Tips to a healthier you !

Whether facing an active health crisis, or just wanting to improve general well being, the body is it's own healer, if we stop pouring gasoline on the fire.

A cleaned up body is the foundation of good health. We often overlook the simplest of remedies, believing it is so simple and cheap, it couldn’t possibly help. Good health it does take work on our part, and is an empowering step to take.

The health recovery process can be summed up simply: 

Hydration

 Fasting

 Using a binder

 Nutrition 

Probiotics

Fasting

Fasting is a natural way to use the body’s own innate ability to detoxify and clean itself. It is a cheap, effective, and non-toxic path to help recover one’s health.

Fasting allows the intestinal tract to rest, and gives the immune and elimination system a chance to focus on clean up duty.

There are various types of fast - dry fasting, water fast, juice fast, etc. Follow whichever suits you. They all work. A 24 hour fast is good. Longer is better. Do what is most comfortable for you. No need to be miserable.

If you are having health symptoms, the body is in overdrive trying to protect itself, and is asking for your help. Cool that fire through fasting for a day or two.

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Fasting may not resolve all issues by itself, but a cleaner body is better able to protect itself, and respond to additional treatment.

 Water Fast - Dehydration is the stealthy culprit behind many health issues. A dehydrated body cannot perform even the basic function when it's crying out for a water. Drink one-half your body-weight in OUNCES of water. Add any one of the following to aid the cleansing process - apple cider vinegar, a bit of baking soda, liquid chlorophyll, fresh lemon juice, fresh lime juice, fresh ginger, raw honey,

cayenne pepper, ginger, a bit of Himalayan pink salt, etc. If you can get fresh coconut water, or packaged coconut water without additives, that is liquid gold. Drink up!

 Juice/Smoothie Fast - Some people choose to use freshly pressed juice during a fast - fruit, greens, or other vegetables are fine. Good choices are watermelon, cucumber, celery, carrots, beets, apples, grapes, pineapple, ginger, limes/lemon, etc.

Note: A juice/greens fast is best done on days off from work. There is a cleansing action that happens initially with juicing until the body adjusts, particularly with celery and beets. You may visit the restroom more often, or you may experience diarrhea. It does not mean you are sick/infected. If this happens, use small amounts of these items, or drink smaller amounts of the juice until your body adjusts.

Note: Temporarily suspend supplement intake during a fast because they must usually be taken with food, and it diverts the body’s energy from cleanup duty to breaking down and converting them into bio-available components for the body to use.

 Bone Broth/Vegetable Broth - Some people prefer to use bone broth/vegetable broth loaded up with celery, garlic, onions, and horseradish for their fast. There are millions of recipes online on how to make bone broth. Miso can be added to the bowl just before consuming for probiotics. DO NOT boil Miso!

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 Pure grapefruit juice can be used during a fast, and is an amazing liver cleanser. Suggested intake - one half the daily water intake in ounces, and the rest in grapefruit juice. Grapefruit juice is available at Walmart for $3, for now. Do not use Ruby Red and the additional crap it has. Grapefruit juice is not the most pleasant tasting as it is sour tasting. Not a people favorite.

 Detoxify during a fast - Liquid milk thistle, dandelion, artichoke, burdock, black radish, Chanca Piedra, etc. Can be added to a little water/juice.

 Binders - Take a binder to help bind up and remove toxic stuff from the body. When using binders the guideline is - take on an empty stomach at least 2 hours before/2 hours after consuming a meal, juice, or broth. Binders to use - eat lots of fresh apples daily, diatomaceous earth, activated charcoal, bentonite clay, etc.

Note: It’s important to drink lots of water to prevent constipation.

Breakdown toxic buildup

There will often be a buildup of undigested proteins, gluten fragments, pathogens, dead cells, scar tissue in the body. An effective way to break down, dissolve, and expel this toxic stuff is to use enzymes.

 Serrapeptase, Nattokinase, Lumbrokinase, Bromelain, or Papain taken on empty stomach are all good at dissolving and removing unwanted matter.

 Sunshine - If you live in an area with sunshine, appreciate the gift you have. Go outside into the sunshine, in modest but minimal clothing. Allow the sun to bathe and regenerate your body with life saving Vitamin D.

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AT THE END OF THE FAST

There are many things you cannot control. Whatever you are putting in your mouth is serving as fire kindle for your health issues, and your food is definitely within your control.

During the fast, take a critical look at diet. Remove anything processed - junk food, fast food, flours/gluten products, sugar, toxic oils and fats, sweeteners, additives, etc. With some exceptions, if it did not grow naturally on a tree or in the ground, get rid of it. (Of course in times of a famine, you would eat whatever you can get.)

What you should be left with is a relatively cleaned up diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs & spices, and organic meats/eggs/cheese. This is not a mandate. Just suggestions for cleaning up the diet. The final determination is yours to make.

Reintroduce food. Add back supplements particularly a good quality

multivitamin, Vit D3 & K2, magnesium, Iodine, Vitamin C, MSM.

(Check in with the forum for suggested supplements to address specific issues.)

Sprouts/Microgreems - These are nutrition powerhouses, and are cheap and easy to grow,

Probiotics - Increase probiotic intake by using a good quality probiotic supplement, homemade kefir, home brewed kombucha, miso, homemade yogurt, homemade kimchee, homemade sauerkraut, etc

Omega 3 - most seafood are likely contaminated with radioactive isotopes from the Fukishima meltdown, plus mercury and other contaminants. I am not convinced that seafood is a clean source of Omega 3. So a cleaner alternative might be Chia seeds.

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Digestive enzymes - with the poor nutrition in contemporary foods sources, the body is often low on enzymes for digestion. Take either a digestive enzyme with meals, or Swedish/Digestive Bitters (Warning - bitters is nasty tasting).

Cook regularly with lots of spices and good oils - onions, garlic, celery, ginger, horseradish, cayenne pepper, black pepper, curry powder, cilantro, thyme, rosemary, coconut oil, basil, parsley, tarragon, fennel, etc.

Wrapup

These measures seem too cheap and easy, so are often dismissed. But the beauty of it is, they are powerful and readily available to everyone.

Whatever you put in your mouth largely determines the state of your health. So your health condition is largely a direct result of your own actions. The good news is, you can change that dynamic whenever you choose.

Take charge of your health. Learn to your own research. Once you get the hang of it, you will find yourself relying less and less on doctors. You will assign them their proper role, that of an advisor.

Doctors have a place in emergency situations (bad accidents, arterial wounds, etc). Most health conditions are not emergencies. And most people are totally capable of reversing their health conditions. But they must put in the work. No one is/can be more interested in your health than you.

Not every remedy will work 100%. But that is no worse than what allopathic medicine offers an exponentially higher cost.

There are tons of inexpensive health and nutrition books on Amazon that are useful, plus millions of health and wellness websites. We are not lacking information. We are lacking the personal responsibility and commitment to our own health.