Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D. earned his advanced degree in experimental psychology from Brigham Young University. His specialized area was psychopharmacology, with related studies in biochemistry, neurology, anatomy and physiology. His interest in medicinal botany began while in graduate school and his dissertation reflected that interest. Over the next several years his research in this area lead to the publications of several books, among which are: Herbal Tonic Therapies, The Scientific Validation of Herbal Medicine, Guaranteed Potency Herbs: Next Generation Herbal Medicine, and Fat Management: The Thermogenic Factor

ANTHONY: Well, Dan, as we are encouraging everyone who listens to this to read your book, "Herbal Tonic Therapies," maybe you could recap, as you did in the book, the last and the most important 10 properties of such a Whole Body Tonic.

DR. MOWREY: Well, you know Anthony, when I was writing the book, "Herbal Tonic Therapies," I had in mind what I called the "Holy Grail of all herbal tonics." While the book is divided into chapters based on body systems and is easy to organize groups of tonic herbs based on those body systems, in the back of my mind was always the concept of could you create a product that was designed for the whole body, for every body system, that was reasonably priced. That is a big issue because a lot of these herbs are not cheap as you know, and the processing is not cheap, and putting them together in the right combinations is difficult and time consuming and again expensive. So, I toyed around with that.

In the last chapter of the book I got around to laying out what I thought the Whole Body Tonic had to do. These where 10 things that if you're going to have something you’re going to call a Whole Body Tonic rather than just an immune tonic or cardiovascular tonic or a digestive tonic, a Whole Body Tonic had to have these 10 things. So I can go over them fairly quickly.

I think that the first thing they have to be able to do is, of course, restore and maintain balance, homeostasis, throughout all of the body systems. You can't leave one out. They all have to be there if it's going to be a Whole Body Tonic.

Secondly, they have to be able to increase energy through normal metabolic means, not artificially. This can't be an artificial stimulant effect like you might get from caffeine or something like that. This has to be a normal enhancement of metabolic energy.

Third, they have to increase our general, overall resistance to infections of all kinds and they have to do that by enhancing the tonic property of the immune system. The immune system has to be in perfect balance.

Fourth, they have to be able to decrease the effects of stress and anxiety on our ability to perform and our ability to rest and sleep. I don't want people taking one herb to put them to sleep, another herb to wake them up in the morning. I don't want them to have to resort to artificial drugs for reducing stress and anxiety. The herbs have to do all of that.

Fifth, they have to be able to protect from free-radical damage. And that just means they have to have good antioxidant activity. I think most of your listeners are familiar with that concept.

The sixth thing is they have to increase the body's ability to build muscle and/or lose weight through the burning of calories. So we are improving the body's ability to utilize the dietary calories that we consume each and every day.

Another thing they have to be able to do is regulate digestion processes and balance them and be able, in the process, to keep all of the organs and glands that are part of that system in balance. They have to be able to prevent such things as simple indigestion or ulcers. They have to be able to lower cholesterol and so forth.

In addition to that, another principal is the ability to strengthen the heart: to reduce cholesterol, blood pressure; to keep the blood’s ability to clot in balance, so it isn't too much or too little. In other words, they have to keep the cardiovascular system in good health and that is a big issue and very difficult for drugs to do. Almost impossible for drugs to do, let's be honest about it, and there are very few herbs that can do that over the course of a person’s life. But tonic herbs have that ability.

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Another thing they have to be able to do is target the liver, the kidneys, and other glands related to this blood- purifying concept we talked about earlier; to target those glands and keep them in optimum health so that they can do their job the way that they are designed to do and therefore reduce significantly the exposure to stressful toxins and pollutants in our atmosphere and food and so forth.

Finally, we have to address the lower bowel. This is a difficult thing to address for any substance and it's one in which you would not picture a tonic being very helpful. Typically, we just want our bowels to run more if we are constipated or run less if we have diarrhea and it is hard to imagine something that would fight both of those tendencies at once, but in fact, there are tonic herbs that do that and they do it very well.

So, those are the principals that a Whole Body Tonic has to be able to do, and from what I have seen of JC Tonic^®, we are talking about something here that for decades has been able to offer that to people who are willing and ready to consume it. Again, I distilled this from years of research and was I surprised to find out that here was a guy, your father, who managed to do this decades ago. Well, I am glad he did and I am glad there is somebody out there who's been able to understand the tonic concept and put it into some kind of practical application that people can take advantage of. I think that's just exciting, and I hope all you people understand how precious and how valuable this particular product it.

ANTHONY: Well, folks, you heard it from the expert! I understand, Dan, that you also are using JC Tonic.

DR. MOWREY: Absolutely! Of course! I use JC Tonic everyday and so does my family. They love it. Why not? I mean you have to practice what you preach. I have been preaching the tonic concept for several years and so I'd be a fool not to be using JC Tonic.

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