Let your body heal itself

Why should we as Christians take care of our health?

 

There are many reasons why we need to care for our own health – some obvious, some less obvious. These include our obligations to . . .
1. . . . ourselves, and our families and friends.
2. . . . our places of work and our societies.
3. . . . God.

The first two are self-evident. Our families and friends need us to function on a daily basis. This especially applies if we are parents and we have children who are going to be dependent on us for a very long time. When we’re sick, we put stress on others – practically, emotionally, and financially. But what about our obligation to God to stay healthy and what does the Bible say about this?

Our bodies are a gift from God. He gives them to us so that we can glorify him through our lives. Our bodies are also a spiritual battle ground. We see all the way through Scripture that Jesus brings life and healing. Satan brings death and disease. We need to cooperate with God 100% in his bid to bestow on us a healthy life. When we live a healthy lifestyle, we are aligning ourselves with God’s purposes for us. When we eat unhealthy food and engage in unhealthy life practices, we are assisting Satan in his bid to destroy our health and possibly damage our effectiveness in the Kingdom of God.

The Bible repeatedly makes it clear that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God dwells within us and he decrees heavy penalties on those who destroy his temple.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 KJV
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

1 Corinthians 6 points out that our bodies no longer belong to us. We have been bought with the precious blood of Jesus. He suffered that we might be healed (Isaiah 53:5). We are called to glorify God in our bodies as well as in our spirits.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Romans 12 commands us to present our bodies as a living sacrifice to God. It is only reasonable service to God that we should keep our bodies holy and acceptable to him. This applies morally and spiritually, but surely it also applies to living a healthy lifestyle. (See also 2 Corinthians 7:1.)

Romans 12:1 KJV
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
In Leviticus 11, God gives detailed instructions on what the Israelites could and couldn’t eat. In doing so, he shows his concern for the diet and health of his people. While it is true, we are no longer under the law, we can still consider God’s wisdom in giving these commandments. After all, it says in 1 Corinthians 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

Last but not least, God calls us to go out and heal the sick (Matthew 10:8). How are we to give away what we don’t have ourselves?

Clearly, we have a God-given obligation to take care of our bodies. That includes carefully considering our diet and lifestyle. May we honour him in all we do.

You’re eating poison. Stop it!

 

 

You wouldn’t eat poison knowingly, would you? Of course not. That would be a stupid thing to do, right? And yet, if you’re eating ultra-processed food, then you may be putting slow-acting poison into your body every day.

If you doubt what I’m saying, let’s take a look at the definitions of food and poison that come up on a Duckduckgo search and see if the food additives used in ultra-processed food can be categorised as food or poison.

FOOD

Material, usually of plant or animal origin, that contains or consists of essential body nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals, and is ingested and assimilated by an organism to produce energy, stimulate growth, and maintain life.

POISON

A substance that causes injury, illness, or death, especially by chemical means.

So, we see that . . .

• . . . food additives are chemicals. They are not directly derived from plants or animals.
• . . . food additives do not contain nutrients.
• . . . food additives do not produce energy, stimulate growth, and maintain life.
• . . . any food additives have been shown to cause injury, illness, or death.

Conclusion: Food additives are not food. They are poison, and you should stop eating them RIGHT NOW!

To see details of how some food additives may be slowly killing you, take a look at the video Top 7 Harmful Ingredients You Should Never Eat | Foods To Avoid (see below). In this video, Annette Reeder from thebiblicalnutritionist.com lists these 7 ingredients commonly found in ultra-processed food and details how they might be harming you.

1. Artificial flavours. These have been shown to contribute to neurotoxicity, organ damage, reproductive toxicity, and cancer.
2. Fractionated oils. (A.K.A. hydrogenated oils) The manufacturing process used to make fractionated oils leaves a high concentration of solid and unhealthy fat which is very toxic for humans. (For the least processed oils, try extra virgin olive oil or avocado oil.)
3. MSG. This flavour enhancer is added to persuade you to eat more than your body needs. It can contribute to migraines, seizures, obesity, ALS, Parkinson’s, and infections.
4. Potassium Benzoate (or sodium benzoate). This has been shown to damage DNA. It’s found in low-fat dressings, syrups, jams, and pickles.
5. Artificial colours. These have been linked to cancer. In particular, Green 3 is linked to bladder cancer, Yellow 6 is linked to adrenal and kidney tumours, and Red 3 is linked to thyroid cancer.
6. Acesulfame K and Sucralose. These are artificial sweeteners. Acesulfame K is linked to benign thyroid cancer (also this may be due to the methylene chloride used in the manufacturing process rather than to Acesulfame K itself).
7. Potassium Sorbate. Annette Reeder’s advice is to ‘avoid this at all costs.’ It’s found in ice cream and baked goods.

Besides these 7, Annette suggests also avoiding these foods:

• Soy lecithin. This is what makes chocolate creamy.  However, most soy these days is GMO.
• Polysorbate 80. This is a carcinogen found in some ice creams.
• Corn. Again, a lot of corn these days is GMO.
• Sodium Chloride. This is not true salt. It’s a chemical.
• Propyl Gallate. This is a preservative used in cereals.

If the above information is not enough to stop you eating ultra-processed foods, stop and think about WHY the food industry uses these ingredients. They are not concerned for your health. As Annette Reeder states: “Processed foods are created for one reason and that, besides the greed of the company, . . . they're created to create an addictive process in your body. You are being taught to eat these foods and to become addicted . . . so you can't eat just one. There's a science behind can't eat just one.”

As well as causing food addiction, these processed foods also train you NOT to like healthy food. As Annette says, “These foods that are lab experiments are created to create a sensation in your gut and in your mind so that you crave these foods. They over-sensitise your taste buds so that normal foods, broccoli, carrots, . . . celery are not going to have any good flavour for you.”

If you care about your health, go to your cupboard right now, find all the ultra-processed food in there, and throw it in the bin. Avoiding your favourite foods will be painful for a while. But as you take back control, the cravings will subside until they disappear. Your taste buds will be re-trained to appreciate good, healthy food. You will be at peace with your eating. And you’ll feel GREAT!

 

Please also see this article:  Why you are addicted to processed food 

 

Top 7 Harmful Ingredients You Should Never Eat | Foods To Avoid

 

 

Changing to a healthier lifestyle: How to make a start

 

 

Which is the best approach to health?

1. Maintain a healthy lifestyle and thereby prevent health issues and disease.
2. Just wait until you have a health problem, and then find a way to suppress the symptoms.

The majority of people would agree that number 1 is the best approach, and yet many of them still practise number 2.

Changing to a healthier lifestyle is not an easy thing to do, but here are some pointers to help you get started.

I suggest you begin by looking at your current state of health and your understanding of what it means to be healthy.

1. Are you happy with your current state of health?

To make lifestyle changes, you have to be motivated. You’re not going to make difficult changes in your life unless you really see the need for them. So, begin by asking yourself if you are happy with your current state of health. Do you have enough energy? How often do you feel under the weather? Do you get enough sleep? How often have you been sick in the last year? Do you have any aches and pains? How is your mood in general? Do you often feel cranky or depressed? Are you on medication and does that medication cause unwanted side-effects? Would you like to be able to reduce that medication (with your doctor’s help)? If you recognise the need for improvements in your health, why not take a look at your current lifestyle?

2. Who is responsible for your health?

Think about who holds the main responsibility for your health. If you think it’s the government, or the health service, or your doctor, or another healthcare professional, then you leave yourself powerless. You are totally dependent on the actions of others. If, on the other hand, you accept that you yourself hold the main responsibility for your own health, you are empowered. The ball is in your court. You can CHOOSE to be healthy.

You can also choose which treatments you undergo. It’s time to get rid of the ‘I have to’ language when talking about a doctor’s recommendation. How often do we hear people say, “I have to take these drugs,” “I have to have surgery,” “I have to have chemotherapy”? No, you don’t have to. You can CHOOSE. Your choice may be to follow the doctor’s recommendation and that, indeed, may be the best option for you. But you still have a choice. There are always other alternatives.

Take back responsibility for your health, and you will find, as Robert Scott Bell always says, the power to heal is yours.

3. Is good health just a question of luck?

If you think good health is just a question of luck or good genes, you will once again be powerless. If you accept that illness is normally caused either by not enough of something good (good food, nutrition, sleep, fresh air, exercise etc.) or by too much of something bad (bad food, toxins, stress, EMFs etc), then you are empowered. Don’t accept a state of ill-heath as being the norm. You were created to be healthy. Your body has a fantastic capacity to heal itself if you treat it well, if you give it good stuff and avoid bad stuff.

4. Is the body a collection of parts, or one whole integrated system?

So, you have a bad knee, you feel tired all the time, and your eyesight is declining. You have three problems. Or is it just one problem being expressed in three different ways. A decade ago, I started a diet and nutrition programme to help my left hip. What I found was my whole body improved from the top of my head to the tip of my toes. Our bodies are one whole integrated system. When the system breaks down, symptoms appear. Just getting rid of those symptoms will not address the deeper issues. If you succeed in suppressing one symptom, another one may well pop up somewhere else. Addressing the whole-body system is the first thing to do. After that, look at your individual health issues. If you get the whole-body system functioning optimally, you will be surprised at the improvement in different areas of your body.

So, once you are motivated to make lifestyle changes, how can you set about doing so?

1.    Diet

The first place to start when you want to improve your health is your diet. As they say in the computer industry, “garbage in, garbage out”. You simply cannot eat a terrible diet and expect to be healthy.

It’s very difficult to suddenly change your diet, especially in the UK culture where social events take place around cake and biscuits. So, let’s take a look at how you might make a start.

a)    What does your diet look like now?

What is your starting point? Take a close look.

i)     Write a food diary for a few days. Be honest. Don’t cheat. Write down everything you eat.

ii) When eating out of a packet or a tin, take a look at the list of ingredients.

How often do you see sugar in all its different forms? (See the article: Why added sugar is slow acting poison) How many ingredients do you see that you don’t recognise? Consider Dr Aseem Malhotra’s advice is ‘If your grandmother wouldn’t recognise the ingredients, don’t eat it.’  (See the article: Consultant Cardiologist says, "We're heading towards hell.")

If you can accept your diet is bad and is contributing to your ill-health, it will help motivate you to make changes.     

b)    Are you addicted to what you’re eating?

Highly-processed food can be addictive. (See the article: Why you are addicted to processed food) You may be more successful in changing your diet if you realise that doing so involves breaking an addiction. Taking a full range of supplements (vitamins and minerals etc.) can help here. It may be that your body is trying to tell you it needs calcium and you’re misinterpreting the signals as meaning you need a Jaffa Cake. If you’re under-nutrified, you will have cravings. If you’re fully nutrified, your cravings will decrease.

 Changing your diet is not easy, but you will be surprised at how rapidly doing so can contribute to a feeling of wellbeing.

2.    Other lifestyle changes

a)    Sleep

Are you getting enough sleep. Is a good night’s rest a priority for you? If not, how can you change that?

b)    Exercise

Are you getting enough exercise?

c)    Supplementation

Are you supplementing your diet with all 90 essential nutrients (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, essential fatty acids)?

In particular, are you taking minerals and trace minerals? These are vital for health and we can no longer rely on receiving them from our food because they are no longer in our soil. As the Nobel Prize winner. Linus Pauling, famously said, “You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.”

If you are already supplementing, are you doing so with good quality products? If you’re taking poor quality products, you may not be absorbing the nutrients as you should. In general, liquid products are more absorbable than capsules. When taking capsules, avoid products with filler or bulking agent listed in the ingredients.

d)    Other products for overall wellness.

There are lots of very effective natural products out there for you to investigate. I have found the stem cell activation patches enormously helpful. [Link]

e)    Natural remedies for particular health issues.

I’ve found I can deal with a lot of niggling health issues using essential oils

For example, if you’re in pain, please see this article: What I’ve learned about pain

Besides essential oils, there are a lot more natural healing modalities out there for you to explore.

f)    If possible, see a naturopathic doctor or functional medicine doctor or a good chiropractor.

If you are not happy with your current state of health, there are many things you can do to change your situation. Empower yourself by taking back responsibility for your own health and make any necessary lifestyle changes. You won’t regret it.

 

 

Top 10 reasons for not using natural healing methods.

 

 

Ten years ago, I had my first ‘miracle’. In 6 months, I went from being bent over to the left, barely able to walk, and in pain 24/7 to standing straight, walking noticeably better, and being substantially out of pain. I did it through diet and nutrition. Since that time, I have been an ‘evangelist’ for natural healing methods. I’ve told everybody I’ve met that they can improve their health through diet, nutrition, and other natural healing modalities. When I do this, I often hit a brick wall. Most people are firmly embedded in the belief that health is a question of luck, and when you get ill, your only options are drugs and surgery. Here are a few of the reasons people have given me over the years for not trying natural healing methods.

• “I don't need your natural healing modalities. God is going to heal me. Even if I try the products, I will know God healed me and not the products.”

MY RESPONSE: I really struggle to understand this logic. Are you saying that God only heals through supernatural means? How about when God healed Hezekiah through a lump of figs (Isaiah 38)?  God can heal you THROUGH the natural means that he has provided for your health. Why not try the products and pray that God will use them (the same way Christians pray for God to guide the hands of surgeons)? (I covered this idea more thoroughly here.)

• “I’d be scared to try natural medicine.”

MY RESPONSE: You’re scared to change your diet and take God-designed natural products for your health! I have a question: Do you take pharmaceutical drugs? Are you aware that they are the third leading cause of death? (See Peter C Gøtzsche: Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death) 

• “I’ve heard there’s a very small chance the product could cause damage.”

MY RESPONSE: I once heard a lovely Christian woman give me this reason for not trying a natural health product. She then went on to list the pharmaceuticals she was taking and how they had solved one problem but caused another. She could not see the irony of what she was saying. Natural products may have minor side effects (especially if, like me, you have a hyper-sensitive body). My advice to you would be to make sure you are using them properly and try them slowly at first.

• “I might get detox symptoms.”

MY RESPONSE: Yes, you might. If that happens, it will be a sign that you are clearing out harmful toxins from your body. Detoxing is a necessary part of healing. It can be uncomfortable, but there are ways to mitigate the symptoms, and the rewards can be great. Detoxing will be temporary (maybe just a few days) and will take you on further into healing. This is in contrast to side-effects from pharmaceuticals which only have a downside. (Please click here for more details on detoxing.)

• “I’ll ask my doctor [MD] first.”

MY RESPONSE: That’s a very good idea. Please always ask your doctor. But when you do, please remember that your doctor is only trained in drugs and surgery. He or she probably has little or no training in nutrition and natural healing. They may be super-intelligent, but they still don’t know what they don’t know. Furthermore, they live in a world that is financed and controlled by Big Pharma, and Big Pharma suppresses information about natural healing.

• “God told me not to try it.”

RESPONSE: I can’t and won’t argue with that. If God is really telling you not to do it, you shouldn’t do it, or at least not until he tells you to. Maybe this isn’t the right time for you. Maybe you have other things to deal with first. I would encourage anybody to pray and ask God what they should do about your health. That also includes praying about whether they should go to their doctor and take the drugs they prescribe or undergo the surgery they recommend.

• “I tried it. It didn’t work.”

MY RESPONSE: “How long did you try it for?” If the answer is a week or even a month, I would ask how long you think it took you to get sick. The answer is probably years, maybe decades. Your body has an incredible capacity to heal itself, but it takes time to undo years of damage and to rebuild. We live in a society where you take a pill and it suppresses the symptoms immediately. That’s not the same as true healing. Healing is a process. Give it time.

• “I tried it. It didn’t work, but fortunately I got better anyway.”

MY RESPONSE: Let me try to understand this. You tried the product and during that time you recovered, but you don’t attribute the recovery to the product. You think you just happened to get better at that time by coincidence. OK, that’s possible, but you might like to give it a bit more thought.

• “I tried it and I got better, but it was because of something else, not the natural products.”

MY RESPONSE: Again, that’s possible, but I have some questions. How long had you been trying the ‘something else’? Ten years? So the ‘something else’ didn’t work for 10 years, but as soon as you added the new wellbeing product, the ‘something else’ worked?  

• “I tried it and got great results. After just a week, I could walk much further and I was in much less pain. However, I can’t afford to continue.”

MY RESPONSE: I have 2 responses:

1. What are you paying for in your life that is actually damaging you health-wise or in other ways (psychologically or spiritually)? How much do you spend on coffee a day? What about those pizzas you order? Is your subscription to Netflix really necessary? Your health is of prime importance. Is there really nothing you can give up for the sake of better health?
2. Many supplements and wellbeing products are sold through MLMs (multi-level marketing companies). You might frown on that, but the fact is it gives you a fantastic opportunity. If you’re getting great results with a particular product, it is only natural that you will want to tell the world. With an MLM, through sharing your success you can build an income that pays for your own products and beyond. What can be more satisfying than helping others recover their health (and getting paid for it)?

It’s your decision whether you want to try a natural approach to healing. But please approach the question with an open mind. Try to think outside the box. Educate yourself about natural healing. Pray.

The fact is, I have yet to meet anybody who went the natural route to healing who later regretted it.  

 

 

“I don't need natural healing modalities. God is going to heal me.”

There’s a story that preachers sometimes use that goes like this: A man is stranded on a rock out at sea, the floodwaters are rising, and he’s going to drown. A rescue helicopter arrives, but the man waves it away saying, “I don’t need your help. God is going to save me.” Next a boat arrives but the man’s response is the same. Before long, the man drowns. In heaven he asks God why he didn’t save him; after all the man had put his faith in God. God replies, “I sent you a helicopter and a boat.”

Some people are like this man when it comes to their health. They’re suffering. They are in danger of drowning. They know and love Jesus, so they pray for healing. They believe he will hear them and end their suffering. However, they don’t recognise or acknowledge the ‘helicopter and boat’ God has sent them.

So, let’s look at the opportunities for good health that God has sent to those of us in the West in the 21^st century.

• Most of us have the opportunity to choose a good, healthy diet.
• Most of us have the opportunity to supplement our diet with essential nutrients such as minerals, vitamins, amino acids and essential fatty acids.
• Most of us have the choice to exercise.
• We may have the choice to get more sleep.
• We may have the choice to give up unhealthy habits.
• We have the choice to mitigate stress through prayer and Bible study.
• We have the opportunity to educate ourselves about health.
• We have access to a plethora of natural healing products and methods.

There are, of course, many wonderful examples of healing miracles in the Bible. These include a number of notable occasions where the sick person was expected to participate in their own healing and make use of natural healing substances.

In Isaiah 38, God granted Hezekiah 15 years more life. To receive this healing, he was required to put a lump of figs on the boil.

In 2 Kings 5, Naaman the leper was instructed by Elisha to go dip in the Jordan River seven times. At first Naaman refused, saying the rivers in his own country were better than the Jordan. In the end he relented, did as the prophet instructed, and was healed. (The Jordan is replete with healing minerals.)

In a similar incident in John 9, Jesus tells the blind man to go wash in the pool of Siloam.

In Mark 5, Jesus raises a 12-year-old girl from the dead. He then instructs that ‘something should be given her to eat’. Jesus could have just nourished her supernaturally (after all, he’d just raised her from the dead), but he chose to use normal food as a healing resource.

So, pray for your healing. Put your faith in Jesus, the true healer. And while you do that, take a look around at the healing opportunities God has provided for you. Don’t be like the drowning man who failed to see God’s provision of a helicopter and a boat. Open your eyes and see what God has provided for your health.

Consultant cardiologist says, “We’re heading towards hell.”

 

 

“The current trajectory we’re going down with all this misinformation is one towards oblivion. I mean, ultimately, truth is what’s going to redeem the world from hell. We’re heading towards hell.”

These comments were made by consultant cardiologist Aseem Malhotra while discussing the corporate capture of the health industry and Big Pharma’s control of mainstream media. The full interview with Del Bigtree can be seen here. Dr Malhotra has been speaking out for several years about the overmedication of our society, especially when it comes to statin drugs. He has appeared on television several times. However, when the Covid ‘vaccines’ were released at the end of 2020, he initially toed the party line. He was among the first to take two shots of the Pfizer ‘vaccine’ and he appeared on Good Morning, Britain to tell the world they were safe and effective.

Later, evidence on benefits and harms started to come in and Dr Malhotra says that what he found was ‘really quite shocking’ and he felt a responsibility to get this information out to the public and policy makers, to suspend the roll out of the mRNA technology.

Then tragedy stuck. In July 2021, 6 months after receiving the second dose of the Pfizer ‘vaccine’, Dr Malhotra’s 73-year-old father suffered a ‘shocking, unexplained, sudden cardiac death’. His father was a GP (General Practitioner) who was in good health and living a healthy lifestyle. There had been no previous indications of heart trouble, and Dr Malhotra says the autopsy results did not make sense to him at all. There were several blockages in two arteries that he just couldn’t explain.

Dr Malhotra did not immediately think his father’s demise had been caused by the Covid ‘vaccine’. In fact, when somebody speculated on the doctor’s Twitter feed that the ‘vaccine’ was responsible, he treated that person as a troll and blocked them.  However, a few months later it became very clear to him that the mRNA technology accelerates coronary heart disease and that his father’s death was ‘almost certainly’ caused by the ‘vaccine’. Dr Malhotra now goes as far as to say that ‘Anything and everything that can go wrong with the heart is triggered or can be caused by the vaccine.’

In June 2022, Dr Malhotra published a paper in two parts called Curing the pandemic of misinformation on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines through real evidence-based medicine.  In it he shows evidence that the Covid ‘vaccines’ are doing far more harm than good. You are more likely to suffer a serious adverse event from taking the ‘vaccine’ (such as disability, a life-changing event, and/or hospitalisation) than you are to be hospitalised with Covid. (See the paper: Serious Adverse Events of Special Interest Following mRNA Vaccination in Randomized Trials) In the first couple of months of the Covid trials, 1 in 800 people suffered a serious adverse event. (This is the rate for the healthy people chosen for the trial. The rate in the general population would be expected to be much higher.) On the other hand, in the over 80 age group (the highest risk group for Covid) 7,300 people need to be vaccinated to prevent one Covid death. (See How many injections prevent on Covid death?) Whilst Dr Malhotra has been attacked personally for publishing this paper, the facts stated in the paper are not disputed and have not been rebutted.

Dr Malhotra’s assessment of the current state of the health industry is that the problems go far beyond the Covid ‘vaccine’ and that ‘Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked by powerful vested interests.’ Therefore, the only solution is to fix the entire system.

In the current system, drug companies are not only allowed to develop drugs but also to test them themselves and then hold on to the raw data (as with the Covid ‘vaccines’). Regulatory agencies and governments are taking money from Pharma. The FDA gets most of its funding from Pharma. In the U.S.A., political parties receive money from Pharma. In the UK, the MHRA (The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) gets 86% of its funding from Pharma. Independent scientists are not being allowed to influence decision making. And according to Dr Malhotra, ‘Much, if not most, published research is not reliable, offers no benefit to patients, and therefore is not useful to decision makers.’

In the interview, Del Bigtree points out that the pharmaceutical industry loses court cases for billions of dollars every year for having lied about safety and efficacy over and over again. He says that, if we do not curtail their current power and we allow them to continue pushing out products without proper safety testing (especially with ‘vaccines’ that can be injected into every human being on earth), then we won’t have long to live as a species.

These comments are what prompted the quote given at the top of this article. Dr Malhotra says we are heading towards hell if we do not succeed in getting out the truth about Pharma’s control of the health industry.

In addressing the current health crisis, Dr Malhotra points out that there are simple ways to improve our health through lifestyle choices. In the west, we are seriously overmedicated, but ‘You can’t fix lifestyle and social problems with pills.’ However, just one month of dietary changes can have a very positive effect. The biggest problem is ultra-processed food (See article: Why you are addicted to processed food. Dr Malhotra’s advice is ‘If your grandmother wouldn’t recognise the ingredients, don’t eat it.’ He also advocates moderate exercise, 7 hours sleep per night, and stress management. Dr Malhotra also sometimes prescribes hugs for his patients — 10 x 20-second hugs a day.

Our current health system is leading us to disaster, but we have the power to change that system through educating ourselves and speaking out about the dangers of allowing a corrupt and powerful industry, run for profit, to dictate our health policies. We also have the power to take responsibility for our own health through health lifestyle choices.  

 

 

Drink lots of water (but not too much)

 

Our bodies are 60-70% water, and therefore we need to consider water as an essential nutrient. Becoming dehydrated can cause all sorts of problems. However, it’s also possible to drink too much water. So, how much water should we drink, and what types of water filters should we use?

In the days when it was extremely difficult for me to get moving in the mornings, I got into the habit of drinking 3 glasses of water first thing. This was essential for me at that time, and I’ve stayed in the habit of drinking lots of water. However, when researching for this article, I discovered that I’ve been drinking too much water, and it’s been contributing to my ongoing sleep problems.

Water has a number of important functions in the body.

• It’s essential for good blood flow. If you get dehydrated, your blood gets thicker and your blood pressure increases. The pressure on your heart increases and your blood becomes less efficient at delivering vital nutrients.
• Water helps digestion because it helps to break food down in the digestive system. This helps to avoid constipation.
• Water helps respiration because it is a lubricant in the lungs.
• Water helps with mobility and joint lubrication. Muscles are about 80% water.

So, how much water should we drink? We are normally advised to drink 8 glasses a day. However, this may be too much for some people and not enough for others.

There are early signs you can look out for to see if you’re not drinking enough water and you’re becoming dehydrated. These include headaches, lethargy, dry skin, muscle weakness, dizziness, and lack of focus.

When considering whether you are drinking the right amount of water, you need to bear the following in mind:

• How much you sweat. If you sweat a lot, you need more water.
• Your size. The bigger you are, the more water you need.
• How much you exercise. If you exercise a lot, you need more water.
• Your diet. Processed foods are largely dehydrated. However, fresh food such as fruit, vegetables, and meat will contribute a lot to your overall water intake. (This was my mistake. When deciding how much water to drink, I didn’t take into account how much water I was getting from my diet.)
• Your thirst mechanism. You need to listen carefully to your body because it will tell you when you need more water.
• How many times you’re urinating a day. 6-8 times is usually enough. 8-12 times is probably too much. However, when considering your urination rate, you also need to consider whether you are drinking diuretics such as caffeine.

It’s important to consider how much water you’re drinking, but it’s also important to make sure the water you’re drinking is clean.

In the video Water Filtration – which type of filter is right for you? (see below), Dr Peter Osborne looks at the various different types of filters, especially in regards to their ability to pull fluoride from the water. In summary, he recommends the following:

• A whole house water filtration system using GAC (Granular Activated Carbon) and KDF (Kinetic Degradation Filters). A whole house system is necessary because the chemicals in tap water can be absorbed through the skin when showering. This kind of system will purify the water to a certain extent, but it won’t pull out fluoride.
• A RO (Reverse Osmosis) filter in the kitchen for drinking and cooking. This will take out fluoride. However, it also takes minerals out of the water and therefore electrolytes will have to be added back in before drinking.

Bottled water is not a good alternative. When tested, a lot of bottled water turns out to be no better than tap water. Furthermore, the plastic from the bottles leaches into the water (even if the bottle is labelled BPA free) and can reduce immune function and act as a chemical oestrogen. (Water bottled in glass may be OK.)

Drinking the right amount of the right kind of water can have a huge effect on our health. And it’s such a simple and basic thing to do. So, the next time you have a headache, tryi just drinking a glass of water before you reach for the pain-killers. You may simply be dehydrated.

 

 

The Importance of Water

 

How much water should I drink? Is the "8 glasses" rule valid?

 

Water Filtration - which type of filter is right for you?

 

 

Your life choices are far more important than your genes.

 

 

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

The prevailing understanding of health is that bad genes cause disease and our only recourse is drugs and surgery. That is far from the truth. Our life choices and environment have an enormous effect on our health. The Bible told us thousands of years ago that even such things as ‘pleasant words’ can affect our health. And in the 21^st century, scientists are finally starting to catch up.

In the video Epigenetic transformation – you are what your grandparents ate: Pamela Peeke at TEDxLowerEastSide (see below), Pamela Peeke explains how science moved from genetics to epigenetics in 2007 through an experiment with agouti mice. The effect of the agouti gene in these mice, which made the mice obese and yellow in colour, was changed simply by feeding the pregnant mothers greens. The expression of the gene had been changed through diet.

And it’s not just diet that affects our gene expression. It’s lifestyle, habits, physical movement, laughing, positive thoughts, love etc.

As I’ve mentioned many times, I went from barely able to walk to now running, working out and dancing. I achieved this without any drugs or surgery. I’ve spoken before in this blog about the role of diet, supplementation, and stem cell activation patches in my recovery. Now let’s talk about other factors that have played a part.

I’m a Christian. Christians live in the love of God. We submit our thought lives to the word of God. We put our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and always try to remain thankful. We seek to follow God’s law and to receive his forgiveness and grace when we fall. So even when I was living in pain, disability, and daily trauma ten years ago, I still walked through it with God. In today’s world, I see plenty to make me sad, sorrowful, angry, frustrated, and afraid. But I see those things through faith, hope, love, and thankfulness in God. I’m sure this mindset has contributed to my recovery.

As a scientist who studies epigenetics, Pamela Peeke would agree that all this ‘positive thinking’ is good for my health. But we didn’t need science to tell us this. It’s all in the book of Proverbs.

Proverbs 3:7-8

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Proverbs 4:20-22

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Proverbs 13:17

A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

Proverbs 14:30

A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Proverbs 17:22

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Watching the video also made me realise that other activities I’m currently doing are contributing to my recovery more than I thought. Things like dancing, practising the piano, and singing.

Diet and nutrition are vital for health recovery but so is everything that we do in our lives. And there’s always room for improvement. I’ve been carefully watching my diet for 30 years, but after listening to the agouti mice story, I’ve ordered some kale.

 

 

Epigenetic transformation – you are what your grandparents ate: Pamela Peeke at TEDxLowerEastSide

Drugs and surgery — the downward spiral.

 

 

Ten years ago, I got off the drugs and surgery treadmill when I refused a hip replacement. I dread to think what would have happened if I hadn’t made that decision.

At the time, I was bent over to the left and couldn’t straighten up. I could barely walk, and I was in pain 24/7. I knew a hip replacement wasn’t going to solve my problems. It would only add to them, and if I took that route, I would rapidly be caught in the usual drug and surgery downward spiral. Looking back, I don’t think I would have lived very long, and if I had, I would have needed 24-hour care and lost complete control over my own health.

I thank God that never happened. Instead, I chose the diet and nutrition route. The rest, as they say, is history.

The whole world is nutritionally deficient these days, especially when it comes to the 60 essential minerals our body needs every day. These minerals are no longer in our food because they are no longer in the soil. But modern conventional medicine ignores this and only prescribes drugs and surgery. This puts already sick people on a downward spiral that only ends with their death.

This is what typically happens. You have a chronic disease that is caused by nutritional deficiencies. The doctor gives you a drug. This doesn’t address the underlying cause; it just manages the symptoms. The use of the drug causes further depletion of your limited nutritional supplies. After a few months, the drug stops working so the doctor either increases the potency or adds another drug or two. You then need even more drugs to manage the side-effects of the original drugs.

Then you need surgery. You have your first hip replacement. You now have an artificial hip and you have lost any possibility of the body healing itself. (Your body knows how to heal hips made of flesh and bone, but not those made of metal.) The hip replacement hasn’t solved the underlying nutritional deficiency, in fact the strain of the surgery has made it worse. So soon you need the other hip replaced – then a knee – then a shoulder.

While all this is happening, your nutritional reserves get lower and lower causing more and more health problems.

I chose to go another way. I changed my diet and took all 90 essential nutrients every day.

I took the nutrition to help my hip. But actually, it was months before my hip showed a significant improvement. But while I was waiting, I saw wonderful improvements in the rest of my body, from the top of my head to the tip of my toes. My other joints (knees, shoulders, fingers etc.) got looser and more comfortable. I had more energy. I felt the bones in my face regrow. My hair grew back thick and healthy. My skin stopped cracking and bleeding. My restless leg syndrome reduced. The pain reduced. The frequent urination resolved. The feeling returned in my left leg. I could bend my ankles again. There were far too many improvements for me to remember and list here.

I had found the power of medical nutrition. I had also found that you can’t just fix one part of the body (as the MDs seek to do) without fixing the whole body.

You don’t need to be on the drugs and surgery downward spiral. There are alternatives.

To give just one example, In the video Type 2 Diabetes Easily Reversed Dr Peter Glidden (see below), Dr Glidden explains what happens in the body when someone develops type 2 diabetes and how diabetes drugs lead to a downward spiral. He also explains how we have known since 1957 that the trace mineral Chromium plays a vital part in the body’s ability to process sugar.

So, you have a choice. You don’t need to be caught in the drugs and surgery downward spiral. There are natural, more effective, safer alternatives.

Take the first steps today and learn how to let your body heal itself.

 

 

Type 2 Diabetes Easily Reversed Dr Peter Glidden

 

 

Why you are addicted to processed food.

 

 

I have often had conversations like this:

Friend: Would you like to come to lunch?

Me: I’d love to come to your house, but you won’t be able to feed me.

Friend: Why not?

Me: My diet is very restricted due to food allergies and intolerances.

[I normally then have to then go into specifics to persuade this person that no matter how many hoops she’s prepared to jump through, there are still going to be problems.]

Friend: You poor thing. How awful for you!

Me: Actually, it’s a blessing.

Friend: How so?

Me: I’m not tempted to eat unhealthy food. Everybody is damaged by unhealthy food, but for most people the effects are slow so they don’t make the connection. For me, the effect is immediate. I used to have cravings and be addicted to processed food like everybody else, but now I’m free from all that. My appetite is regulated, and as long as I’m in control of my meals, I can eat good, healthy, satisfying food.

I’ve felt like this for some time. However, I’ve only recently woken up to the fact that the reason people are addicted to processed food is that the food industry plans it that way.

I found this video on YouTube: UK doctor switches to 80% ULTRA-processed food diet for 30 days BBC (see below). It’s under ten minutes, very watchable, and very informative about the processed-food-addiction trap.

In the video, a UK doctor switches from his normal 20% ultra-processed food diet to 80%. He does this for 30 and records his progress. He says the 80% ultra-processed food diet is the norm for 1 in 5 people in the UK. This is what he found:

• The ultra-processed food is hyper-palatable and it’s impossible to stop eating it once you start.
• As the weeks progressed, he felt more and more hungry and ate more and more processed food.
• He soon got constipated.
• He started waking up every morning feeling like he had a hangover.
• Then he started waking up at 4 a.m. with heartburn, a headache, and hunger pangs.

The doctor wondered what the food companies were trying to get him to taste with all the chemicals, MSG, salt and sugar. He describes one particular breakfast cereal as “an amazing bit of food engineering”.

This experiment was done under the oversight of an obesity expert. At the end of the 30 days, she went through the medical results with the doctor.

• He had gained 6.8 kg in 4 weeks.
• His hunger hormone had gone up by 30%.
• At the same time, there was a decrease in the hormone that tells the body it’s full.
• Before and after brain scans showed that the brain had made new connections. He says his body “linked up reward centres of the brain with areas that drive repetitive, automatic behaviour. So, eating processed food is something my brain simply tells me to do without me ever wanting it. Shockingly, this is something you might see in a person with addiction.”

What I wondered after watching the video (and the video didn’t tell us) was whether this doctor had problems returning to a 20% ultra-processed diet and whether he was able to shed that extra 6.8 kg.

The conclusion to this experiment is: You are addicted to processed food because the food industry planned that you would be. Just do an internet search for ‘the food industry makes food addictive’, and you will be astonished at the information you find.

Watching this video has made me rejoice even more in my food restrictions. It has also given me more sympathy for people who are unable to break their food addictions.

If you need help in this area, there are light therapy patches that reduce sugar cravings, help to regulate appetite and support fat loss. Please contact me for more information.

Please watch the video and realise you have been caught in a very clever trap laid for you by the food industry. It’s difficult but not impossible to break free from this snare. And the rewards are great.

 

 

UK doctor switches to 80% ULTRA-processed food diet for 30 days BBC