If you are interested in your health in the least bit, you know that candy bars are not the best form of food for you. Loaded with sugar, and short on protein, they give the body a quick lift without providing any real nourishment. The lift soon gives way to a letdown and you feel hungrier than before. Many also contain hydrogenated oils and a slew of artificial ingredients.

But candy bars are quick and convenient. They have a long shelf life and can be sold in vending machines. They taste good – actually they can be addictive – and can stave off hunger and cravings. But they elevate your blood sugar and make you gain weight. Even athletes use them for a convenient quick dose of energy. So what does a health conscious consumer do in this candy bar culture?

Energy bars to the rescue. They look and taste like candy bars, have the shelf life of candy bars, contain protein and fiber, are loaded with vitamins and minerals. They are convenient and they taste good. And somehow we have been duped into thinking this is ‘healthy snack food’, or worse yet, a ‘meal replacement’.

The original energy bars, such as the Power Bar and the Source Bar, were based on so-called ‘natural’ sweeteners – high fructose corn syrup and juice concentrates – along with dried fruits and nuts, a combination that resulted in higher percentages of carbohydrates than the typical chocolate candy bar (which is rich in cocoa butter, a healthy natural fat).

The energy bar industry exploded with the advent of cheap soy and whey proteins that could be added to make a ‘high-protein’ bar. Balance Bars (“The Complete Nutritional Food Bar”) and ZonePerfect Bars (“All Natural Nutrition Bars”), and Atkins Bars were among the first to hit the shelves as energy/protein bars.

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What do pesticides, chemicals, unsaturated and hydrogenated fats, fluoridated water, microwaved foods, dental fillings, and stress all have in common? They all lead to the depletion of our body’s natural supply of enzymes.

So what are enzymes? Enzymes are the special proteins in our bodies that “do the work” required for all of our internal processes. Life as we know it cannot exist without enzymes. In fact, all living things contain enzymes!

Each of these enzymes has a job to do. And that job may be: Digestion of a certain kind of food, the manufacture of a hormone, or keeping your blood clean and free of toxins. Ultimately, our life, vitality, and health all depend upon an adequate supply of enzymes!

Imagine your body as your physical “home.” In this instance, enzymes are the “construction workers” responsible for all the building, repair and maintenance required to keep you running in tip-top shape, using vitamins and minerals as the building “materials.” In your body, you may have an ample supply of building material but not enough workers, or enzymes, to complete the job. Those building materials will remain unused or wasted until enough workers (enzymes) show up at the job site. Make sense?

Therefore, creating a solid foundation for our “home” is of utmost importance. And it’s good to keep in mind that our bodies are driven by food. Think for a moment about the foods you crave; these cravings are actually a sign of deeper nutritional issues, serving as a “cry” for specific nutrients. Not knowing any better, we, in turn, rush in and give our bodies a “quick fix” via the foods we choose in response to the craving.

The good news is that we can learn to work with our body’s natural abilities for optimum wellness! We can begin to care for our bodies in just the right way by changing some old habits and patterns and creating new ones that sustain us and lead to vibrant health.

Of course, we can take vitamin and mineral supplements to boost our health, but in reality, these vitamins and minerals are only “co-enzymes” and can do nothing for us without the foundation of our body’s enzymes. Because it’s so easy for our body’s natural enzyme supply to be depleted, it’s essential that we not only have the foundation of a healthy diet… but it’s also a smart idea to take plant enzymes regularly so that our natural supply is not exhausted!

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• DONE wishing for better health?
• TIRED of just talking about what to do next?
• READY to make positive changes and live a more vibrant life?
• SUFFERING from health symptoms that are unexplained or unrelieved?
• Are you ready to create optimum wellness and vibrant health?! Ready to feel strong and alive? Then it’s time to get in touch with Jill Redfern at Women’s Health Advantage to assist you in creating your best life ever! Jill can guide you in any dietary, digestion, and nutritional issues and help you get going with vibrant health TODAY! After all, if not now… when?

Jill Redfern is a registered nurse in the Valencia area with 30 years of experience in both traditional and alternative medicine and a pioneer in the field of women’s alternative health and enzyme therapy.

In the last article, we discussed the definition of enzymes and how they go to work in our bodies. As a quick reminder, enzymes are: The special proteins in our bodies that “do the work” required for all of our internal processes. And each enzyme has a specific job to do whether it’s the digestion of a certain kind of food, the manufacture of a hormone, or keeping your blood clean and free of toxins.

To break it down even further, the three types of enzymes are:

Metabolic enzymes. These enzymes run our body’s chemistry and are involved in all body processes including breathing, thinking, talking, moving and immunity. They exist in our organs, bones, blood, and inside our cells; they are instrumental in the growth of new cells and maintenance of all tissue.

Pancreatic enzymes. These are “digestive” enzymes that are secreted mainly by the pancreas, but also in the mouth, stomach, and small intestine; they play a vital role in the digestion of food.

Plant enzymes. These enzymes, which are present in all raw plants, are essential in the proper digestion of food. Unlike pancreatic enzymes, plant enzymes work in the mouth and stomach where they predigest foods. Plant enzymes also operate in the small intestine, aiding pancreatic enzymes in continuing the digestive process.

In order for us not to use up our reserves of the naturally-occurring metabolic enzymes, we can supplement with plant enzymes to spare our bodies from depleting our precious metabolic enzymes. Remember in the last article, we talked about how our body’s natural supply of enzymes can also be depleted by things such as pesticides and chemicals, unsaturated and hydrogenated fats (trans fats), microwaved foods, amalgam dental fillings, and stress.

So, it’s important to stay on top of our health! And supplementing with plant enzymes can maximize digestion, absorption, and assimilation of food. These enzymes also help to keep the body in proper pH balance, reverse nutritional deficiency, and detoxify in a very gentle manner.

Of course, to create vibrant health, we must first establish a solid foundation which entails a healthy diet. The next step, then, is in taking plant enzymes to assure that our food gets broken down properly and transported to, and utilized by, the appropriate cells… leading to optimum wellness!

Your body thanks you for taking the time to read this article and making your health a priority! Stay tuned for Part 3 to continue to learn more about the importance of enzymes.

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• TIRED of just talking about what to do next?
• READY to make positive changes and live a more vibrant life?
• SUFFERING from health symptoms that are unexplained or unrelieved?
• Are you ready to create optimum wellness and vibrant health?! Ready to feel strong and alive? Then it’s time to get in touch with Jill Redfern at Women’s Health Advantage to assist you in creating your best life ever! Jill can guide you in any dietary, digestion, and nutritional issues and help you get going with vibrant health TODAY! After all, if not now… when?

Jill Redfern is a registered nurse in the Valencia area with 30 years of experience in both traditional and alternative medicine and a pioneer in the field of women’s alternative health and enzyme therapy.

In the previous articles, we discussed the importance of enzymes in our bodies that do the work required for all life processes. The three types of enzymes are: 1) metabolic enzymes, 2) pancreatic enzymes, and 3) plant enzymes.

Research has shown that low enzyme levels can lead to illness. In fact, eighty percent of our body’s energy is expended by the digestive process. And if you are run down, under stress, eating a less than ideal diet, or dealing with major life changes then enormous quantities of extra enzymes are required by your body.

It is known that all disease has a nutritional beginning, and a lack of sufficient enzymes plays a role in that process. In the last article, we said that in order to stay on top of our health, it’s important to supplement our diets with plant enzymes; to maximize our digestion, absorption, and assimilation of nutrients in the food we eat. Our entire system functions through enzymatic action.

And as we age, we slowly begin to lose the ability to produce an adequate number of enzymes on our own. You may not even notice the gradual progression of your energy and vitality slipping away. Until one day you find yourself about to engage in your favorite activity (gardening, tennis, biking)… and all of a sudden it has become too much work.

So how do I slow down this aging process, you ask?

Step One:
A healthy, nutrient-rich diet. This includes foods such as organically-grown vegetables and fruits, grass-fed beef and raw milk products. And once you’ve laid that foundation…

Step Two:
Enzyme supplementation. Did you know that you can eat all the healthy food you want, and even take the very best vitamin and mineral supplements, but you’ve just wasted your money if you can’t break it all down and get it to the appropriate cells? See, vitamins and minerals are merely “co-enzymes,” which means that they require enzyme action to even do their work. If you don’t supplement with enzymes, your money and effort toward a healthy diet becomes wasted.

It’s really pretty simple.

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• DONE wishing for better health?
• TIRED of just talking about what to do next?
• READY to make positive changes and live a more vibrant life?
• SUFFERING from health symptoms that are unexplained or unrelieved?
• Are you ready to create optimum wellness and vibrant health?! Ready to feel strong and alive? Then it’s time to get in touch with Jill Redfern at Women’s Health Advantage to assist you in creating your best life ever! Jill can guide you in any dietary, digestion, and nutritional issues and help you get going with vibrant health TODAY! After all, if not now… when?

Jill Redfern is a registered nurse in the Valencia area with 30 years of experience in both traditional and alternative medicine and a pioneer in the field of women’s alternative health and enzyme therapy.

Everyone knows I’m a big advocate of prevention but should something as devastating as a heart attack occur, especially when you are alone, it’s important to know some simple techniques that could increase your odds of survival.

So, along with the gifts, flowers and kisses please cut this out and give it to everyone you love this Valentines Day… it could save their life.

Picture this: it’s 6:15 p.m. and you’re driving home (alone of course), after an unusually frantic day at work. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.

Suddenly you start experiencing severe chest pain that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the nearest hospital but you’re not certain if you’ll be able to make it that far. You’ve had some basic CPR training but can’t recall the instructor ever explaining how to perform it on yourself!

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, a person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness. However, you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.

A deep breath should be taken before each cough and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as if producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated approximately every two seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and the coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm giving the victim precious additional seconds or minutes to summon or get to professional help.

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• SUFFERING from health symptoms that are unexplained or unrelieved?
• Are you ready to create optimum wellness and vibrant health?! Ready to feel strong and alive? Then it’s time to get in touch with Jill Redfern at Women’s Health Advantage to assist you in creating your best life ever! Jill can guide you in any dietary, digestion, and nutritional issues and help you get going with vibrant health TODAY! After all, if not now… when?

Jill Redfern is a registered nurse in the Valencia area with 30 years of experience in both traditional and alternative medicine and a pioneer in the field of women’s alternative health and enzyme therapy.

Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the U.S. Understanding the true essence of the disease is crucial to combating it. In the media and in medical offices, hype has been centered on cholesterol levels and the consumption of animal fats, two theories that face much scientific controversy.

Heart disease actually encompasses a number of straight-forward factors that we should focus on:

Excess consumption of vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats (trans-fats).
Excess consumption of refined carbohydrates in the form of sugar and white flour.
Mineral deficiencies, in particular magnesium and iodine.
Deficiencies of vitamins, in particular vitamins A, C and D. These are needed for the integrity of the blood vessel walls.
Deficiencies of antioxidants like selenium and vitamin E which protect us from free radicals.
Disappearance of antimicrobial fats from our food supply, primarily, animal fats and tropical oils (coconut and palm oil). These protect us from us against both viruses and bacteria that have been associated with the onset of pathogenic plaque that can lead to heart disease.
The prevention of heart disease cannot be achieved with the current focus on lowering cholesterol. Despite its bad rap, cholesterol (like good fat) actually plays a vital role in our health and is an essential component for life and a multitude of normal body functions.

A much better approach for prevention includes:

Consuming a diet that provides animal foods (properly raised), rich in protective fats and vitamins B6 and B12.
Bolstering thyroid function through daily use of natural sea salt.
Avoiding vitamin and mineral deficiencies that make the artery walls more prone to ruptures and the build up of plaque. This can be accomplished by including antimicrobial fats in the diet and eliminating processed foods containing refined carbohydrates, oxidized cholesterol and free-radical-containing vegetable oils that cause the body to need constant repair.
Better tests for evaluating heart disease are available and should include:

Triglycerides – Elevated triglycerides in the blood have been linked to heart disease, but these triglycerides do not come directly from dietary fats; they are made in the liver and stem from foods containing unhealthy carbohydrates, particularly refined sugar and white flour.
Lp(a)
Homocysteine – Has been positively correlated with pathological build-up of plaque and the tendency to form clots.
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• Are you ready to create optimum wellness and vibrant health?! Ready to feel strong and alive? Then it’s time to get in touch with Jill Redfern at Women’s Health Advantage to assist you in creating your best life ever! Jill can guide you in any dietary, digestion, and nutritional issues and help you get going with vibrant health TODAY! After all, if not now… when?

Jill Redfern is a registered nurse in the Valencia area with 30 years of experience in both traditional and alternative medicine and a pioneer in the field of women’s alternative health and enzyme therapy.

Jon Benson’s Holiday Survival Pocket Guide

As all of you know, I’m committed to seeing you through this Holiday Season with less body fat and more muscle! You can do this. You do not need to use this time of year as an excuse… in fact, it can be the strongest time of the year for you. Why is that? Well, consider this: if you can actually progress between now and January 1st of next year, just think what you can do in the New Year! Imagine the confidence you would have walking into the brand new year with a better body rather than entering the new year with more fat, less energy, and a “blah” attitude.

Let’s get started with my favorite Holiday Survival Tips…

Low Calories The Day Before
Simply reducing your calories to about half your normal intake the day before a larger meal can work wonders. This way you will balance things out over two days. Just be sure to eat frequently on the low-cal day so you don’t slow down your metabolism.

Low Carbs The Day After
Reduce your carbs to about 50 grams the day after your holiday meal. Yes, that means no leftovers (I’ll get to that in a second.). This will help your insulin levels return to normal, and get your fat-burning kicked off again after the feast. Be sure to get all of your carbs from veggies on this day.

Give Away Your Leftovers
This is a tip I mention every year, and it makes everyone really happy. Instead of making Aunt Edna feel bad about not taking a ton of food home with you, go ahead and accept her hospitality – and then give it away to people without food that very same day. These folks are pretty easy to find if you live in a big city. If not, a few phone calls to half-way houses will be all you’ll need to do in order to really make someone’s holiday very special. This also will save you from the temptation of having a ton of bad food around the house!

Keep Lean Protein High
Be sure to chow on the protein during your holiday meals. Keep the carb foods low to moderate. Spread them out over the day so you don’t eat too much all at once as well.

Drink A Ton Of Water
Drink about a quart of water prior to going to your festivities, and at least that much during and after. This will help flush the toxins through your system, and it will actually make you less hungry.

Keep Desserts To One Serving
Is it REALLY that much to ask? Enjoy a nice dessert after your protein-rich meal, but pass on the seconds. Remember, it’s not the last time you’ll ever eat pie…

Go For A Walk After Eating
Research shows that a 45-minute brisk walk after eating a high-fat meal can reverse the damage done to your arteries. Obviously it will help you feel better as well, and it improves digestion. Use this as a “family time” activity. Suggest a walk around a mall, or perhaps the town centre or neighborhood. Enjoy the time, and get more fit, all at the same time.

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• SUFFERING from health symptoms that are unexplained or unrelieved?
• Are you ready to create optimum wellness and vibrant health?! Ready to feel strong and alive? Then it’s time to get in touch with Jill Redfern at Women’s Health Advantage to assist you in creating your best life ever! Jill can guide you in any dietary, digestion, and nutritional issues and help you get going with vibrant health TODAY! After all, if not now… when?

Jill Redfern is a registered nurse in the Valencia area with 30 years of experience in both traditional and alternative medicine and a pioneer in the field of women’s alternative health and enzyme therapy.

Ladies, admit it. Though we don’t talk about it openly, every one of us wants to look better than our best friend. Not in a malicious, catty way, but in a way that shouts to the world, I’m healthy and I look great! And what woman doesn’t have the desire to be seen as the sexiest thing alive by her romantic partner? With summer just around the corner, promising days of blistering heat – which demand less clothing – there’s no better time to get healthy and look great.

Contrary to what the media would have us believe, looking and feeling great this summer will not come in the form of a diet, a bathing suit that hides trouble spots, or doing sit-ups every night before bed. The main factor in looking and feeling great is the food we put into our bodies.

Unfortunately people don’t realize the extent to which food affects our health and appearance. If you think about it, besides water and oxygen, food is the only other thing available for the creation of vitality, beauty and maintenance of our bodies. Food is to our bodies like gas is to our cars. If you put water into the gas tank of your car, would you expect it to run?? No, because that’s not what it requires. Just the same, you shouldn’t expect your body to run off of something other than what it needs. In other words, don’t put dead, poor quality food into your body’s gas tank!

“Some people have the erroneous belief that if we eat poorly we can offset the damage by taking supplements. They use this as a sort of insurance policy. Unfortunately that’s not how the body works.” Jill Redfern, registered nurse and digestive health specialist, knows how overwhelming and difficult it can be to try and change health and eating habits by oneself. With so much misleading information out on the market, Jill takes care to teach her clients how to incorporate their genuinely specific needs into the routines of daily life.

Jill is the owner of Women’s Health Advantage in Newhall. She bases her practice on the philosophy that women should “never settle for ordinary health”. She stresses that we deserve, for the sake of ourselves and our family, to care for and nurture our bodies – after all, we only get one.

At Women’s Health Advantage clients receive full testing and analysis to determine the stressors unique to their bodies. Jill uses data gathered from a specialized urinalysis, hair, saliva, and bowel testing. Using this information she is able to determine a client’s nutrient ratios, toxicity, and the state of their digestion. Once she’s assessed what is biologically occurring in the client’s body she then creates an individualized approach to transform their health and well-being. Her treatment is unique from others’ because she takes a whole body approach to health rather than simply treating a condition or symptom a person might be suffering from.

Summer is quickly approaching and it’ll be time to put on those shorts before you know it. With Jill’s help you can get healthy, feel great, and look better than your best friend before the temperature hits triple digits!

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Jill Redfern is a registered nurse in the Valencia area with 30 years of experience in both traditional and alternative medicine and a pioneer in the field of women’s alternative health and enzyme therapy.

First and foremost… Menopause is NOT a Disease!! (Sometimes the medical community seems to treat it that way – and women then look at themselves as though they are abnormal or sick.) We’ve come a long way since the days that women were shunned into dirty shacks to have their monthly cycles! Now it’s time to shed the same light on the cessation of those cycles.

Menopause is normal; and facing your change of life should be a healthy and positive experience. Simply put, menopause is a marker that signals a change in a woman’s biological life. So let’s delve more deeply into how those changes and our lifestyles, can affect the symptoms that we may experience.

FACT: Estrogen levels, for most menopausal women, only drop to levels below those necessary for pregnancy but remain sufficient for all other normal body functions.

With this in mind, it is actually more accurate to view our menopausal symptoms as abnormalities brought on by our cultural deviation away from a healthy lifestyle. If you have spent decades eating refined and processed food, avoiding exercise and being exposed to a variety of unavoidable xenoestrogens (pesticides, herbicides and petrochemicals), regaining hormone balance may be challenging at best.

But if you are willing to make some changes, there is hope! I must admit, changing my own habits has not been easy. Spending the time and energy to exercise, and actually read labels and make informed choices about what goes into my body, has not always been #1 on my hit parade. But was it worth the effort? Most definitely! Especially the older I get.

A big reason for much of our discomfort is that many of the processed foods we consume are our favorite “comfort foods”. Those yummy, sinful goodies we stuff in our mouths when we’re upset or feel the need to nurture ourselves. Examples of these… anything chocolate, ice cream, donuts, cookies, chips loaded with our favorite dip… you get the picture!! So let’s learn our 10 Commandments to get you on the fast track to a healthier menopause.

Rule #1
Thou shalt not even try and eliminate all decadent treats from your diet… at least not all at once.

Besides, that’s too harsh a step for most of us. Think about it, if we are eating certain foods to nurture ourselves, and then suddenly yank them away, all those parts inside us we’re trying to nurture are going to rebel. And I don’t have to tell you what that leads to – obsessing about food, binging and guilt. Removing the junk food is not meant to be a punishment and shouldn’t be viewed that way. Always remember, you’re doing this to enhance your life and energize your body.

The strategy should be to gradually cut down on the amount you eat. Eat two cookies instead of ten. Eat one-fourth of a bag of chips instead of the whole bag. Eat one bowl of ice cream instead of the entire carton!!

Begin to think of those foods as occasional treats rather than daily sustenance while you find more effective ways to nurture your body and soul. And remember: It takes less time to avoid eating extra calories than to burn them off!!

Also, there are often numerous unresolved emotional issues that play themselves out in the form of emotional eating. Should you recognize this behavior in yourself, please, make every effort to seek out appropriate counseling. These unresolved emotional matters are often at the root of unhealthy eating habits.

Lastly, stop weighing yourself (this was hard for me) and use your dress size as your gauge.

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There is a considerable amount of controversy surrounding the use of Monosodium Glutamate in the foods that we eat. Initially, MSG was classified by the Food and Drug Administration as ’safe’. However, speculation surrounding its potential harmful side effects has been mounting. MSG consumption has led to a variety of reported claims including severe headache, diarrhea, fatigue, numbness in the back of the neck, tingling, heat and pressure in the face, thirst, weakness in the upper back and neck, chest pain, headache, elevated heart rate and difficulty breathing. Once termed ‘Chinese Restaurant Syndrome’, the truth is that this hidden menace exists in a majority of the items on the grocery store shelves.

What is MSG? MSG is a substance that is formally categorized as an excitotoxin, which is a chemical that causes brain cells to become overexcited and fire uncontrollably. It is added to food by manufacturers as a cheap way to make bland inadequate foods taste better for the consumer. It saves the food industry vast amounts of money to process this way.

The ‘G’ in MSG stands for glutamate. Many flavorful foods are naturally high in glutamate such as cheese, mushrooms and tomatoes. MSG, on the other hand, is processed. It’s the sodium salt of the amino acid, glutamic acid, and is a different form of glutamate than that which occurs in the foods mentioned above.

Research indicates that MSG and other excitotoxins, such as the commonly used sweetener, aspartame, have the potential for inflicting permanent damage on a growing brain and nervous system and even kill brain cells.

The federal government, however, has aided the food industry by allowing differing levels of MSG to be labeled under other names, in effect to hide its presence in what we buy. One of our greatest weapons against MSG is to read the labels with caution. Take the following list with you to the grocery store to aid you in your choices. The list is, sadly, not all inclusive.

Additives that always contain MSG include:

• Monosodium Glutamate
• Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (eg. corn protein, pea protein)
• Hydrolyzed Protein
• Hydrolyzed Plant Protein
• Plant Protein Extract
• Sodium Caseinate
• Calcium Caseinate
• Yeast Extract
• Textured Protein
• Autolyzed Yeast
• Hydrolyzed Oat Flour

Additives that frequently contain MSG or may contain it include:

• Malt extract
• Bouillon
• Broth
• Stock
• Flavoring
• Natural Flavoring/flavors
• Natural Beef or Chicken Flavoring
• Seasoning
• Spices
• Carrageenan
• Enzymes
• Soy Protein Concentrate
• Soy Protein Isolate
• Whey Protein Concentrate

Also please be aware that just because a product is labeled ‘NO MSG’ or is sitting in the organic section of the store does not make it MSG-free. You must read the labels just as carefully.

Processed foods are the culprits: crackers, chips, soups, instant rice/potatoes/pastas, meal ‘helpers’, even baby foods, contain increased amounts and the list goes on and on.

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• Are you ready to create optimum wellness and vibrant health?! Ready to feel strong and alive? Then it’s time to get in touch with Jill Redfern at Women’s Health Advantage to assist you in creating your best life ever! Jill can guide you in any dietary, digestion, and nutritional issues and help you get going with vibrant health TODAY! After all, if not now… when?

Jill Redfern is a registered nurse in the Valencia area with 30 years of experience in both traditional and alternative medicine and a pioneer in the field of women’s alternative health and enzyme therapy.