Who is managing the permissible levels of toxicity in your life? The link below will take you to an interactive list of the toxins for which California requires specific labeling beyond the established limits of the FDA. You will be surprised at the number of toxins on the list, the magnitude of their dangers and the weakness of the FDA. Don't be fooled. The Prop 65 requirements in California are still very dangerous levels of toxicity that you, as the consumer are expected to tolerate. States outside of California do not have such stringent restrictions and consumers are not warned when these lower levels of toxicity appear. A trick to protect yourself when buying products is to call the manufacturer and ask if the product comes with a Prop 65 Warning in California. It is at the least, another layer of protection. https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/proposition-65-list This recipe is from Ferment Tools and is a very simple start for making homemade sauerkraut. It's easy and takes no special equipment. It could be exactly what your body would order if it could. Why fermented foods? Your gut health depends on a balance of "good and bad" bacteria. We call the bad bacteria candida and when it controls the gut, ill health follows. Your symptoms are not just belly or bowel troubles, but they can develop into autoimmunity, malnutrition, pain, lethargy, anxiety and a range of unimaginable symptoms. Your gut health is so important, I would say never accept a diagnosis until you have cleaned your gut and are sure it is not the source of your problems. Additionally, if you have taken antibiotics, as well as many other drugs, you must provide support to the gut or expect it to be unhappy. How does a gut get sick? Your diet is the instigator of poor gut health. Candida feeds on sugars, which can include white flour and dairy. When you are constantly feeding the "bad" bacteria, the "good" bacterial becomes overpowered. Once that happens, your body begins to falter and becomes acidic which can easily be read on pH strips. Fermented foods, like sauerkraut, kombucha, kimchi, yogurt, miso and others, feed the good bacteria and keep you at your best. A Basic Sauerkraut Recipe ...One of many fermented recipes from fermentools.com
To make sauerkraut, you will need only three ingredients:
1) Make a salt water brine consisting of 1.5 tablespoons of salt to every four cups of water. (Adjust amounts proportionately.) Gently warm the water and mix in the salt until it dissolves. Using Himalayan Powder Salt makes this job easier. Let cool completely. 2) Meanwhile, chop your cabbage thinly and massage it in a bowl with your hands for a few minutes. This will soften the cabbage and allow it to release some of its own juices. 3) Pack cabbage tightly into wide-mouthed pint, quart, or half-gallon jars. Cover cabbage with the salt brine and be sure to leave about ½-1” head space at the top of the jar. 4) Use glass weights to hold down the cabbage under the brine. (This prevents spoilage through unwanted exposure to air.) Install the Fermentools lid and airlock per manufacturer instructions to allow for the release of carbon dioxide as the cabbage ferments. 5.) Leave sauerkraut at room temperature to ferment. Waiting is the hardest step! Remember to not leave sauerkraut too long in extremely warm conditions, as too much heat could cause it to spoil. Check your kraut every day or two to taste and smell its progress. Make sure to always test the kraut with clean hands and utensils. How long do you have to wait? Sauerkraut can take anywhere from 2-6 weeks to finish, depending on environment and taste preferences. Generally, kraut should be pleasantly sour and tangy, but ultimately it is finished when you think it tastes right to you. 6) Move sauerkraut to cold storage (i.e., a refrigerator or root cellar). Enjoy your sauerkraut on hot dogs, pork, sausage, or other meat, or even on top of eggs for breakfast! Remember to add it at the last moment of cooking to avoid killing the good bacteria that are part of traditionally lacto-fermented foods. Never heard of it? Most have not. If you don't understand it, you could have a hard time recovering from illness, chronic conditions, heavy metal detoxification and all disease. Glutathione is produced by your body and is responsible for detoxifying you on a daily basis. It is your master detoxifier. That may not sound important, but you are bombarded by toxins all day, everyday. It is a full-time job. Without glutathione you would not have a chance at survival. You can become sick if glutathione production falters. If you are sick, it likely has already faltered. As the demands on the detoxification systems of your body are expanded in our increasingly toxic world, the job can be overwhelming. Without the support of a proper diet and the right nutrition, your glutathione production could fall below adequate, resulting in illness. In the case of metals or other toxicity, you could find that clearing the body is a very slow process without enough glutathione. Visualize glutathione taking charge of clearing your body of the toxins you encounter everyday. That includes those you notice, those you eat, that which you willingly put on your skin and the unknowns that you don't even consider. When it glitches, think of your toxic waste being recycled instead of being cleared from your body. It is as though the pumping system for cleansing was slowed to bare minimum. That poorly operating system soon leaves the bulk of toxicity behind, increasing the body's burden and interfering with wellness. The right foods and the right exercise are the remedies. The video will give you an overview that will be enough to get you on the right track. There is a lot of childhood connected to milk. Mother's thought it was the most loving, healthful thing they could offer us and with the help of the dairy industry they were sold. We know more now, but old habits are difficult to change. We continue the practice of putting milk on the table and recoil at the thought of rice, almond or coconut milk as replacements, but the time to change is here. There is no more pretending that milk benefits are controversial. They are not. It just is not good for you. The video explains why milk fuels disease and creates the perfect environment for poor gut health. Additionally, the increased use of anti-biotics and hormones in milk producing animals makes it dangerous. Milk is an inflammatory sugar to the body which is responsible for candida, sinus conditions, ear aches, acne and disease. You now have a handful of reasons to change your habits. Remember that your dependency on milk was manufactured by the industry that markets it to you and your mom before you. Candida is the bacteria of the gut we call the “bad” bacteria, even though we need it. It easily falls out of balance with the good bacteria because of the typical diet most of us find convenient. If candida had a personality, I would call it persistent, stubborn, relentless, clever and opportunistic. It is all of those things. Candida is always ready to take control of the gut. If you fall off your mission to stay balanced, it is waiting in the wings to take charge again. It can become resistant to probiotics that are used to fight it and will do whatever it must to flourish. In my experience with candida there were many setbacks. I became tolerant of the symptoms and accepted the constant battle as part of life. It is not. What I was doing wrong was caused by being tolerant and believing that small steps would accomplish the goal. When I became clever, stubborn and persistent things changed. First of all, cutting down on the bad foods like sugar, white flour, heat processed oils, glutenous grains and dairy was not good enough. I needed to stop them. My diet shifted to primarily meat and vegetables with limited, low sugar fruits. Rice and potatoes with skins (the flesh is acidic and the skins are alkaline) were limited and some off beat grains without gluten, like quinoa, worked well. The next awakening was that my morning probiotic capsule was not enough to combat candida all day. Also, I had not realized that candida can become resistant to probiotics and that changing them regularly was important. In looking for true weaponry, I added fermented food to grow good bacteria throughout the day. That was the game changer. When fermented foods were incorporated into the diet, all things changed. This meant some weird stuff was going to have to be part of life. Probiotic yogurt, sauerkraut, kimchi, miso, kombucha and raw vinegar were added throughout the day. A salad dressing of miso and raw vinegar and oil became salad dressing while yogurt was the basis of smoothies and sauces. The change in gut health and symptoms seemed miraculous. It was not. It was simply removing the food source that allowed candida to overgrow while feeding the good bacteria. The result: A gut that functions happily without bowel issues, stomach pain, nail fungus, yeast infections, lethargy, joint pain, headaches, brain fog, weight gain and many other symptoms. In the end, my body became more agreeable to losing weight and moving without pain. I learned that if I want to eat something from the list of acidic foods I needed to balance it with probiotics and alkaline foods to stay in charge of my wellness. Note: Probiotic recipes and a home test for candida can be found on this site. Click here to download candida test
Acid in your body creates an environment that encourages disease and feeds the culprits that cause it. An alkaline body discourages disease because diseased cells cannot live comfortably in an alkaline environment. Every bite you eat is either feeding disease or fighting it. When people say “sugar feeds cancer,” they are saying that sugar is acidic and cancer cells grow heartily on sugar. When cancer cells are fed an alkaline diet they become suppressed and unable to grow. If you are eating a typical, modern diet you are in jeopardy of being acidic and inviting disease to settle down in the comfort of your sugar laden body. The way to improve your acidity is to eat the foods that balance you naturally and move you to alkalinity. The concept is fairly simple. Cut the sugar and white flour while you increase the vegetables. You can test your progress easily with pH strips held in your urine flow. The package will provide a color chart that will easily show you how you are doing in your quest to become more balanced. Don’t expect change instantly. It takes time to change the pH levels in your body. Having a neutral pH of 7 will tell you that your gut is in pretty good shape. If you are in lower numbers you run the risk of living with an imbalance of candida which brings with it a whole set of symptoms and a variety of problems. Candida is what we call the “bad” bacteria in the gut. The truth is that you need both good and bad bacteria, but when it is overgrown and in control it is very bad bacteria that causes a list of symptoms. Keeping it in check is the way to stay healthy. With a candida imbalance, which is just called “candida,” you will not only be inviting illness and disease, you could experience lethargy, joint pain, muscle pain, anxiety, IBS, skin disorders, fungal infections, sleeplessness, weight loss, weight gain and autoimmunity among other things. If you are unwell for any reason, cleaning your gut is essential to finding wellness as disease begins in the gut. If your gut is out of balance and has become sick with candida, getting it healthy is the key to getting well, no matter the illness. Left untreated, your imbalance will manifest into any number of issues including disease. Keeping the acid and alkalinity balanced is the start to all things healthy. For home candida testing instructions see: http://www.searchforthecausenotjustthecure.com/blog/candida-testing-at-home Choosing a medical professional usually starts with who your insurance provider will allow. I suggest you scrap the advice of Big Pharma and your government and do what is best for you. Your best resources may not be on that list. In any situation there is good, better and best. If you are dealing with illness, especially long-term illness, start with the best. The best is a professional who understands and has experience with your issue. If you break your leg I would not recommend herbs as a cure, but if you are dealing with the gut, heavy metals or wish to find the source of chronic conditions, I suggest you look beyond traditional Western medicine. Western Medical Doctor, MD A typical Western medical doctor has very little understanding of nutritional need and is not schooled in the practice of searching for the cause of illness. The tools of Western medicine are primarily pharmaceuticals which have highly dangerous side effects and only serve to mask symptoms rather than heal. There are areas of concern that are completely foreign to this field and very common in other arenas. Being selective about when to use this protocol is important. It's value is tremendous, but not always the right choice to find wellness. Integrative Medicine Medical Doctor, MD A Western medical doctor that is trained in integrative medicine is one that has learned to use natural healing sources instead of just pharmaceuticals. This type of training believes in using pharmaceuticals when necessary and natural methods when possible. Finding a medical doctor who practices integrative medicine and understand metal detoxification can be the perfect fit. Naturopath ND Naturopathic medicine is an ancient practice that considers the entire body when healing and not just the symptoms of a condition. They believe in the balancing of the mind, body and spirit. A four year degree and licensing is necessary in the United States. Osteopathic Medicine DO A doctor of osteopathic medicine has a 4 year undergraduate degree and a 4 year medical degree, like an MD. They function very similarly to an MD and can prescribe medications, conduct surgeries and function along the same lines. Osteopaths have extra training in musculoskeletal system which includes the muscle and bones. A DO is often more interested in alternative treatments like acupuncture, chiropractic and natural healing. Chinese Medicine Practitioner Traditional Chinese medicine includes the ancient remedies that use a combination of plant, animal and mineral resources. Combinations of herbs and healing ingredients are used to stimulate the body’s natural healing power. Students of Chinese medicine become practitioners though a number of degreed sources and can include acupuncture. Oriental Medicine Practitioner, DAOM In the United States, Oriental medicine refers to a graduate level degree that include Chinese medicine with acupuncture. The 2 year degree program offers a Doctorate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner Ayurvedic medicine is the ancient art of healing from India. It is based on holistic healing and the integration of the mind, body and spirit. In this practice, a treatment is not official until it has been used at least 5000 times. This means any treatment provided has a substantial history. Ayurvedic practitioners understand and treat the body as a whole. Chinese, Tibetan and Ayurvedic medicine share common beginnings and are infiltrating into traditional medicine professions. Homeopath Practitioner Homeopathy is a system that believes “like cures like.” Treatment offers minute doses of natural substances that in a healthy person would produce symptoms of disease. The basis is to stimulate and heal the immune system. Homeopathic methods are not ancient studies and have only been practiced for about 200 years. Acupuncturist Acupuncture is a system using fine needles to penetrate the skin to balance the body and remedy issues of health, including mental, physical and emotional healing. Acupuncture can be very helpful in reuniting and strengthening systems of the body. This treatment can easily be added to other treatments without interference. There are degree programs available and a state license is required in the United States. Nutritionist Nutritionist determine the nutrients needed to heal a body through foods and supplements. Understanding the nutritional needs of the body is vital to recovery. This is usually a 4 year degreed professional, but in some areas that is not necessary. These are the standard symptoms of fibromyalgia. If you complain of any of these issues for a few months, you become a candidate for the label declaring you have fibromyalgia. Before you accept that very casual diagnosis, know that each person has developed these symptoms for different reasons. You do not all have the same disease. In fact, fibromyalgia is not a disease. It is a collection of symptoms that have been conveniently grouped together to provide one insurance code that gets a doctor paid and leaves you living on endless pharmaceuticals. Search for the Cause, Not Just the Cure! |
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