major hormones are. You have heard the story of the mother who sees her child get caught underneath a car and somehow finds the strength to lift the car up and free her baby. Insulin made it possible for her cells to have the available resources and adrenalin and cortisol exploded into her system within seconds and created massive amounts of energy allowing the mother to perform an otherwise impossible feat of strength.

Only the major hormones could make that happen.

That should help you understand the incredible power of these hormones. Just a slight imbalance can throw your health into a tailspin.

Take another look at what the major hormones are responsible for:

• Supplying the body with life sustaining building materials and sources of energy (insulin).
• Using these life sustaining compounds to produce energy to think, breath, move, digest and keep our hearts beating (adrenlin, cortisol).

Hmm… Life sustaining building materials?!

Insulin delivers them and adrenalin and cortisol allows us to use them.

So your skin, nerves, blood, heart, brain, and eyeballs are all made from these life sustaining compounds! So are enzymes, minor hormones, neurotransmitters, and all the powerful bio-chemicals that make you feel good! These life sustaining building materials also make your bones, muscles, tendons, cartilage, liver, kidneys, stomach and spleen! Even the major hormones themselves have to be made from something? What is it?

I have a really important question to ask?

Wouldn’t you say that the source of these life sustaining building materials and your energy supply is critically important above all else?

All of it, every last molecule in your body, is made from only one source.

YOUR FOOD SUPPLY!

That’s right! What you eat not only determines what you’re made of but ultimately determines how long and how well every cell in your body functions!! In other words, you can’t treat yourself like a garbage dump and expect to be lean, healthy and bursting with energy. Our hospitals and graveyards are full of people who gambled and lost that bet!

Here’s my point, if you want results your food supply is a top priority.

When you get your food right then you trigger a cascade of benefits that goes something like this:

• Eating correctly provides life sustaining compounds
• Major hormones can function properly and get into balance
• Metabolism heals
• Cells repair, tissues regenerate, organs revitalize and systems function
• Bio-chemicals, enzymes, minor hormones, neurotransmitters regulate
• Physical and mental energy is restored
• Physical symptoms diminish and disappear
• Mental symptoms reverse from depressed states to positive and happy states
• High degree of protection from future conditions and diseases

Let’s compare this with conventional thinking. When the priorities are misunderstood or overlooked it goes something like this:

• Mainstream doctors start with HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) and/or anti-depression medication
• Food supply remains inadequate to meet basic metabolic needs
• Major hormones remain imbalanced and will become progressively more imbalanced
• Metabolic healing cannot take place and continues to get worse
• Some physical and mental symptoms can be temporarily improved
• Some will stay the same
• Some will get worse
• More drugs are prescribed
• HRT, poor diet, bad carbohydrates and bad fats, imbalance in major hormones and excessive “total load” all contribute to high risk of developing a future condition or disease.
• You sacrifice possible relief in some symptoms for a guarantee of continued poor health

This scenario is going to be pretty much the same with the diet and supplement industries and the endless flow of nonsense coming from the media. They will always fall short because they start with the wrong priorities, downplay what’s most important, and twist your thinking into emotionally driven impulses.

You want results? You need the right plan!

Remember... this is not a diet, it is a plan to eat your next 270 to 450 meals over 90 days correctly... following our simple to follow guidelines... you will never “be on a diet” again!

Ongoing Support

This is our way to show you that we care. Even though we may not know you, we can still love and support you.

You have just been exposed to a lot of ideas and information. Some of it brand new, some controversial, some may have really struck a chord with you. One thing for sure, you are going to have questions! We feel that answering your questions, providing support, and helping you become a part of something tangible towards your health is the most important thing we do.

Our website is a big part of your ongoing support. On the website we have three ways to communicate with you that will answer most of your questions.

• Reports (like this one)
  The reason we use this report format is because they are highly condensed and the content is focused. At one point, not to long ago, I had over 6000 books on health and nutrition. After interviewing over 1200 authorities in my radio career I learned the value of condensed information.
• F.A.Q’s (Frequently Asked Questions)
  We already have a catalog of questions that are most often on your mind. These will be constantly updated and new questions will be added as time goes on.
• Videos
  Nothing gets the point across on a website better than video. It’s a whole different level of interaction and helps you bond better with the information and the person giving it. Each written report is accompanied by a video so you can have both a written and “audio/visual” perspective of the information.

Email will be a preferred form of communication. Please make sure we have your email address. You can submit it on the website. Your email is secure and will never be shared.

We’ll also have plenty of offline support as well. First, we are big believers in live events. There’s nothing like meeting people face to face. Our event schedule will be posted on the website. Training and education is also extremely important to us. One of the ways people learn about Life Factor Research is through trained coaches who complete our mentoring program. We have both online and live event trainings. We also conduct tele-seminars and tele-conferences on a regular basis.

In Summary

It takes less effort to become extraordinary, to experience exquisite health and to love and appreciate yourself beyond your wildest imagination than it does to languish in mediocrity or make feeble attempts at a better life!

Never make the mistake of thinking change is difficult! Waking up every morning to a life that needs change is difficult. What you’re living is much harder than what you can become!

Your success doesn’t depend on whether this information is right, accurate or reliable. It is! Believe it and embrace it.

What will determine your success is whether or not you can find it within yourself to consistently act on your own behalf. In other words, the program will work for you provided you work the program.

Knowing the right things to do is easy. Getting yourself to consistently do them is what transforms your life. That’s how you love yourself, improve your character, and leave a legacy.

You have our love and support every step of the way.

Allies in Health,

Don Bodenbach & The Life Factor Research Team