Let your body heal itself

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.  

 

 

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

The NHS: ‘A pressure cooker about to blow.’

 

 

The NHS is collapsing before our eyes.

There are 130,000 vacancies in the NHS and 160,000 in social care. There are 7 million people on the waiting list in the UK for routine surgery such as hip and knee replacements, and back surgery. (See NHS is on the brink of collapse warns British Medical Association - YouTube) Maybe you’re one of these people and you’re having to wait months or even years. Now is a great time for you to consider breaking free from your dependence on a crumbling system, and look for alternative ways to maintain your health.

Shortly after arriving in South Korea in 1999, I had a moment of panic when it occurred to me that I no longer had access to the NHS. What had I done in removing myself so far from such a wonderful health system? My father had worked for the NHS and so had I, twice in fact: once in personnel and once in the office of a theatre suite.

By 2009 I had come to completely review my understanding of health and medicine, and when in 2012 I was told I needed a hip replacement, I refused. I chose a different route and in seeking to help my hip, I found ways to dramatically help the rest of my body as well. (The whole story is presented in 5,000 words in my free ebook I could barely walk. Now I can run. 

I haven’t visited an MD in 10 years, and I’m not on any pharmaceuticals. In short, I’m not dependent on the NHS (although if, God forbid, I am ever in a serious car accident, I will greatly appreciate their trauma care). I have learned how to maintain a good state of health through diet, nutrition, and other lifestyle choices. I’ve also learned how to deal with minor health issues naturally, without resorting to drugs. There may soon come a time when many more people in the UK are forced to do the same because they can no longer rely on the NHS. In fact, maybe that time has already come.

To change your dependency on the medical system, you have to begin by changing your thinking. A lot of people just live their lives without giving much consideration to their health. They just wait to get sick, and when that happens, they go to the doctor and get pharmaceuticals. If one day the doctor and the drugs are no longer there, they’ll have a big problem.

The alternative is to take responsibility for your health and to maintain it. You will then be much less likely to get sick, and if you do, you don’t have to resort to drugs. There are plenty of alternatives.

To give you just one example, you may think that the wisemen’s main gift to baby Jesus was gold, and that the frankincense and myrrh were just stocking fillers. You’d be wrong. Frankincense and myrrh have wonderful medicinal properties. Just a few of these are listed in the video Why the 3 Wise Men’s frankincense and myrrh gifts are valued to this day. These include joint pain, inflammation, and digestive issues. Some researchers are even investigating the anti-cancer effects of frankincense.

Some people keep pain killers in their bags just in case. I always keep frankincense in mine. It’s the best thing I’ve found for insect bites, and it’s useful to have on hand if you meet someone in a distressed emotional state. Inhaling frankincense is excellent for settling the emotions. The last time I used it was a couple of weeks ago when I slightly pulled my back at church. I rubbed on some frankincense to ease the discomfort.

So, my advice to you is this; don’t wait for the NHS (or the medical system in your country) to collapse. Start learning how to maintain your health naturally and how to deal with health issues without the need for a doctor or a pharmaceutical.

 

Reduction in wrinkles

 

Somebody complemented me on my complexion the other day. It prompted me to see if I could compare my wrinkles pre-patches and post-patches. It seems the wrinkles beside my right eye in particular have significantly reduced. This wasn't my goal in using the stem cell activation patches, but I'm not complaining. (I'm 63.)

 

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

 

 

Cholesterol: URGENT ACTION NEEDED???

 

A few years ago in Korea, I received a medical report with huge Korean letters in bright red on the front. My Korean was basic at best. I understood that the main title said URGENT ACTION NEEDED, but I couldn’t understand the written explanation as to why I was deemed to be in great danger if I didn’t take appropriate action.

I panicked. What could possibly be the problem? My health had rocketed in the previous few years after I had changed my diet and started taking all 90 essential nutrients every day. I had been reluctant to take the medical exam because I had become sceptical about allopathic medicine, but my employer required it. I now thought maybe I had been wrong to think that way, and the exam had uncovered some terrible, life-threatening sign of disease.

In my panic, I tried to urgently find a translation for why I was in such imminent danger. I used dictionaries and called Korean friends. Eventually, I found the problem.

My cholesterol was too high.

I breathed a sigh on relief. Was that all? I determined to totally ignore my cholesterol level. Some of you may find my attitude reckless. But I already knew very well that the prevailing medical view of cholesterol was suspect.

I checked all the other results in the report and found they ranged from good to excellent. The only other problem I was warned about was that I was too fat, based on my waist size. I dismissed that on the grounds that my weight to height ratio was good, and as a western woman I was naturally shaped differently to your average Korean woman.

Having overcome the panic and digested the contents of the report, my next emotion was anger. I was furious that they would use enormous read letters to scare the life out of me. (Fear has become a common strategy of the pharmaceutical industry in persuading us to undergo medical procedures.)

We have been told for decades that cholesterol is bad and we have to lower it at all costs, even if it means taking drugs with serious side effects. Several years ago, a beloved member of my family was put on a low-cholesterol diet and that seemed to mark the beginning of a serious deterioration in health over the next few years.

One of the first doctors I heard giving an alternative view of cholesterol was Dr Joel Wallach. In the short video Dr Joel Wallach Dead Doctors Don’t Lie Cholesterol Heart Disease (see below), Dr Wallach uses humour to get his message across.

He maintains that elevated cholesterol levels do not cause disease, but rather may be a warning system pointing to other health issues.

As for cardiovascular disease, he points out that Eskimos who live above the Arctic Circle eat a traditional diet of 98% red meat and blubber (from whales, walruses, seals, bears etc.) and their cholesterol levels range from 250 to 350, yet ‘they’re legendary for not getting cardiovascular disease until they come down to the lower 48 and eat like us. Then when they get cardiovascular disease, they go back home to die above the Arctic Circle. They start eating whale blubber again, and it [the cardiovascular disease] goes away.’

In the video Lowering Cholesterol is Dangerous – Beware of These Side Effects (see below), Dr Peter Osborne states that high cholesterol doesn’t cause disease and the belief that it does is one of the biggest, most perpetuated myths in medicine today. Furthermore, recent studies have shown that ‘bad cholesterol’ (LDL) ‘. . . actually does not increase your risk of heart disease and that lowering it with statins actually does.’ He goes on to detail the side effects of statins and the harm they do to your health.

I often encourage people to improve their diet for the sake of their health. When I say that, many people assume that I’m talking about lowering cholesterol and salt. I’m not. I’m talking about getting off processed ‘food’ and getting on to real food.

The cholesterol myth is just one example of the wrong way we have been taught to think about health. It is time to realise the pharmaceutical industry is incredibly powerful and has a vested interest in persuading us to spend our lives taking their drugs.

Through lifestyle changes, you can find a better to maintain good health.

 

 

Dr Joel Wallach Dead Doctors Don't Lie Cholesterol Heart Disease

 

Lowering Cholesterol is Dangerous - Beware of These Side Effects

 

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