Survival Kits

Craig Edwards Field Director with the Boy Scouts of America met with LifeCaps to receive dozens of free survival kits for distribution to some local troops around the greater Salt Lake area. To obtain the rank of Eagle Scout, the boys need to pass the test and obtain their Wilderness Survival merit badge. The fifth requirement is to put together personal survival kits and a survival pill such as LifeCaps could now be added.

Requirements for the Wilderness Survival merit badge:

1. Show that you know first aid for and how to prevent injuries or illnesses likely to occur in backcountry settings, including hypothermia, heat reactions, frostbite, dehydration, blisters, insect stings, tick bites, and snakebites.
2. From memory, list the seven priorities for survival in a backcountry or wilderness location. Explain the importance of each one with your counselor.
3. Describe ways to avoid panic and maintain a high level of morale when lost, and explain why this is important.
   1. Cold and snowy
   2. Wet (forest)
   3. Hot and dry (desert)
   4. Windy (mountains or plains)
   5. Water (ocean, lake, or river)

Describe the steps you would take to survive in the following conditions:

4. Put together a personal survival kit or survival kits and be able to explain how each item in it could be useful. (Sample Kit)
5. Using three different methods (other than matches), build and light three fires.
6. Do the following:
   1. Show five different ways to attract attention when lost.
   2. Demonstrate how to use a signal mirror.
   3. Describe from memory five ground-to-air signals and tell what they mean.
7. Improvise a natural shelter. For the purpose of this demonstration, use techniques that have little negative impact on the environment. Spend a night in your shelter.
8. Explain how to protect yourself from insects, reptiles, and bears.
9. Demonstrate three ways to treat water found in the outdoors to prepare it for drinking.
10. Show that you know the proper clothing to wear in your area on an overnight in extremely hot weather and in extremely cold weather.
11. Explain why it usually is not wise to eat edible wild plants or wildlife in a wilderness survival situation.

Daryl Stevenett Founder of LifeCaps thinks it would be a good idea for everyone, not just Boy Scouts, to learn how to stay alive in emergency situations.

It started out as a typical afternoon squirrel hunt. The three of us were students at Auburn University in Alabama, and we had taken the day off to bag a few squirrels in the nearby Tuskegee National Forest. By the end of the day, two of us sat on the fender of the car, reliving the hunt, squirrel by squirrel. It finally dawned on us that it was a long time past shooting light, and Mike, the third member of the party, had not yet returned to the car. But we didn’t worry because Mike was a highly trained and experienced in wilderness survival. He was working on his master’s degree in forest management and had just recently returned from four years of wilderness survival in the Alaskan back country.

A half hour passed, it was dark, and still no Mike. I blew the car horn three times. No response. For the next few minutes we blew the horn and shouted, stopping occasionally to listen. We were sure now that Mike was in trouble and began to ask ourselves questions. Had he shot himself accidentally? Could he have had a heart attack? Mike was a believer in emergency preparedness and was in excellent physical condition, so these possibilities seemed slight. As the reality that Mike was lost sank in, we began an organized search.

It was after midnight when we found him. A wild-looking man broke through a thicket and into the light cast by the searchers’ spotlights. It was Mike and he was scared and confused. His clothing was torn to shreds from the waist down, and his legs and arms were bloody from the scratches he had received, The.22 rifle, hunting coat and cap he had taken into the woods with him were gone where he didn’t know. We learned later that his hunting coat contained matches, extra ammunition, a pocketknife, and three squirrels, enough wilderness survival gear & food to live comfortably for many days.

Mike needed two weeks to recover fully from his brief but brutal ordeal. He recalled the panic that had struck him at dark when he realized he was lost. He remembered running for long periods of time. He also remembered feeling afraid of the strange people shouting and flashing lights in the woods. Embarrassment, guilt, confusion, and exhaustion only added to his sense of panic and helped cripple his ability to exercise good judgment. Mike, an above-average hunter and outdoors man, had come face-to-face with a wilderness survival situation and had not used his skills.

One of the first reactions to being lost or stranded in the back country is fear. It is fear that causes many people to panic soon after realizing they are in a survival situation. It was fear that made Mike run blindly and foolishly discard his equipment.

All sorts of people from the military to civilians have at one time or another searched the web for the best survival kits or maybe they are simply looking for products to include in building their own survival kit. Water of course is the first consideration.

Pack lots of Food, but a pill? Is it possible to live on a pill? LifeCaps has introduced the first survival pill. A capsule you can either chew or swallow that contains all the necessary nutrients you need to survive. The capsules comes three to a packet, breakfast, lunch and dinner. The pill curbs hunger and could come in pretty handy for wilderness survival or in the case of some emergency or disaster.

Does the LifeCaps survival pill work? Does it do what it says it will do? According to Russ Bianchi the LifeCaps formulator,

he says “It Works.” Russ has formulated hundreds of products over the years including the majority of the top selling energy and power bars on the market today. Russ says “When the body is satisfied with the nutrients it receives, it will not feel hungry and will give up it’s own stored energy or body fat to stay alive.” Could this be the next new diet pill? Some people I’m sure are using LifeCaps as a weight management tool, however it was never intended to be a diet or weight loss pill.

The idea came to Daryl Stevenett, the LifeCaps founder a few years ago. At the time there were some trapped miners underground in Utah. The search and rescue teams were drilling four-inch holes down to the miners trying to reach them. They supposedly had plenty of water but no food. Daryl thought, “Why can’t someone come up with a pill that people could live on? How hard can it be to put all the vitamins and minerals the FDA recommends as well as calories into a small pill?”

He then contacted his long time friend and formulator Russ Bianchi and asked if he could make such a thing as a survival pill. Daryl asked Russ, “What about adding a stimulant for energy?” Russ immediately said “NO WAY.” He explained that people in an emergency situation would have low blood sugar and if their system was spiked with a stimulant it could cause cardiac arrest. So no stimulants were or ever will be used in the LifeCaps product. A small amount of pure cane sugar was used which helps drive the nutrients into the blood stream within about 20 minutes or so. Anyone who has LifeCaps in their survival kits, has a much greater chance of survival in an emergency.

Since it would be impossible to include the 2,000 calories the FDA recommends into such a small pill, the body could burn its own stored energy or body fat if it needed energy. The body only gives up this reserve energy when it receives nutrients without the calories.

Severe obese people who weigh in excess of 800 pounds find it impossible to exercise to lose their weight, so what do they do? They usually end up in a hospital with their stomach stapled receiving nutrients only through an intervenes line. This solution contains very few, if any, calories which forces the body to burn its own stored energy or again, body fat. This was the idea Russ had for LifeCaps along with his understanding of the Krebs cycle of the human body.

On the LifeCaps web site you can try a free sample of LifeCaps. They do work. The LifeCaps company offers a refund if you are not satisfied with LifeCaps for any reason.

So is LifeCaps a possible solution for being prepared? You bet it is. LifeCaps is the answer to many things from the military to wilderness equipment, disaster emergency preparedness, extra emergency food supplies and even to just add to your survival kits.