June 2013

Vol. II Issue VI

Lost African Secrets Reignite

Your Sexual Desire
S ex is an emotional issue. But it’s more than just simply
getting an erection. It’s also about libido, or the natural
desire for the pleasure of sex.
Modern medicine knows their drugs come up short.
But it shouldn’t surprise you that their solution to this
shortcoming is another drug.

I get asked about this all the time by both men I just read an article in The New York Times Magazine
and women. Because western drugs can help with about a new drug they’re developing that they hope will
the mechanics of an erection. But loss of desire is not boost your libido. 1
something western science is equipped to deal with.
It includes a bit of synthetic testosterone and a
During my first trip to Africa, the healers there synthetic molecule that will artificially increase certain
revealed to me a wide variety of herbs and plants they use chemicals in your brain to help you relax.
as aphrodisiacs – something that increases your libido.
They’ve been using them since antiquity, and I knew
I wanted to investigate further. This is an area where
modern medical science either has its head buried in the
sand, or is hopelessly clueless about.

Today I want to show you some of what I found on

my most recent trip, how drug companies have tried to
mimic these natural plants with their ED drugs, and how
I’m going to help you reignite the passion you want but
that may be going or gone completely naturally.

The Sex “Act”

Drug companies want you to think they have it all
covered. Just look at their commercials. They show men This hoslundia opposita plant I found in Uganda, which has many
medicinal uses, wasn’t in season yet, so it didn’t have its tasty little
and women having fun together as couples and looking
red-orange berries. But the leaves are really what I was research-
longingly at each other. Then your brain associates their ing… a natural, native African aphrodisiac.
drug with this environment of “desire.” But it’s a sham.
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The drugs don’t create desire. Those are actors.

In reality, ED drugs do nothing to increase desire. In This Issue…

Even the components that in nature do stimulate desire
Lost African Secrets Reignite Your Sexual Desire......1
for sex are only mimicked by the drugs … to no effect.
What good is the ability to have sex without the “feel Unleash Your Inner Gorilla...........................................4
good” part? Ancient Tree Is an Overlooked Cancer Killer............6
 We’ve known for years that less anxiety and stress help vaginal dryness in women. Sometimes, this dryness can
your libido. That’s why, if you’ve lost some of your libido, cause women to avoid sex, and hoslundia helps restore a
your doctor may give you an anti-depressant to try and lift woman’s body processes that help create a healthy, normal
your spirits. sex drive.

This only makes the problem worse. Many of the active Dr. Mawanda, the doctor I’ve written to you about who
ingredients in popular anti-depressants suppress libido. has a degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Nutrition
Some even make it impossible to get an erection. from the University of Beijing, and who also formed a
natural medicine development organization in Africa called
Fortunately, nature has provided us with effective, NAMEDO, is also a traditional African healer. He tells me
natural solutions to the problem of lost desire and lower that this science I’ve referenced proves why Africans have
libido. used hoslundia since ancient times to help women relieve
But there seemed to be so many that I decided to find their painful menstruation, headache, and dizziness. For
out which are the ones known to work and which are old men, besides being a libido booster, hoslundia acts as a
wives tales. I set out to talk to herbalists, pore over the natural corticosteroid, relieving pain, stress and anxiety,
available research, and ask all the questions I could while I which all interfere with the natural desire for sex.
was in Africa.
Magic Herb
I was happy to find that many of the herbs I heard about
The roots and leaves of the Carissa spinarum plant are
really do increase sexual desire. Soon I’ll be putting a few
so useful to Ugandans that they call it “magic herb.”
of them together in a new formula I’m creating that could
restore the kind of drive and potency you may have lost It’s also a strong aphrodisiac.
over the years.
Herbal healers use it to lower blood pressure, reduce
Doing What The Drugs Do… Naturally fever, and treat asthma, arthritis, allergies, and diabetes.

The herb Hoslundia opposita is one of the first I looked Carissa usually grows as a thick shrub, but it can become
into. In Uganda they call it kamunye. It’s a member of an dense and climb up to almost 25 feet tall. Many people in
elite group of herbs that make up the family lamiaciae. You
probably know them better as mints.

But hoslundia is no ordinary mint. The roots and leaves

of this plant act as a powerful aphrodisiac. They can also
eliminate fatigue and help you to handle stress,2 which
makes it even easier to perform in the bedroom.

In many clinical trials that have looked at many different

animals, one of hoslundia’s components, eugenol, is known
to increase sexual and mating activity.3 Carissa – the magic herb – grows in many places in Africa but is not
grown commercially, so there is no place you can get a reliable supply.
And the essential oils and other components of I am trying to change that so I can bring this aphrodisiac and immune
hoslundia, like eugenol, but also limonene, cineole and beta booster into the States.
caryophyllene, are what give you an uplifting and refreshing Africa plant it as a privacy hedge and then eat the fruit
effect4 when you take hoslundia. This helps put you “in the called bush plums right from their yard.
mood,” which no modern drug can do.
They also make a refreshing pink wine with them. And
In Africa, it is well-established through generations of if you leave that to ferment a little longer, it turns into a very
healing knowledge that boiling the stems, roots, flowers useful vinegar.
and leaves (called a decoction) make a formula that treats
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 But it’s the root of this member of the dogbane family
that’s made into a decoction and used as an aphrodisiac and
sexual stimulant.

In Ghana, the root sap is used to restore a man’s virility.5

In South Africa, they make a stimulating and aphrodisiac
tea from the stem.

The components are a good diuretic. That means it

lowers blood pressure, which helps relieve symptoms of
erectile dysfunction. You see, when your blood flows more
easily, it makes it easier to get an erection when you’re
aroused.

Carissa also has components called indole alkaloids.

These are present in many of the known aphrodisiac
plants… and they’re what the ED drugs like Sildenafil citrate The chemical makeup of the Sacred Blue Lily hides a secret the drug
are based on. You might know that one better as Viagra. companies would prefer I not tell you…

The “magic herb” isn’t grown commercially, only locally The chemical makeup of the blue lotus is what many of
at this point. But one of the things I’ve been doing with SEFA today’s ED drugs are based on.
Organic, an organic and natural health products company
You see, the lotus’ chemical structure involves
in Kampala, Uganda, is to try and help them, as well as local
phosphodiester bonds. Synthetic phosphodiesterases are
growers, to cultivate some of the powerful herbs I’ve found
the active ingredients in ED drugs.
so that we have a source of them to bring back to you in the
States. You can get the dried stamens, the most prized part
of the lotus, from specialty shops and from online herb
However, one herb that is available but that almost no
suppliers like alibaba.com, but many people try to pass off
one in the West knows about is the sacred blue lotus…
Nelumbo nucifera as sacred blue lily, but don’t be fooled:
The “Nymph” Lily Nymphaea caerulea is what you are looking for.

When archaeologists opened the tomb of King Tut in It’s so good at reigniting sexual desire, that I’ve already
1922, they found him covered in Nymphaea caerulea – put the purest extract form of the sacred blue lily into a
sacred blue lily. formula I use with my patients right now. And I’ll also
include it in my upcoming African aphrodisiac formula
The blue lotus or blue water lily was used in ancient that will be available soon.
Egypt as a key to good health, sex and rebirth. It gives you a References:
relaxing, euphoric sensation. It puts the good in “feel good.”
1 Bergner, D. “Unexcited? There May Be a Pill for That.” New
It’s been known as an aphrodisiac for so long that the York Times Magazine, May 22, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
2 Olajide O, Awe S, Makinde J. “Central nervous system depressant
word “nymph” is in its scientific name. effect of Hoslundia opposita vahl.” Phytother Res. 1999 Aug;13(5):425-6.
3. Criddle D, Madeira S, Soares de Moura R. “Endothelium-
The sacred blue lotus has quite a few components that give dependent and -independent vasodilator effects of eugenol in the rat
your body a boost. It had quercetin, a known performance mesenteric vascular bed.” J Pharm Pharmacol. 2003 Mar;55(3):359-65.
4. Hongratanaworakit T. “Relaxing effect of rose oil
enhancer, and beta-sitosterol,6 which improves a decreased on humans.” Nat Prod Commun. 2009 Feb;4(2):291-6.
desire for sex. 5 Burkill H.M. “The useful plants of West Tropical Africa.”
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 1985. Edition 2. Vol. 1.
And, even if you have heard of the sacred blue lily, 6 Agnihotri V, Elsohly H, Khan S, Smillie T, Khan I, Walker
here’s something almost no one knows, and that the drug L. “Antioxidant constituents of Nymphaea caerulea flowers.”
Phytochemistry. 2008 Jul;69(10):2061-6. ■
companies would prefer I kept quiet…

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 Unleash Your Inner Gorilla
H ow close was I?

Closer than I was supposed to be. You aren’t supposed

to get within 30 feet … but you know I always live on the
edge.

All it would have taken was for him to swat me and it

would have been devastating.

Gorillas have so much power. And they’re really massive.

Seeing them in the zoo doesn’t quite give you the same
feeling as seeing them in the wild.

You see them just grab a tree as big around as my leg

and bend it down so they can eat. You see how massive their
hands are and their heads and their necks.

Gorillas are immensely strong, but did you know that

I’m glad he decided I wasn’t a threat and walked away. But with one
they rarely stress their muscles and spend most of their time swat, he could have devastated me!
relaxing? And did you know that they are also amazingly
healthy? That they almost never get sick? Not colds, not flu,
not even cancer….

Gorillas and humans are more than 98% the same from
a DNA perspective.

So what accounts for their incredible strength and good

health?

I took the opportunity to study them during my most

recent trip to Africa, in the same way I wanted to learn
from other cultures. I consider them a primal connection
to the ancient world. And we might be the last generation
of humans to see them in the wild.

Here are the two secrets I believe are the keys to the
gorilla’s immense strength and amazing good health. You
can use them to unleash your inner gorilla and be strong, I guess I had the camera pointed at this gorilla too long because it
started toward me. I had to freeze in the middle of this photo, like they
potent and healthy for life: tell you to do, so it came out blurry… but you can see how close I was
to this giant!
1) Eat your native foods for a powerful, healthy
body: Gorillas in the wild rarely get sick, and are very active at every age. But when you take gorillas out of their native
environment and away from their native diet, they get weaker, old before their time, and develop the same chronic diseases
humans get.

We don’t live in our native environment any longer, and we don’t eat our native diet. Corn and grains have migrated
into modern culture, and now we have chronic diseases that never existed before.

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 But if you switch back to your native diet, which was It’s the amount of energy you have available to do
full of protein and healthy fats, you can regain your potency everything you want to do.
and power, and stay active and healthy. Here are three easy
I’ve never heard anyone else use power in quite the
rules of thumb we can take from gorillas and other powerful
same way. Usually, power is used to mean overall strength.
animals that they use to keep their powerful, healthy bodies
But I’m thinking of it in terms of the energy you need to do
for life:
work.
First: Focus all your meals around high-quality protein.
To get more energy and power, all you have to do is
You should eat a large variety, and plan your meals around
continually challenge your peak of intensity, never quite
which kind of protein you’ll be eating.
reaching it... and keep the duration of the challenge brief.
Second: Fruits and vegetables, not grains, should make
Your body will start to use the food you eat better.
up your carbohydrates. And the more variety you can get
Your newly powerful muscles will become giant engines of
the better. Eating seasonally grown produce is a good idea,
transformation and you’ll start to favor building muscles
because it’ll be local and not frozen or imported from long
over storing fat.
distances. Look for fresh seasonal produce at local farmers
markets and natural food stores like Whole Foods. To help you do this, you can build up a part of your
body that is one of the gorilla’s great secrets to strength and
Third: Watch what you snack on. Make your snacks
power. The gluteus … or your rear end.
natural. Stay away from:

• high-fructose corn syrup

• trans fats

• gluten

• processed soy protein

• aspartame and artificial sweeteners

Instead, snack on seeds, nuts, and other foods in as

close to their natural state as possible. These are high energy
foods that help not only fill you up so you don’t get hungry,
but give you quick energy without sugar spikes and crashes.

2) Imitate nature for power on demand: Gorillas are

almost 10 times as strong as even the strongest human, and
they can run at 25 miles an hour. They’re designed for high- I took this with my little Nikon pocket camera on the Uganda Congo
capacity bursts of speed and strength. border last year…

And so are you. Here’s a great set of movements that will help you build
Problem is, modern exercises train you for endurance. incredible power in the large muscles of your lower body,
That makes you age faster and saps your power. and especially your gluteus.

To regain your power, all you have to do is physically My favorite way to build power in the lower half of your
challenge your muscles with very brief and increasingly body is with the squat thrust. They’re great because you can
intense periods of exertion … and then rest. modify them for any level of fitness or capacity.

What do I mean by power?

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 To do a regular squat thrust: patients at my Center for Health and Wellness. Acceleration
is so beneficial because you can feel the increase in metabolic
1. Stand straight with your arms at your sides. power and you have it at your fingertips all the time.
2. Squat down. You’ll jump out of bed with more energy than you’ve ever
3. Lean forward and place your hands on the had. You’ll have a sense of real hope. You’ll feel good all the
floor. time. All because of building up your “gorilla strength.” ■

4. Kick your legs backward so that you’re in

push-up or “plank” position. Ancient Tree Is
5. Keeping your upper body in place, pull your
legs forward (back into squat position).
An Overlooked
6. Stand back up into starting position. Cancer Killer
To do the advanced military-style squat thrust:

1. Stand straight with your arms at your sides.

“A re you serious, “Dad?”

I shaved off the rest of the bark, chopped a good

piece off, washed it and handed it to my son Dylan.
2. Squat down.
“Chew on that. Your sore throat will be gone in a little
3. Lean forward and place your hands on the while.”
floor.
The gummy acacia root I had just dug up from my yard
4. Kick your legs backward so that you’re in is a traditional African cure for a sore throat or cough. And
push-up or “plank” position. it works fast.

5. Perform a push-up by lowering your body to

the ground and back up.

6. Keeping your upper body in place, pull your

legs forward (back into squat position).

7. Jump up and throw your arms in the air.

If you’re just beginning, or very de-conditioned, after

you squat, simply stand back up and raise your arms in the
air. They try it again. After you’re progressed, then try and
do movements #3, 4, and 5.

Do three sets, and don’t let any set go more than three On the hunt: There are over 40,000 medicinal plants in Africa, and
Western medicine has only explored a few thousand. That’s why I
minutes. Build intensity by squatting faster, or doing more
spend so much time traveling and researching there. My main pur-
reps. Accelerate the challenge by resting for less time pose? Finding natural cures and remedies to bring back to you.
between reps and sets.

This will really build your glutes and legs, and give you I’ve been doing a lot of research on acacia since I got
“gorilla strength” that will keep you moving and active for back from Africa. Seems like every animal there eats it,
life. And as you train for power, something surprising will especially giraffes and elephants.
also start to happen… as you’re able to get energy from
And acacia kept coming up in conversations with my
your muscles fast, you’ll start to feel energetic all the time.
doctor and herbalist friends there.
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 Richard Othieno, an incredibly knowledgeable herbalist
and botanist, showed me how the locals use acacia to treat
tonsillitis, skin diseases, headache, malaria, ulcers … and
against cancer.

Richard works with Dr. Kiwalabye, the doctor who I’ve

written to you about who is so talented at curing all kinds of
cancers naturally. Richard and Dr. Kiwalabye are working
together to help establish herbal gardens in Uganda that
can be harvested for medicinal purposes.

Western Doctors Clueless On Acacia

There are more than a thousand different kinds of
acacia trees. Most grow in a more arid environment than
Western Uganda where there are mountains and the Bwindi
Impenetrable Forest, which is really a rainy jungle.
When I was in Ngorongoro Park in Africa I caught this guy checking
As you go east and get into Tanzania, Kenya and Sudan, me out while I was snapping a picture of him… I guess I interrupted
you have dry plains. So the acacias there are more thorny. his afternoon snack of those acacia trees behind him.
They have fewer leaves and don’t have the eye-popping
white or yellow flowers. The wildlife live on them wherever acacia trees because of their power to kill cancer cells.
they grow, and the people in these different areas have all Only two acacia species that I know of grow in the U.S.,
found different medicinal uses for them. and I have a few small ones in my yard. Western medicine
Of course you’d never catch a standard U.S. doctor doesn’t know much about acacia. But they’re everywhere in
giving their son some root from the Acacia farnesiana, or Africa.
sweet acacia. They’d be horrified if they saw me do it. With my interest renewed, I started looking into acacias
But it’s only because most doctors were never taught again. I found that most of the research has been done in
anything about herbal medicine. places where the tree is common, like India, Egypt and
China, but little in the West.
Shortly after medical school I went back and did post-
graduate research on healing plants and herbal medicine. But that research gives us plenty of evidence for their
I read over 100 books on the subject and have made it my effectiveness against cancer.
career to go to every area of the world and seek out their For instance, the Acacia nilotica is common in Asia and
healing traditions and find and bring back forgotten secrets India. And Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine
of how these plants can heal. doctors often use it as an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant,
One of the first books I read is Dr. Leland Hartwell’s and to heal cancers and kill off tumors.
Plants Used Against Cancer. Hartwell wasn’t as well-known When a group of cancer researchers at the School of
at the time, but now he’s famous. Life Sciences at Bharathiar University in India combined
He’s a professor of genetics and medicine and the former an acacia leaf extract with gamma sitosterol, it stopped over
president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 54% of breast cancer cells and over 58% of lung cancer cells
in Seattle. But you might know him better as the 2001 Nobel from multiplying. And the acacia extract killed off 42% of
Prize winner who helped explain how cells divide. breast cancer cells and almost 37% of lung cancer cells. 1

Professor Hartwell mentioned different species of acacia

many times in his book. So I’ve always been interested in
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 Nature’s Cancer-Killing Compounds Acrolein is one of them. It’s a chemical we’re exposed
to all the time. It’s used as a pesticide, it’s a product of
The key to the anti-cancer power of the acacia seems cigarette smoke, and it’s so toxic that it may cause cancer
to be its triterpene saponins, and catechins. Triterpene and Alzheimer’s.
saponins are compounds that help give plants their
medicinal power, and catechins are powerful antioxidants A team at the Department of Integrated Traditional
produced by plants. You may know EGCG, the catechin Chinese and Western Medicine at Sichuan University in
from green tea. And acacia has compounds very similar. China were looking into the antioxidant strength of acacia
extract. And when they treated brain cells with it, they
In Egypt, they used an extract of the pods from the found that a compound from the extract of acacia, called
acacia similar to EGCG, the active compound in green tea, REO can protect brain cells from free radical damage and
to kill cancerous cells from a rare cancer of the eye, uvea cell death. 7
melanoma. 2
Other recent studies from researchers worldwide have
A study from Greece also found acacia extracts with also found that acacia extracts are powerful antioxidants
these components can kill off different kinds of lung cancer and have a lot of promise as antioxidant supplements. 8,9
cells. 3
My Home Brew
I discovered an overlooked study from the M.D.
Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, where they In addition to acacia’s other powerful medicinal uses,
now describe acacia as a “novel anticancer agent.” When the gum of the acacia will also kill bacteria that cause gum
they tested acacia, they found that it stopped the growth disease, and as my son found out, it also helps cure a cough
of several tumor cell lines, killed off breast cancer cells, or sore throat. And the gum will soothe scratches and
and eradicated a kind of cancer that attacks your t-cells rashes, too.
(immune cells). 4

A study from Mexico reveals that acacia is effective

against colon and cervical cancer. 5

Liver cancer isn’t as rare as it used to be, and researchers

around the world have been looking into ways to beat it. An
animal study from the Institute of Agricultural Sciences,
Banaras Hindu University in India shows the potential for
acacia to treat liver cancer.
The study took an extract of acacia bark and treated rats
with liver cancer. In just a little over three months, signs
of cancer had all but disappeared. Their liver injuries had
been reduced, and the markers for cancer had all returned
to normal. 6

As I read through the study, I found that not only Acacia trees have beautiful, very fragrant yellow and sometimes white
flowers.
had the acacia bark extract erased the cancer, but it had
increased the activities of the powerful antioxidant enzymes You can also grow your own acacia tree, either outdoors
catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, and (if you live in a very warm climate) or in a pot that you can
glutathione-S-transferase in the liver of the animals. bring indoors (they don’t like it to get below 60 degrees).
Acacia is also an effective antioxidant against toxins You’ll love the way the yellow flowers smell.
that can cause brain diseases like Alzheimer’s. If you want to get acacia’s antioxidant and cancer-prevention
in a supplement, several companies like Now Foods, Heather’s

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they call “acacia fiber.” Look for pure, organic gum powder. 7 Huang W, Niu H, Xue X, Li J, Li C. “… prorobinetinidin
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Swanson’s also makes an acacia extract from the wood cytotoxic, and hemolytic activities of an active antioxidant compound
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tonic, too, to use the way they do in Africa. But the way Ethnopharmacol. 1998 Jan;59(3):173-7. ■
I use acacia is to take some of the dried gum, flowers and
leaves and make a tea. Al Sears, M.D.
I make my own recipe I call Acacia Ginger Tea. You’ll Al Sears, M.D., is a medical doctor and one of
need: the nation’s first board-certified anti-aging physicians.
• 1 tablespoon dried acacia gum As a board-certified clinical nutritionist,
strength coach, ACE-certified fitness
• Several fresh acacia flowers trainer and author, Dr. Sears enjoys a
• A few acacia leaves worldwide readership and has appeared
on more than 50 national radio
• 1 tablespoon fresh grated ginger root programs, ABC News, CNN and ESPN.

• 4 cups of water In 2010, Dr. Sears unveiled his proven anti-aging strategies
in Reset Your Biological Clock. As the first U.S. doctor
All you have to do is to pour boiling water over the blend licensed to administer a groundbreaking DNA therapy that
of acacia and ginger and let it steep for 10 to 15 minutes. activates the gene that regulates telomerase, Dr. Sears made
The infusion will turn a light brownish-orange color. history by bringing telomere biology to the general public.

You can drink it hot, or cold over ice with a sprig of In 2006, Dr. Sears shocked the fitness world by revealing
mint. But I like to put in a little stevia for a bit of sweetness the dangers of aerobics, “cardio” and long-distance running
and drink it that way. in his book, PACE: The 12-Minute Fitness Revolution.

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the true cause of heart disease and expose the misguided
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