Klamath Blue-Green Algae
An Interview With Gabriel Cousens, M.D. on The
Benefits of E3Live
An Interview With Gabriel Cousens, M.D. on The
Benefits of E3Live
Dr. Gabriel Cousens is one of the world's foremost authorities on
living food nutrition, holistic lifestyle and complementary medicine.
He is Founder/director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in
Patagonia, Arizona. He received his M.D. degree from Columbia
Medical School in 1969 and completed his psychiatry residency in
1973. He was the Chief Mental Health Consultant for the Sonoma
County Operation Head Start and a consultant for the California State
Department of Mental Health.
Dr. Cousens is a holistic medical doctor, a psychiatrist and family
therapist, and a licensed homeopathic physician in the state of
Arizona. He uses the modalities of live-food nutrition, naturopathy,
Ayurveda, homeopathy and acupuncture, blended with spiritual
awareness, in the healing of body, mind and spirit. A best-selling
author of Conscious Eating, Depression-Free for Life, Spiritual
Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet as well as several other books.
Eliot Jay Rosen - Before we talk about E3Live, please tell us a little
about this beautiful sanctuary in southern Arizona?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - The purpose of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation
Center is to support the experience of complete rejuvenation, to offer
people a "menu of awakened living," to become fully liberated from
all limitations so that they can live their lives fully and experience
their birthright of the sacred joy of living.
We focus on helping people absorb more of the vital forces of nature
through living food, sunlight, fresh air, clean water, meditation, yoga
and other practices. We encourage people, whatever their orientation,
to go inside and get in touch with the part of their eternal self, so
they can regenerate from that point of enhanced awareness. That's
our function and that's our focus here.
Eliot Jay Rosen - You mentioned the term, "living foods." Could you
give a brief definition of what living foods are?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Living foods are foods that have not been
altered by any particular process that negatively changes its
biochemical structure and energetic charge in any way. Living foods
are not subjected to heat. They are uncooked and nothing essential
is removed from the food by way of processing. Living foods are truly
whole foods in that they still have their life-force intact. The best
living foods are organically grown because the full complement of
nutrients in the soil are essential to our health. As our health
depends to a great degree on the quality of the foods we eat, eating
as much living foods as feels right to the body, is the direction we
want to go.
Eliot Jay Rosen - As far as I know, you've been eating and
recommending Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (AFA), the cyanophyta
(nutritional algae) that grows in Klamath Lake, longer than any other
medical doctor in the world, almost 26 years, which in my book,
makes you an expert.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - That's true. However, I want to make clear
from the very outset that throughout that time, my commitment has
been, and still is, only to the highest quality AFA and not to any
company. I have no affiliation or financial interest in the company
that is behind E3Live. In this way, I can have the cleanest, most
scientific approach. I can switch to better products and not
compromise my integrity when it comes to recommending what is
best for my clients. I've shared AFA with thousands of my clients
throughout the years. The reason I'm speaking with you today is
because I've experienced that E3Live is a qualitative leap compared
to the other AFA coming out of Klamath Lake.
Eliot Jay Rosen - In the most general way, why is nutrition so
important to our health?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Nutrition is so vital to health because eating is
our main way of getting energy, besides breathing and increasing our
spiritual connection which fills us with life-force. When we put
nutrients in our body, we are taking in a gift from God. We're taking
in a gift from the living planet. The sad thing is that most of the
members of our society don't eat naturally, and we have a
consequent degeneration physically, mentally, morally, AND
spiritually.
People are mistaken if they think that you can pop a vitamin or eat
junk food and that's enough to keep healthy AND ALIVE. When you
take natural, live, organic, whole foods into the body, foods that do
not have pesticides and herbicides, it makes a huge, huge difference
in the quality of life, in the quality of energy, in the quality of health.
Eating a poor diet is like taking a car and putting diluted or impure
gasoline into it and thinking that the car is going run the same as if
you put in premium grade. And when the car breaks down because it's
not getting the right fuel, some people, even traditional medical
doctors, still don't get the connection.
Superior nutrition specifically enhances our ability to excel as human
beings physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Poor nutrition
contributes to what I call a "biologically altered brain" in which we
function at an inferior level. The result is increased drug addiction,
alcoholism, increased hyperactivity, increased attention deficit
disorders, and depression.
Do you know that there are 40 million people in the U.S. who are
clinically depressed? The above conditions are all as a result of the
biologically altered brain which comes as result of poor nutrition and
which is amplified by poor genetics. E3Live is specific for our nervous
system, brain function and the quality of our consciousness. E3Live is
specific food for drug addiction, alcoholism, increased hyperactivity,
increased attention deficit disorders, and depression. More than any
other food, it enables us to make a paradigm shift and enjoy a sense
of well-being. There's a quality of joy that's really subtle that many
people experience with E3Live.
Eliot Jay Rosen - Perhaps when some people hear the words "algae"
and "food" in the same sentence, it may be a new concept for them
to think that certain cyanophyta (algae), such as AFA are edible.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Not only are certain algae edible, but they are
truly superfoods. Algae has been eaten by indigenous people for
thousands of years. I don't know if they are still working on the
project, but the U.S. space program, NASA, was at one time
developing food growing systems in space that used algae as a
staple protein source. Today more than ever, algae is thought of as a
wholesome food in wider and wider circles. It's not thought to be so
unusual anymore.
Eliot Jay Rosen - How does E3Live compare to store bought vitamins
and minerals?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - I don't see E3Live as a collection of vitamins
and minerals. In nature, there are certain energies that were given to
us by God to use for our human development. For instance, the herb
milk thistle has an affinity to the liver. Siberian ginseng is a specific
for the adrenals, etc.
In the same way, E3Live has a unique energy that has an affinity to
improving brain function. We now have clinical research showing AFA
balances EEG readings and improves central nervous system
functioning. So I don't like to equate AFA as just being a good source
of certain vitamins and minerals. Sure, it has the most reliable and
plentiful amounts of B-12 than any other non-animal food I know, but
this in itself is just an added bonus to the gift that AFA really is in
the grand scheme of God's creation.
But I think this algae is so much more than that. To compare it to
man-made supplements is to minimize the value of AFA. And now
that AFA is available in its liquid, live form, this for me is really the
exciting part.
Eliot Jay Rosen - You were one of the first physicians to recommend
E3Live frozen liquid even though you were already using the
powdered version of the same species of AFA?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - That's correct. I'd been eating AFA from
Klamath Lake since 1982. I happened to be at a Live Food Expo in
San Francisco where I met the developers of E3Live. My first
experience with E3Live was quite dramatic and wonderful. I felt the
difference immediately. I felt such a paradigm shift compared to the
other AFA I'd been using, that I am now recommending E3Live to my
clients, and the response has been wonderful for so many different
health concerns.
Eliot Jay Rosen - Will people still benefit from using E3Live even
though they may not want to improve their diet, even if they know
there is a better diet?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Yes, absolutely. E3Live is going to help you
whether or not you improve your diet. Obviously, to get the most
positive changes, you,ll want to improve your diet and lifestyle. Yet
there are many people who just want something to make them feel
better. That's OK too. And yes, these people will also benefit. I
wouldn't want people to think that to take E3Live one also has to
adopt an unfamiliar lifestyle or have to do things that are not
comfortable for them. Everybody has a choice as to what they want to
do, or not do. However, what seems to happen is that when you
begin using E3Live, you begin to feel a greater sense of well-being,
then you naturally start to get interested in making improvements
simply because you feel better.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - I've had excellent results using the algae with
children who've been autistic. One of the main characteristics of
autism is the absence of verbal talking. These children only make
grunting and other such noises. I remember one child case that began
to talk in only one month after beginning using the AFA.
Unfortunately, if you can believe this, the mother really didn't want
the child to talk. She started complaining the child was talking too
much, and made some excuse to stop giving the AFA to the child,
which is very sad when you think about it.
Eliot Jay Rosen - As a psychiatrist, do you sometimes use more
traditional treatments for depression such as Prozac?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - I've had people who've been depressed for
years and years, and literally, within a few days after receiving AFA,
their depression lifts. This is because the AFA gets to the root of
helping heal the addictive brain chemistry which is behind a lot of
depression. I discuss this at length in my new book, Depression Free
For Life.
People do not have a Prozac deficiency. This approach doesn't get to
the root of the problem. My depression healing rate using natural
foods, including E3Live, nutritional supplements and basic lifestyle
changes, without the necessity of using any pharmaceutical drugs,
Prozac or anything like that, is over 90%. No drug can compete with
that, period.
Eliot Jay Rosen - What about E3Live and meditation? It would seem
to me if E3Live is good for mental clarity it might actually help people
improve their focus in meditation.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - In my first book, Spiritual Nutrition and the
Rainbow Diet, I was very focused on what is the best diet for
meditators. I found that an uncooked live food diet is best, not that
one cannot make spiritual progress without it, just that the living
food diet is extremely helpful. Along with this I found that AFA was
specific for meditation. And now, with the new liquid form of AFA -
"E3Live" its positive effect is even more pronounced. So yes, I find
that E3Live is a specific food for enhancing one's ability to focus in
meditation. E3Live helps keeps the mind clear, light and joyful.
Eliot Jay Rosen - Could you compare the energetic and nutritional
differences between E3 AFA and say, Spirulina, or Chlorella.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - For those who know about nutritional edible
algae, there's a tendency to want to compare algae in a competitive
way. But this isn't the way I look at it. Each of these algae have their
proper roles. Chlorella is very specific for getting mercury out of the
system. Spirulina is very good for hepatitis. Although Chlorella or
Spirulina may help mental functioning a little bit, it's nowhere near
the effect that AFA has on mental functioning. So Spirulina works
more on the physical body, and E3Live's real gift to humanity is that
it works more on the mental, emotional and spiritual levels, yet, still
has tremendous effects physically, as I've been mentioning. But it's
the mental functioning where people really feel the difference.
Eliot Jay Rosen - What about E3Live and the immune system?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - A recent study showed that AFA activates up
to 40% more of the immune system's beneficial natural killer cells.
Natural killer cells hunt out viruses and bacteria, even seeking them
out deep in the body's tissues. One of the nice things about AFA is
something I've intuitively known since 1982; it significantly enhances
the immune system. If I feel any kind of viral imbalance coming on, I
take E3Live and it always takes it away.
I also use E3Live for my clients, not only to get rid of symptoms of
disease, but as a preventative measure. I've actually known of two or
three cases where people took the AFA and healed their cancer. This
is not to say that AFA is the primary immune stimulant to use above
any other to fight cancer, but that this algae has some anti-cancer
qualities. Scientists already know that AFA has some anti-HIV
effects, but we need to do a lot more research in these areas.
Eliot Jay Rosen - Have you had any clients that have responded to
using E3Live for weight loss and appetite control?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Yes, I have, but let me say that in my practice,
I don't focus on these issues in particular. What I find is that when I
help people improve their nutritional intake, especially in the
direction of a living food diet, they naturally gravitate back to their
natural, normal and healthiest weight. Appetite control becomes
much less of an issue with most people because when people's
bodies and brains are well-nourished, when they self-regulate and
normalize, they no longer feel depressed and so they don't need to
eat compulsively as a result of depression. As E3Live balances blood
sugar levels, people are not eating to compensate for low blood sugar.
Eliot Jay Rosen -Have you used E3Live successfully with alcohol &
drug problems?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Yes. E3Live is an essential part of my
treatment program. Almost everyone I see, I put on E3Live because it
helps with the underlying depression and helps heal the biologically
altered, addictive brain aspects behind these destructive behaviors. I
believe E3 Live is God's gift for people with a biologically altered
brain because of poor diet and poor genetics. These people suffer a
lot in this world. One way they cope with the suffering is alcoholism
and drugs. There are obviously better, less destructive ways to cope.
In alcoholism and drug addiction, we find subtle and not so subtle
changes in brain chemistry and brain waves. In many of these people,
the pleasure centers of their brains, the dopamine receptors, are not
working correctly. We find that by using E3Live along with other
dietary changes and specific amino acid supplementation, we can
normalize the electroencephalogram (EEG) readings and balance the
central nervous system at the root of the disorder.
For example, if someone's brain function is off, not dramatically in
the sense they are having epileptic seizures, but "sub-clinically" and
out of balance, their EEG isn't really quite right, and we can normalize
it with E3Live, proper nutrition and other supplements. E3Live helps
people eliminate the craving for alcohol and drugs in part because
blood sugar levels are being normalized and the brain is also
functioning better.
There's another hidden aspect in all this that very few people know
about. The hypothalamus is a vitally important gland of the endocrine
system. It is often not functioning properly in drug addiction and
alcoholism. It's very hard to heal the endocrine system, which is
almost always out of balance in drug and alcohol addicted individuals.
It turns out that E3Live is the only vegetarian source I know that
brings hypothalamic function back to normal.
So as you can see, I'm particularly excited about E3Live. It is clearly
the best of all the algae on the market right now for healing and
bringing the hypothalamus back into normal function.
Eliot Jay Rosen - Because E3Live is perishable, it has to be frozen. Is
there a difference between freezing vegetables and fruits and
freezing AFA in terms of its maintaining its nutritional and energetic
properties?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - This species of cyanophyta is genetically
prepared for extreme alterations in temperature. In winter, parts of
Klamath Lake freeze over, including the live AFA growing in the
water. But when the weather warms up, the AFA comes out of its
frozen dormancy phase and resumes its active growth cycle. Its
genetic structure protects it from the effects of the cold, which is
unlike fruits and vegetables, which are destroyed in frost. This is
because AFA is high in lipids and Highly Un-saturated Fatty Acids
(HUFA), which protect it from crystallizing in low temperature
conditions. Bee pollen works the same way, you can freeze it and you
don't damage the nutritional value. So the good news about this is
that the AFA is significantly protected against the effects of freezing.
Eliot Jay Rosen - The term "adaptogen," usually refers to an herb
which has many different ways of working in the body. Could we apply
this term to a food such as E3Live as it's been reported to be
effective for many different health conditions?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Yes, I think it is very appropriate to use the
term "adaptogen" in connection with E3Live. It's both a physical
adaptogen as well as a mental adaptogen. In my own life, sometimes
I have to speak for an entire day at conferences. I take E3Live as sort
of a mental adaptogen for the stress of putting out so much energy.
AFA is also a physical adaptogen in that it increases physical energy.
There are world-class athletes who eat E3Live because they feel it
gives them a "competitive edge."
Eliot Jay Rosen - Dr. Cousens, you've been incredibly generous with
your time. Do you have any last words for us today?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens -
The essence of my message is this: it doesn't matter what our
chronological age is, we can be youthful at any age.
But more important than staying youthful is to understand that
one-sided physical health will never give us the lasting happiness and
love we seek. We want to draw into our lives anything and anyone
that nourishes supports and enhances our spiritual and overall
growth. Life is a great blessing. Health is a great blessing. True gifts
of God are a great blessing, and worthy of any effort or expense.
Resources:
- The Official E3 Live website
- E3 Live on the Raw Diet Health Store Website
living food nutrition, holistic lifestyle and complementary medicine.
He is Founder/director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in
Patagonia, Arizona. He received his M.D. degree from Columbia
Medical School in 1969 and completed his psychiatry residency in
1973. He was the Chief Mental Health Consultant for the Sonoma
County Operation Head Start and a consultant for the California State
Department of Mental Health.
Dr. Cousens is a holistic medical doctor, a psychiatrist and family
therapist, and a licensed homeopathic physician in the state of
Arizona. He uses the modalities of live-food nutrition, naturopathy,
Ayurveda, homeopathy and acupuncture, blended with spiritual
awareness, in the healing of body, mind and spirit. A best-selling
author of Conscious Eating, Depression-Free for Life, Spiritual
Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet as well as several other books.
Eliot Jay Rosen - Before we talk about E3Live, please tell us a little
about this beautiful sanctuary in southern Arizona?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - The purpose of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation
Center is to support the experience of complete rejuvenation, to offer
people a "menu of awakened living," to become fully liberated from
all limitations so that they can live their lives fully and experience
their birthright of the sacred joy of living.
We focus on helping people absorb more of the vital forces of nature
through living food, sunlight, fresh air, clean water, meditation, yoga
and other practices. We encourage people, whatever their orientation,
to go inside and get in touch with the part of their eternal self, so
they can regenerate from that point of enhanced awareness. That's
our function and that's our focus here.
Eliot Jay Rosen - You mentioned the term, "living foods." Could you
give a brief definition of what living foods are?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Living foods are foods that have not been
altered by any particular process that negatively changes its
biochemical structure and energetic charge in any way. Living foods
are not subjected to heat. They are uncooked and nothing essential
is removed from the food by way of processing. Living foods are truly
whole foods in that they still have their life-force intact. The best
living foods are organically grown because the full complement of
nutrients in the soil are essential to our health. As our health
depends to a great degree on the quality of the foods we eat, eating
as much living foods as feels right to the body, is the direction we
want to go.
Eliot Jay Rosen - As far as I know, you've been eating and
recommending Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (AFA), the cyanophyta
(nutritional algae) that grows in Klamath Lake, longer than any other
medical doctor in the world, almost 26 years, which in my book,
makes you an expert.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - That's true. However, I want to make clear
from the very outset that throughout that time, my commitment has
been, and still is, only to the highest quality AFA and not to any
company. I have no affiliation or financial interest in the company
that is behind E3Live. In this way, I can have the cleanest, most
scientific approach. I can switch to better products and not
compromise my integrity when it comes to recommending what is
best for my clients. I've shared AFA with thousands of my clients
throughout the years. The reason I'm speaking with you today is
because I've experienced that E3Live is a qualitative leap compared
to the other AFA coming out of Klamath Lake.
Eliot Jay Rosen - In the most general way, why is nutrition so
important to our health?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Nutrition is so vital to health because eating is
our main way of getting energy, besides breathing and increasing our
spiritual connection which fills us with life-force. When we put
nutrients in our body, we are taking in a gift from God. We're taking
in a gift from the living planet. The sad thing is that most of the
members of our society don't eat naturally, and we have a
consequent degeneration physically, mentally, morally, AND
spiritually.
People are mistaken if they think that you can pop a vitamin or eat
junk food and that's enough to keep healthy AND ALIVE. When you
take natural, live, organic, whole foods into the body, foods that do
not have pesticides and herbicides, it makes a huge, huge difference
in the quality of life, in the quality of energy, in the quality of health.
Eating a poor diet is like taking a car and putting diluted or impure
gasoline into it and thinking that the car is going run the same as if
you put in premium grade. And when the car breaks down because it's
not getting the right fuel, some people, even traditional medical
doctors, still don't get the connection.
Superior nutrition specifically enhances our ability to excel as human
beings physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Poor nutrition
contributes to what I call a "biologically altered brain" in which we
function at an inferior level. The result is increased drug addiction,
alcoholism, increased hyperactivity, increased attention deficit
disorders, and depression.
Do you know that there are 40 million people in the U.S. who are
clinically depressed? The above conditions are all as a result of the
biologically altered brain which comes as result of poor nutrition and
which is amplified by poor genetics. E3Live is specific for our nervous
system, brain function and the quality of our consciousness. E3Live is
specific food for drug addiction, alcoholism, increased hyperactivity,
increased attention deficit disorders, and depression. More than any
other food, it enables us to make a paradigm shift and enjoy a sense
of well-being. There's a quality of joy that's really subtle that many
people experience with E3Live.
Eliot Jay Rosen - Perhaps when some people hear the words "algae"
and "food" in the same sentence, it may be a new concept for them
to think that certain cyanophyta (algae), such as AFA are edible.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Not only are certain algae edible, but they are
truly superfoods. Algae has been eaten by indigenous people for
thousands of years. I don't know if they are still working on the
project, but the U.S. space program, NASA, was at one time
developing food growing systems in space that used algae as a
staple protein source. Today more than ever, algae is thought of as a
wholesome food in wider and wider circles. It's not thought to be so
unusual anymore.
Eliot Jay Rosen - How does E3Live compare to store bought vitamins
and minerals?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - I don't see E3Live as a collection of vitamins
and minerals. In nature, there are certain energies that were given to
us by God to use for our human development. For instance, the herb
milk thistle has an affinity to the liver. Siberian ginseng is a specific
for the adrenals, etc.
In the same way, E3Live has a unique energy that has an affinity to
improving brain function. We now have clinical research showing AFA
balances EEG readings and improves central nervous system
functioning. So I don't like to equate AFA as just being a good source
of certain vitamins and minerals. Sure, it has the most reliable and
plentiful amounts of B-12 than any other non-animal food I know, but
this in itself is just an added bonus to the gift that AFA really is in
the grand scheme of God's creation.
But I think this algae is so much more than that. To compare it to
man-made supplements is to minimize the value of AFA. And now
that AFA is available in its liquid, live form, this for me is really the
exciting part.
Eliot Jay Rosen - You were one of the first physicians to recommend
E3Live frozen liquid even though you were already using the
powdered version of the same species of AFA?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - That's correct. I'd been eating AFA from
Klamath Lake since 1982. I happened to be at a Live Food Expo in
San Francisco where I met the developers of E3Live. My first
experience with E3Live was quite dramatic and wonderful. I felt the
difference immediately. I felt such a paradigm shift compared to the
other AFA I'd been using, that I am now recommending E3Live to my
clients, and the response has been wonderful for so many different
health concerns.
Eliot Jay Rosen - Will people still benefit from using E3Live even
though they may not want to improve their diet, even if they know
there is a better diet?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Yes, absolutely. E3Live is going to help you
whether or not you improve your diet. Obviously, to get the most
positive changes, you,ll want to improve your diet and lifestyle. Yet
there are many people who just want something to make them feel
better. That's OK too. And yes, these people will also benefit. I
wouldn't want people to think that to take E3Live one also has to
adopt an unfamiliar lifestyle or have to do things that are not
comfortable for them. Everybody has a choice as to what they want to
do, or not do. However, what seems to happen is that when you
begin using E3Live, you begin to feel a greater sense of well-being,
then you naturally start to get interested in making improvements
simply because you feel better.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - I've had excellent results using the algae with
children who've been autistic. One of the main characteristics of
autism is the absence of verbal talking. These children only make
grunting and other such noises. I remember one child case that began
to talk in only one month after beginning using the AFA.
Unfortunately, if you can believe this, the mother really didn't want
the child to talk. She started complaining the child was talking too
much, and made some excuse to stop giving the AFA to the child,
which is very sad when you think about it.
Eliot Jay Rosen - As a psychiatrist, do you sometimes use more
traditional treatments for depression such as Prozac?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - I've had people who've been depressed for
years and years, and literally, within a few days after receiving AFA,
their depression lifts. This is because the AFA gets to the root of
helping heal the addictive brain chemistry which is behind a lot of
depression. I discuss this at length in my new book, Depression Free
For Life.
People do not have a Prozac deficiency. This approach doesn't get to
the root of the problem. My depression healing rate using natural
foods, including E3Live, nutritional supplements and basic lifestyle
changes, without the necessity of using any pharmaceutical drugs,
Prozac or anything like that, is over 90%. No drug can compete with
that, period.
Eliot Jay Rosen - What about E3Live and meditation? It would seem
to me if E3Live is good for mental clarity it might actually help people
improve their focus in meditation.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - In my first book, Spiritual Nutrition and the
Rainbow Diet, I was very focused on what is the best diet for
meditators. I found that an uncooked live food diet is best, not that
one cannot make spiritual progress without it, just that the living
food diet is extremely helpful. Along with this I found that AFA was
specific for meditation. And now, with the new liquid form of AFA -
"E3Live" its positive effect is even more pronounced. So yes, I find
that E3Live is a specific food for enhancing one's ability to focus in
meditation. E3Live helps keeps the mind clear, light and joyful.
Eliot Jay Rosen - Could you compare the energetic and nutritional
differences between E3 AFA and say, Spirulina, or Chlorella.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - For those who know about nutritional edible
algae, there's a tendency to want to compare algae in a competitive
way. But this isn't the way I look at it. Each of these algae have their
proper roles. Chlorella is very specific for getting mercury out of the
system. Spirulina is very good for hepatitis. Although Chlorella or
Spirulina may help mental functioning a little bit, it's nowhere near
the effect that AFA has on mental functioning. So Spirulina works
more on the physical body, and E3Live's real gift to humanity is that
it works more on the mental, emotional and spiritual levels, yet, still
has tremendous effects physically, as I've been mentioning. But it's
the mental functioning where people really feel the difference.
Eliot Jay Rosen - What about E3Live and the immune system?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - A recent study showed that AFA activates up
to 40% more of the immune system's beneficial natural killer cells.
Natural killer cells hunt out viruses and bacteria, even seeking them
out deep in the body's tissues. One of the nice things about AFA is
something I've intuitively known since 1982; it significantly enhances
the immune system. If I feel any kind of viral imbalance coming on, I
take E3Live and it always takes it away.
I also use E3Live for my clients, not only to get rid of symptoms of
disease, but as a preventative measure. I've actually known of two or
three cases where people took the AFA and healed their cancer. This
is not to say that AFA is the primary immune stimulant to use above
any other to fight cancer, but that this algae has some anti-cancer
qualities. Scientists already know that AFA has some anti-HIV
effects, but we need to do a lot more research in these areas.
Eliot Jay Rosen - Have you had any clients that have responded to
using E3Live for weight loss and appetite control?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Yes, I have, but let me say that in my practice,
I don't focus on these issues in particular. What I find is that when I
help people improve their nutritional intake, especially in the
direction of a living food diet, they naturally gravitate back to their
natural, normal and healthiest weight. Appetite control becomes
much less of an issue with most people because when people's
bodies and brains are well-nourished, when they self-regulate and
normalize, they no longer feel depressed and so they don't need to
eat compulsively as a result of depression. As E3Live balances blood
sugar levels, people are not eating to compensate for low blood sugar.
Eliot Jay Rosen -Have you used E3Live successfully with alcohol &
drug problems?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Yes. E3Live is an essential part of my
treatment program. Almost everyone I see, I put on E3Live because it
helps with the underlying depression and helps heal the biologically
altered, addictive brain aspects behind these destructive behaviors. I
believe E3 Live is God's gift for people with a biologically altered
brain because of poor diet and poor genetics. These people suffer a
lot in this world. One way they cope with the suffering is alcoholism
and drugs. There are obviously better, less destructive ways to cope.
In alcoholism and drug addiction, we find subtle and not so subtle
changes in brain chemistry and brain waves. In many of these people,
the pleasure centers of their brains, the dopamine receptors, are not
working correctly. We find that by using E3Live along with other
dietary changes and specific amino acid supplementation, we can
normalize the electroencephalogram (EEG) readings and balance the
central nervous system at the root of the disorder.
For example, if someone's brain function is off, not dramatically in
the sense they are having epileptic seizures, but "sub-clinically" and
out of balance, their EEG isn't really quite right, and we can normalize
it with E3Live, proper nutrition and other supplements. E3Live helps
people eliminate the craving for alcohol and drugs in part because
blood sugar levels are being normalized and the brain is also
functioning better.
There's another hidden aspect in all this that very few people know
about. The hypothalamus is a vitally important gland of the endocrine
system. It is often not functioning properly in drug addiction and
alcoholism. It's very hard to heal the endocrine system, which is
almost always out of balance in drug and alcohol addicted individuals.
It turns out that E3Live is the only vegetarian source I know that
brings hypothalamic function back to normal.
So as you can see, I'm particularly excited about E3Live. It is clearly
the best of all the algae on the market right now for healing and
bringing the hypothalamus back into normal function.
Eliot Jay Rosen - Because E3Live is perishable, it has to be frozen. Is
there a difference between freezing vegetables and fruits and
freezing AFA in terms of its maintaining its nutritional and energetic
properties?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - This species of cyanophyta is genetically
prepared for extreme alterations in temperature. In winter, parts of
Klamath Lake freeze over, including the live AFA growing in the
water. But when the weather warms up, the AFA comes out of its
frozen dormancy phase and resumes its active growth cycle. Its
genetic structure protects it from the effects of the cold, which is
unlike fruits and vegetables, which are destroyed in frost. This is
because AFA is high in lipids and Highly Un-saturated Fatty Acids
(HUFA), which protect it from crystallizing in low temperature
conditions. Bee pollen works the same way, you can freeze it and you
don't damage the nutritional value. So the good news about this is
that the AFA is significantly protected against the effects of freezing.
Eliot Jay Rosen - The term "adaptogen," usually refers to an herb
which has many different ways of working in the body. Could we apply
this term to a food such as E3Live as it's been reported to be
effective for many different health conditions?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens - Yes, I think it is very appropriate to use the
term "adaptogen" in connection with E3Live. It's both a physical
adaptogen as well as a mental adaptogen. In my own life, sometimes
I have to speak for an entire day at conferences. I take E3Live as sort
of a mental adaptogen for the stress of putting out so much energy.
AFA is also a physical adaptogen in that it increases physical energy.
There are world-class athletes who eat E3Live because they feel it
gives them a "competitive edge."
Eliot Jay Rosen - Dr. Cousens, you've been incredibly generous with
your time. Do you have any last words for us today?
Dr. Gabriel Cousens -
The essence of my message is this: it doesn't matter what our
chronological age is, we can be youthful at any age.
But more important than staying youthful is to understand that
one-sided physical health will never give us the lasting happiness and
love we seek. We want to draw into our lives anything and anyone
that nourishes supports and enhances our spiritual and overall
growth. Life is a great blessing. Health is a great blessing. True gifts
of God are a great blessing, and worthy of any effort or expense.
Resources:
- The Official E3 Live website
- E3 Live on the Raw Diet Health Store Website