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When diet is right, medicine is of no need

when diet is wrong, medicine is of no use.

- Ayurvedic Proverb -

cultured foods

Homemade fermented yogurt and gelatin broth have been lifesavers
- Kristine G, Boulder CO  (SIBO and candida sufferer)

Healthy Inner terrain

Dysbiosis:  Impaired microbiota

There is a growing body of scientific evidence to suggest that gut dysbiosis (microbial imbalance of the intestine) is associated with inflammatory and immune-mediated diseases (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease and asthma). Regular consumption of fermented foods (e.g., kimchi, kefir, etc.) may represent a potential avenue to counter the proinflammatory effects of gut dysbiosis."
- Does Consumption of Fermented Foods Modify the Human Gut Microbiota?

Toxins and deficiencies injure cellular health.
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We are exposed to toxins and fungus in food, water, air, cigarettes, alcohol, medications, vaccines, household cleaners, and skincare products.

Cleanse the inner terrain, detox and heal.

Fermented foods, probiotics, enzymes, vitamins, minerals, collagen, protein, carbohydrates, fats & oils support the inner climate.

Correct the inner environment and you'll automatically correct the outer environment."

What Really Makes You Ill?

Hundreds of toxins in our food, water and air?
Nutrient deficits?
​Junk food?

...there are only 2 causes of disease: deficiency and toxicity."
-  The Misconception Called Virus, Dr. Stefan Lanka

It is estimated that 25% of the world’s crops, including many basic foods, are contaminated by mycotoxin-producing fungi."
- Mycotoxins, Science Direct

Orthodox medicine is well aware that it is bacterial toxins more than the bacteria themselves (they feed in us), that cause the symptoms referred to as infectious disease."
- Second Thoughts About Viruses, Dr. Robert O. Young

Vitamin D
The Sunshine Vitamin

Vitamin D - The sunshine vitamin
​Why do we need it? (click to open)

• Works in a team.
• Role of Vitamin D.
• Calcium is a vital mineral.
• Deficiencies contribute to many diseases.
• Dangers of excess Vitamin D.​

works in a team

Vitamin D works in a team with other cofactors, like Vitamin A, Price Factor, omega-3, calcium, magnesium and phosphorous.

Vitamin A and the X-Factor help protect from Vitamin D toxicity, plus make Vitamin D more effective and improve mineral absorption.

Cod liver oil provides many of these teammates.

Role of Vitamin D

Vitamin D's role in the body is to regulate calcium.  

Without sufficient Vitamin D, Calcium is deposited in places we don't want, like kidney stones or bone spurs, rather than teeth and bones, where we want it.

Calcium

Calcium is necessary for bones and teeth health, is an important electrolyte, and also helps support our immune system.

Deficiencies

...association of vitamin D deficiency with a myriad of acute and chronic illnesses including preeclampsia, childhood dental caries, periodontitis, autoimmune disorders, infectious diseases, cardiovascular disease, deadly cancers, type 2 diabetes and neurological disorders. 
-  The vitamin D deficiency pandemic

 patients with lower vitamin D levels were more likely to fall, and to experience sleep problems, depression, and anxiety.
-  Low vitamin D levels linked to non-motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease

Low vitamin D levels are now linked to respiratory infections and may increase susceptibility to influenza
- Coronavirus and the Sun: a Lesson from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Dangers

​Excess vitamin D can lead to toxic hypercalcemia.   ​See here.
High levels of Vitamin D are used in rat poison! 
There's more to Vitamin D than simply taking a Vitamin D supplement.
​Besides sunlight, food sources are the safest form of vitamin D.

Besides sunlight exposure, some foods naturally provide vitamin D and cholesterol sulfate, and these can be very important for people living in northern latitudes.
- Sunlight and Vitamin D: They’re Not the Same Thing

It is possible to starve for minerals that are abundant in the foods eaten because they cannot be utilized without an adequate quantity of the fat-soluble activators. 
- Dr. Weston A. Price, DDS

Electrolytes

Electrolytes are necessary for proper electrical energy in the body.
The heart is electrical.  The brain is electrical.  The body is electrical.

The four main electrolytes work in pairs

Calcium & Magnesium
Sodium & Potassium

Other minerals also are important
​Phosphorus, sulfur, chloride, copper, zinc, iron, selenium, iodine, boron, chromium, molybdenum, and dozens of others. 




​(Read Mineral Primer)

​Boost Your Electrolytes​
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Adrenal Cocktail recipe:
Coconut water or orange juice.
1/2 teaspoon of cream of tartar or No Salt for potassium
10-15 drops of sea minerals for magnesium and over 70 trace minerals
Dash of real sea salt for sodium and trace minerals
Teaspoon of Acerola powder, Amla or other whole-food vitamin C (not ascorbic acid)

​Why Cod liver oil?

Provides
​Fat Soluble Activators and Omega-3 fatty acids



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• Boosts mineral absorption
• Aids digestion
• ​Enhances water soluble vitamins​

​(Read Vitamin Primer)

​I use Green Pasture Fermented Cod Liver Oil
​#1 Recommended Brand by WAPF

Green Pasture ® Fermented Cod Liver Oil with Concentrated Butter Oil

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​Dr. Weston A. Price, DDS discovered that people are starving for minerals due to inadequate supply of the fat soluble vitamins.

​​THE BIG TAKEAWAY

=>  Minerals ARE NOT EFFECTIVELY ABSORBED without the FAT SOLUBLE VITAMINS  <=





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A majority of our medical problems would clear up very quickly if the populace would return to eating liver and embrace the use of cod liver oil - our finest superfoods"
- Weston A. Price Foundation

Ancestral Supplements

clean coffee

Trace Minerals

Light Therapy

"All disease begins in the gut"

- Hippocrates -

"Kumbucha Fizz"
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Creme Fraiche Starter

The overuse of antibiotics has led to the selection of resistant opportunistic pathogens which have accumulated to an alarmingly level in the human body, loss of basic physiological equilibria, strongly influencing the immune system, and is believed to be the promoter of long-term diseases (ref)

How To Restore Digestive Health
by Jordan Rubin

Key to recovery is cod liver oil which is not only high in special anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids but also fat-soluble vitamins A and D.

Both of these nutrients help fight inflammation and build the immune system, so critical to restoring digestive health, especially in persons with inflammatory bowel disease.

- Jordin Rubin

Optimize Your Gut Health

Wise Traditions Podcast

Functional Medical Practitioner and author Dr. Michael Ruscio

Walking on the Wild Side
​
Wise Traditions Podcast with Monica Ford

"Today, we take a walk on the wild side as we explore the beauty and benefits of wild fermentation–along with the bacteria and enzymes that come along with it. Monica Ford, ancestral cuisine educator and the founder of Real Food Devotee, explains in a lively way why fermented foods are fabulous and absolutely essential for good health and a strong microbiome."

"Three Sisters"
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 What is a nutrient dense diet?

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Nutrient dense foods are those that give you a lot of nutrients, vitamins and minerals, without necessarily a lot of calories.

For example, cod liver oil is one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet.  We only need a small amount per day yet it provides a significant portion of vitamins A & D and more.

Did you know that organ meats and fish eggs have
10x-100x levels of vitamins than muscle meats?

Carrot soup topped with yogurt

Get out and do the things that make life worth living!

When Dr. Price analyzed the foods used by isolated primitive peoples, he found that they provided at least four times the water-soluble vitamins, calcium and other minerals, and at least ten times the fat soluble vitamins from animal foods such as butter, fish, eggs, shellfish and organ meats.

Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation

Butter Is Better

Free Download: Butter is Better

​Cholesterol
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Why do we need it?

Very important to have enough cholesterol for hormone production, production of bile salts, healing and repair, protection against cancer.  For men under 60, no additional risk for heart disease with cholesterol levels up to 300 mg/dl.  For women at any age, and for men over 60, higher cholesterol levels are associated with longevity; no need for these groups to reduce cholesterol levels even if very high."

- Differences between Weston A. Price and Paleo diets

Vitamin D and hormones are manufactured from cholesterol

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Other food sources of Vitamin D and cholesterol:

• Local pasture raised liver and organ meats
• Canned cod liver
• Seafood like shrimp, lobster, fish eggs, oysters, mussels
• Pork lard, animal fats, butter, pastured eggs
• "Bizarre foods" like menudo, tripe, sweetbread
• Local raw dairy, homemade kefir, cheeses, sour cream

Fish should swim three times; once in the ocean, once in olive oil, and once in wine.
- Croatian Proverb

Find Nutrient Dense foods in your area

Gelatin, bone & vegetable broths

Make a warm bowl of gelatin soup with ghee and veggies

Detox and Heal

• Nourish your belly with gelatin/collagen, marrow bone and veggie broths

• Base for soups, sauces, gravy
• Connect to local sources
• Use chicken feet, oxtail, neck bones, knuckle bones, and marrow-rich bones

The Heal Your Gut Cookbook 

created by GAPS Diet experts Hilary Boynton and Mary G. Brackett
to help heal your gut and to manage the illnesses that stem from it.

Heal Your Gut Coobook

Nourishing Fats & Oils

Rendered Tallow & more

Besides nourishing fats like butter, coconut oil, palm oil, goose and duck fats, and certain other vegetable oils, I like to render my own cooking oils from suet of locally sourced grass-fed beef or fat from local pasture raised pork. 

We need natural fatty acids like stearic and palmitic, for example, two saturated fats.  ​Animal fats also contain natural vitamin D.  These fatty acids are often demonized by the "politically correct" nutritionists.  Low-fat diet recommendations can be very harmful, especially for children and pregnant mothers.  Around 50% of calories should come from fats.

Modern vegetable oils are often rancid, sit in clear plastic bottles on store shelves for months, and contribute to heart disease.  Polyunsaturated fats, like corn oil and cottonseed oil, might be one of the biggest contributors to arterial disease.

Beware of many olive and avocado oils.  Many of them have been found to be cut with cheaper vegetable oils. 

I trust Healthy Traditions olive and coconut oils. 
(I do NOT receive any monetary benefit from this endorsement)

(Read Nourishing Traditions section on Fats for more info)

Estate-bottled Chilean Extra Virgin Olive Oil, glyphosate tested

Dairy

"But I can't do dairy"

Do you believe you can't tolerate dairy?

It's true, some people just can't consume dairy, because perhaps due to a compromised gut, like leaky gut syndrome.  The proteins may get into the blood and cause an auto-immune response.  Healing the gut first may be required.  

Some people have found that pasture-raised grass-fed, raw and cultured dairy helps them heal their gut issue, such as Crohn's. 

Good dairy is a good source of calcium, butterfat, vitamins, Vitamin D, probiotics and other minerals.  Raw milk contains an anti-inflammatory nutrient and immuno-factors.

Beneficial gut bacteria thrive with lactose.  Humans are mammals, after all.  Some people claim that animals are weaned from milk at an early age and so they claim we shouldn't drink milk as adults.  That's an oversimplification.  Dairy is consumed world-wide, such as in many countries where it's one of their main sources of food.  Trying telling the Swiss they shouldn't drink milk and make cheese.

Lactase enzyme is needed to digest lactose sugars, so that's why many people have trouble with pasteurized milk.  Lactase is destroyed in the process.  

Getting lactase enzyme back into the milk is important for good digestion.

Raw and cultured dairy contain lactase, the enzyme needed to help digest lactose.

​Raw or cultured grass-fed, pasture raised dairy is generally more healthful and digestible than most pasteurized store milk.

Raw and aged cheeses are also recommended in place of processed.

Best milk is generally local grass-fed/pasture raised.  

Some grocery stores sell non-homogenized creamy top milk and grass-fed, but is pasteurized.  Kalona Supernatural is available in some health-food stores.  This can be cultured into homemade yogurt or milk kefir to bring it back to life.

For creamers, use real cream.  There's no lactose in cream, if you have trouble with lactose.  Avoid half-and-half because it contains lactose.  I use half-and-half in my yogurt to thicken it and add flavor, or I simply use full cream, like Horizon Organic, Organic Valley or Kalona.

​Goat milk protein is easier on some people than cow milk.

Much dairy has been found to contain fungal toxins from grains and hay that have turned moldy.  This may be another irritant for many people and can be very harmful to health.

I like local, pasture-raised raw milk the best.  Know your farmer.

(Read Nourishing Traditions section on Milk for more info)

Grass-fed milk contains many excellent nutrients

"The devil is not in the milk…it is in cow feed and the processing of the milk.  Go with science and your human experience."  

​—Mark McAfee

If you are not comfortable drinking raw milk, you can low-heat pasteurize it and then culture it as yogurt or kefir. 

Cultured dairy might be safer and provides beneficial probiotics.

Find Real Milk in Your Area

Supplements

Supplements can help fill in the gaps that the main diet misses.

I use whole food supplements with natural vitamins not synthetic vitamins.

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