Magnesium is known for many things, but probably the most popular is its ability to alleviate constipation. Magnesium does a lot more than help you when you’re stopped up. It’s a co-factor in over 300 enzymatic metabolic reactions, which means your body needs this essential mineral. Despite it’s necessity in our bodies, most of us are chronically deficient in magnesium, only about 25% of the population gets the recommended amount of magnesium needed daily.
Boosting your daily intake of magnesium is easy, and has some wonderful benefits, including:
• Increased energy
• Improved digestion
• Relief from muscle aches and pains
• Relief from headaches
• Improved relaxation
It's always great to start by increasing food sources of magnesium. When necessary, supplementation is a great way to boost levels. Food sources of magnesium include:
• Pumpkin seeds
• Spinach
• Swiss chard
• Sesame seeds
• Quinoa
• Black beans
Magnesium deficiency can be a sign of intestinal dysbiosis and certain gut bacteria can hinder the absorption of this nutrient. Dysbiosis in the gut hinders the absorption of more than just magnesium. It’s also a key factor in deficiencies of vitamins B1, B2, B3, magnesium and zinc. When you start by addressing signs of GI stress, you will correct a foundational issue that will resolve other nutrient deficiencies.
Get your Magnesium supplement from our online store, www.HealthFromWithinSTL.com
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Eat This Daily!
COCONUT OIL!
Another reason why cancer patients NEED to eat coconut oil EVERYDAY (and you as well!).... Coconut Oil Stabilizes Blood Sugar and Insulin Levels
High blood sugar levels trigger INFLAMMATION, which is one of the underlying Causes of ALL Cancers and almost EVERY disease.
Coconut oil is a VERY healthy fat and can help control blood sugar and insulin levels...how?
Coconut oil has NO direct impact on blood sugar levels.
Coconut oil helps glucose enter your cells, slowing and reducing insulin levels in the blood and this is POWERFUL!
If you HAVE to eat carbohydrates (all carbs turn to sugar in seconds)....also eat them with Coconut Oil!
Coconut oil slows the digestive process, so it lowers the overall glycemic index of your meal. When you eat coconut oil with your meal of carbohydrates, the carbs are broken down into glucose more slowly, so blood sugar levels remain steady even after you eat!!!!
One last powerful way Coconut Oil lowers blood sugar...
Coconut oil consists of medium-chain fatty acids (MCTs) not long-chain fatty acids, which most BAD fats contain...these longer chain fatty acids decrease your cells ability to absorb blood sugar, which raises your risk of diabetes and Increases Inflammation.
What is the EASIEST way to EAT a lot of coconut oil?
I add 1-2 tablespoons of coconut oil and 1 tablespoon of MCT oil to my first smoothie of the day.
#DrNickBarnes #CoconutOilRocks #HealthyFat
Another reason why cancer patients NEED to eat coconut oil EVERYDAY (and you as well!).... Coconut Oil Stabilizes Blood Sugar and Insulin Levels
High blood sugar levels trigger INFLAMMATION, which is one of the underlying Causes of ALL Cancers and almost EVERY disease.
Coconut oil is a VERY healthy fat and can help control blood sugar and insulin levels...how?
Coconut oil has NO direct impact on blood sugar levels.
Coconut oil helps glucose enter your cells, slowing and reducing insulin levels in the blood and this is POWERFUL!
If you HAVE to eat carbohydrates (all carbs turn to sugar in seconds)....also eat them with Coconut Oil!
Coconut oil slows the digestive process, so it lowers the overall glycemic index of your meal. When you eat coconut oil with your meal of carbohydrates, the carbs are broken down into glucose more slowly, so blood sugar levels remain steady even after you eat!!!!
One last powerful way Coconut Oil lowers blood sugar...
Coconut oil consists of medium-chain fatty acids (MCTs) not long-chain fatty acids, which most BAD fats contain...these longer chain fatty acids decrease your cells ability to absorb blood sugar, which raises your risk of diabetes and Increases Inflammation.
What is the EASIEST way to EAT a lot of coconut oil?
I add 1-2 tablespoons of coconut oil and 1 tablespoon of MCT oil to my first smoothie of the day.
#DrNickBarnes #CoconutOilRocks #HealthyFat
Is Coffee Healthy?
54% of Americans over the age of 18 drink coffee on a daily basis, so how do you make this healthier?
Coffee has some nutritional qualities, but the problem is:
1. What your adding to the coffee!
2. Drinking TOO MUCH!
3. When you are drinking it!
If you are drinking the popular coffee store versions, they have tons of extra calories,
sugar or even worse - FAKE sugar.
How do you make coffee healthier?
If you love to drink it and won't give it up - do this....
1. Avoid Artificial Sweeteners And Refined Sugar
You may not think these store bought coffees have a lot of sugar but here is an example - A salted caramel mocha contains 56 grams of sugar and a typical Frappuccino has over 66 grams of sugar. You may as well eat donuts for breakfast!
If you need to sweeten up your coffee, add a small amount of stevia instead of ALL that sugar.
2. Avoid Artificial Creamers
Artificial creamers contain so many dangerous ingredients, like corn syrup solids and hydrogenated oils (trans fats). Use real cream or add grass fed butter.
3. Only drink ORGANIC coffee
Always choose organic coffee beans. Coffee is the most heavily sprayed crop in the world
with pesticides.
4. Eat Before You Drink Coffee
Do not start your day with a big cup of coffee, because you will SPIKE your blood sugar level and then it drops. Your body releases insulin in response to the caffeine found within coffee. This, in turn, causes a major drop in blood sugar, which leaves you feeling depleted and tired. If you eat, even a small amount or add the next thing to your coffee,
it will slow down this insulin spike.
5. Add Coconut Oil to Coffee
Coconut oil is loaded with healthy fats, specifically medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs). These MCTs have been linked to improved weight loss in multiple scientific studies. Coconut oil will not only help you keep insulin levels low, it has SO many healing properties as well.
Coffee has some nutritional qualities, but the problem is:
1. What your adding to the coffee!
2. Drinking TOO MUCH!
3. When you are drinking it!
If you are drinking the popular coffee store versions, they have tons of extra calories,
sugar or even worse - FAKE sugar.
How do you make coffee healthier?
If you love to drink it and won't give it up - do this....
1. Avoid Artificial Sweeteners And Refined Sugar
You may not think these store bought coffees have a lot of sugar but here is an example - A salted caramel mocha contains 56 grams of sugar and a typical Frappuccino has over 66 grams of sugar. You may as well eat donuts for breakfast!
If you need to sweeten up your coffee, add a small amount of stevia instead of ALL that sugar.
2. Avoid Artificial Creamers
Artificial creamers contain so many dangerous ingredients, like corn syrup solids and hydrogenated oils (trans fats). Use real cream or add grass fed butter.
3. Only drink ORGANIC coffee
Always choose organic coffee beans. Coffee is the most heavily sprayed crop in the world
with pesticides.
4. Eat Before You Drink Coffee
Do not start your day with a big cup of coffee, because you will SPIKE your blood sugar level and then it drops. Your body releases insulin in response to the caffeine found within coffee. This, in turn, causes a major drop in blood sugar, which leaves you feeling depleted and tired. If you eat, even a small amount or add the next thing to your coffee,
it will slow down this insulin spike.
5. Add Coconut Oil to Coffee
Coconut oil is loaded with healthy fats, specifically medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs). These MCTs have been linked to improved weight loss in multiple scientific studies. Coconut oil will not only help you keep insulin levels low, it has SO many healing properties as well.
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Anyone Can Lose Weight On 500 Calories Per Day
Trying to just eat 500 calories a day to lose weight....and still expect to be HEALTHY?
Think again!
There are many new weight loss programs that have you eat only 500 calories a day and take different supplements, creams or even HCG!
Think again!
There are many new weight loss programs that have you eat only 500 calories a day and take different supplements, creams or even HCG!
This CAN definitely work short term, because if I have you eat a very
small amount of calories, you will lose weight and this can be very
beneficial SHORT TERM, but the problem is long term.
Here is WHY?
Eating only 500 calories a day can limit the amount of fats, proteins and carbohydrates that are necessary to live. When you begin to deplete your body of these, your body goes into what it thinks is SURVIVAL mode because it thinks it's starving. When eating only 500 calories a day for a long period of time, it creates a LARGE loss of body protein, primarily from muscle tissue. The protein losses continue to decrease rapidly as the body thinks it's starving and up to one half of the total weight lost during a this type of fasting is muscle and water, a ratio which is unacceptable.
This is why as soon as you begin eating normal again, you gain your weight right back, you have spent lots of money and now your upset. There are NO shortcuts to health or losing weight. The key to losing weight is to move your body from a SUGAR burner to a FAT burner.
That is why Intermittent fasting with high intensity exercise is a much healthier and smarter way to....
1. lose weight
2. keep it off
3. get healthier
4. reduce inflammation
With Intermittent Fasting, it allows you to get the benefits of fasting, but you're still able to get enough calories of all the necessary, proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Instead of BURNING muscle and wasting away, your able to TRULY burn fat and still BUILD muscle.
Here is WHY?
Eating only 500 calories a day can limit the amount of fats, proteins and carbohydrates that are necessary to live. When you begin to deplete your body of these, your body goes into what it thinks is SURVIVAL mode because it thinks it's starving. When eating only 500 calories a day for a long period of time, it creates a LARGE loss of body protein, primarily from muscle tissue. The protein losses continue to decrease rapidly as the body thinks it's starving and up to one half of the total weight lost during a this type of fasting is muscle and water, a ratio which is unacceptable.
This is why as soon as you begin eating normal again, you gain your weight right back, you have spent lots of money and now your upset. There are NO shortcuts to health or losing weight. The key to losing weight is to move your body from a SUGAR burner to a FAT burner.
That is why Intermittent fasting with high intensity exercise is a much healthier and smarter way to....
1. lose weight
2. keep it off
3. get healthier
4. reduce inflammation
With Intermittent Fasting, it allows you to get the benefits of fasting, but you're still able to get enough calories of all the necessary, proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Instead of BURNING muscle and wasting away, your able to TRULY burn fat and still BUILD muscle.
Monday, February 15, 2016
Is Your Family Still Getting This?
Is Your Family Still Getting This???
A report from the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, has officially classified fluoride as a neurotoxin — in the same category as arsenic, lead and mercury. Also in the report, they note that neurodevelopmental disabilities, including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and other cognitive impairments, are now affecting millions of children worldwide in what they call a “pandemic of developmental neurotoxicity.”
The report coincides with 2013 findings by a Harvard University meta-analysis that concluded that children in areas with highly fluoridated water have “significantly lower” IQ scores that those who live in areas with low amounts of fluoride in their water supplies. Sodium fluoride in drinking water has also been linked to various cancers. Currently, fluoride is added to water supplies across much of North America, but the list of countries that ban or reject water fluoridation shows, the practice is actually not too common, or banned entirely throughout most of Europe and in several other developed nations across the world.
Since most places in America still add fluoride to the water a high quality water filter is recommend to filter out the fluoride, and it can be especially important to avoid exposing yourself to too much fluoride in your daily shower or bath. Also opt for non – fluorinated toothpastes that are also free of other harmful ingredients.
#HealthFromWithinSTL
#MaximizedLiving
#Essential5
#RemoveTheToxins
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Starving Your Cancer of Sugar!
STARVING your Cancer of Sugar...increases your chances of survival!
If your oncologist or doctor is STILL in denial that SUGAR FEEDS CANCER...RUN!!!
Here are 7 more studies PROVING this again and some of these studies are from the hospitals you've been diagnosed at!
This is a video Dr. Majors did on how sugar FEEDS cancer...
https://www.youtube.com/
*1. In the January 2014 Journal of Clinical Investigation (124 (1), 367 – 384), scientists Yasuhito Onodera, Jin Min Nam and Min J Bissel showed that increased glucose uptake actually promotes cancer via two pathways – EPAC/RAP1 and O-GicNAc. They showed that increased glycolysis (due to increased use of glucose as a fuel) actually caused cancer to form.
*2. American Medical School Johns Hopkins have researched colorectal cancer (August 6, 2009). “Colon Cancer may yield to Cellular Sugar Starvation”. They showed that starving patients of sugar can increase survival – they found two genes that cause a cancer’s survival and growth in situations where healthy cells fail.
*3. People with the highest blood sugar levels develop more cancers, and people with cancer and high blood sugar levels survive least. Poor sugar control has been consistently linked with cancer and people with diabetes have higher risk of cancer. This may be direct – through glucose – or indirect – through insulin, according to the American Academy of Oncology Nutrition.
*4. Sugar damage doesn’t just involve feeding the cancer. As long ago as 1973 research showed that sugar consumption could block the action of the immune system from attacking cancer cells (Sanchez A et al; Am J Clin Nutr; Nov 1973; 26 (11) 1180-4).
*5. The Mayo Clinic states clearly on its website that “There is some evidence that consuming large amounts of sugar is associated with an increased risk of certain cancers.”
*6. 2010 research conducted by Dr. Anthony Hearney of UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center, studies on pancreatic cells showed that exposure to both glucose and fructose, made cancer cells divide and proliferate, but fructose (and soft drinks use High Fructose Corn Syrup, of HFCS) made them divide much more rapidly.
*7. Three to five day fasts has been shown by experts such as Dr. Valter Longo of the University of Southern California to boost the immune system and stop the progression of cancer by suppressing blood glucose, insulin and growth hormone levels.
This is why my FAVORITE diet is Intermittent Fasting with a Ketogenic Diet, which keeps the blood glucose low, ketones high and helps HEAL, REPAIR and REGENERATE the body.
#BeACancerKiller
#MaximizedLiving
#HealthFromWithin
If your oncologist or doctor is STILL in denial that SUGAR FEEDS CANCER...RUN!!!
Here are 7 more studies PROVING this again and some of these studies are from the hospitals you've been diagnosed at!
This is a video Dr. Majors did on how sugar FEEDS cancer...
https://www.youtube.com/
*1. In the January 2014 Journal of Clinical Investigation (124 (1), 367 – 384), scientists Yasuhito Onodera, Jin Min Nam and Min J Bissel showed that increased glucose uptake actually promotes cancer via two pathways – EPAC/RAP1 and O-GicNAc. They showed that increased glycolysis (due to increased use of glucose as a fuel) actually caused cancer to form.
*2. American Medical School Johns Hopkins have researched colorectal cancer (August 6, 2009). “Colon Cancer may yield to Cellular Sugar Starvation”. They showed that starving patients of sugar can increase survival – they found two genes that cause a cancer’s survival and growth in situations where healthy cells fail.
*3. People with the highest blood sugar levels develop more cancers, and people with cancer and high blood sugar levels survive least. Poor sugar control has been consistently linked with cancer and people with diabetes have higher risk of cancer. This may be direct – through glucose – or indirect – through insulin, according to the American Academy of Oncology Nutrition.
*4. Sugar damage doesn’t just involve feeding the cancer. As long ago as 1973 research showed that sugar consumption could block the action of the immune system from attacking cancer cells (Sanchez A et al; Am J Clin Nutr; Nov 1973; 26 (11) 1180-4).
*5. The Mayo Clinic states clearly on its website that “There is some evidence that consuming large amounts of sugar is associated with an increased risk of certain cancers.”
*6. 2010 research conducted by Dr. Anthony Hearney of UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center, studies on pancreatic cells showed that exposure to both glucose and fructose, made cancer cells divide and proliferate, but fructose (and soft drinks use High Fructose Corn Syrup, of HFCS) made them divide much more rapidly.
*7. Three to five day fasts has been shown by experts such as Dr. Valter Longo of the University of Southern California to boost the immune system and stop the progression of cancer by suppressing blood glucose, insulin and growth hormone levels.
This is why my FAVORITE diet is Intermittent Fasting with a Ketogenic Diet, which keeps the blood glucose low, ketones high and helps HEAL, REPAIR and REGENERATE the body.
#BeACancerKiller
#MaximizedLiving
#HealthFromWithin
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
10 Steps To A Healthier You
We are in our first official week of 2016, I wanted to take a moment and spell out for you a heath plan that will give guaranteed results, boundless amounts of energy and vitality, offer significant weight loss and muscle building as well as kicking the habit of popping pills for your health. I can promise you one thing - I have seen dramatic results with my own health and the thousands of patients whose lives have been transformed through Maximized Living and natural healing. May this be a year of blessings, abundance and health!
ELIMINATE ALL CARBONATED BEVERAGES
The following health conditions have been linked to the consumption of carbonated beverages: Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Kidney Failure, Liver Damage, Osteoporosis and Acid Reflux. Why? These drinks are carbonated using Carbon Dioxide (which lowers the pH) and also include a vary powerful acid ingredient (phosphoric acid). In addition, the sugar content is so high that you would naturally vomit the solution if the pH were not as low as it is (which is why they add phosphoric acid).
Its time to kick the habit. I promise you will see almost immediate results. You can begin this by switching to clean sparkling water. Yes it has the carbon dioxide but lacks the sugar and added phosphoric acid. Over time you can change to other fizzy drinks like kombucha or kevita. Eventually, as your bodies pH increases and your health changes you will find that flat water, green tea and even some coffee's are the best beverages on this planet!
INTERMITTENT FAST DAILY
Your body probably already has enough "fuel" on it to last much longer than the time between your current meals. Cutting one or two meals per day offers the fastest ability for your body to become a lean, mean, fat burning machine! Its best to restrict yourself to a 8 hour eating window with a 16 hour fasting window on a daily basis. When timed properly, this isn't as hard as it sounds. Simply sleep for the first 8, skip breakfast and replace it with water or green tea and eat for the 3rd set of 8 hours. Repeat daily and watch the guaranteed results.
GET ADJUSTED
Every organ in your body is connected to your nerve system (brain and spinal cord). A recent study demonstrated that between 77 and 80 TRILLION individual nerve fibers pass through the small hole in your skull and first bones in your neck as they travel from the brain to every square inch of your body. Adjustments to your spine, when done with the intent of opening restrictions in nerve flow (as opposed to just blocking pain) are the best and most essential for your optimum performance and health. If you have never been adjusted - make 2016 a year to have your spine de-stressed!
EAT MORE FAT
The most recent research, and even mainstream media, is now admitting their mistakes. Low fat is out, HIGH FAT IS IN! Make sure they are healthy fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats which you can get from plants and well fed animals. I recommend anywhere from 60-85% of your diet overall should be from healthy fat sources: coconut products and oil, avocado and its oil, grass fed butter, nuts and their oils and grass fed/wild caught animal fats. The days of shunning butter are over - its time to have it on a stick!
ELIMINATE ALL GRAINS
Known as the "white devil" grains are composed of wheat, rice, oats and corn. Grains contain an enormous amounts of inflammatory properties for the human body - with inflammation being linked to almost every disease known to mankind today - specifically brain disease and function. Dr. David Perlmutter, MD authors "Grain Brain" and says "disease starts in your daily bread!" Eliminating all grains is a massive step towards overall health and wellbeing.
ELEVATE YOUR VITAMIN D3
By now its no secret - Vitamin D3 boosts your immunity, reverses and prevents many cancers, diabetes and heart disease and has even been linked to balanced hormones and better sleep. Before you ask how much to take, remember: DON'T GUESS, TEST! An annual vitamin D3 test needs to be part of your health regimen; just tell your doctor you want your 25(OH)D or 25-hydroxyvitamin D tested. I suggest having a level of 80-100 ng/ml as that's the cancer fighting, disease reversing level.
Dosages:
80-100ng/ml | 5,000 IU daily to maintain
50-80 ng/ml | 10,000 IU daily for 90 days, then retest
<50 ng/ml | 15,000 IU daily for 90 days, then retest
CHANGE YOUR MEATS
This one will blow you health out of the water for 2016, and no I am not saying stop eating meats. I'm simply asking you to switch them to only Grass fed for red meats, wild caught for seafood and free range for poultry. Why? All conventional animals in the US eat grains, which makes them just as fat and sick as we are! So, to have your health turn around this year, start eating healthy animals - your health will love you for it!
WARNING: Watch out with poultry - just being vegetarian fed and/or cage free doesn't cut it. Corn/Rice/Soy/Wheat are vegetarian by definition (and inflammatory). Cage free still means fenced in. You want a chicken that's allowed to go get its own food and has no boundaries. They are NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND in grocery stores. You can get lucky and find a farm or grow your own or you can start to cut poultry all together and stick with grass fed red meats and wild caught fish.
MEDIATE/PRAY 10-15 MIN DAILY
Science has shown that meditation not only eliminates stress, but is the best for anxiety, worry, concern and depression. AND, OF COURSE, we don't need science to tell us prayer works. Its also 100% free and can be done anytime and anywhere (except while driving)
REPAIR YOUR GUT
It's been estimated that up to 90% of Americans suffer for one form of digestive/gut issues - the largest being "Leaky Gut." This doesn't mean you are leaking body fluids, but instead, leaking undigested proteins across the gut wall into your blood stream where they are seen as a foreign object (much like a virus, fungus or bacteria). While this doesn't sound too bad, its one of the #1 reasons for auto-immune conditions like arthritis, psoriasis, lupus, thyroid and the many other thousands of auto-immune diseases. The proteins that leak across are often from animal sources (the meats your are eating) and your body gets confused between the foods and your own tissues - so overtime, if not corrected, you can build an immune response against yourself and start attacking yourself!
Gut repair typically begins by calming down your intestines and changing your diet away from everything I have been talking about above, getting tested to see how "leaky" you are, and addressing the cause by replenishing the gut wall, mucosa and beneficial bacteria. This is one you may need professional help with because of the depth of causes - but I can say, speaking from experience, cleaning and healing your gut will clean and heal your health in no time (sometimes as quickly as 14 days!)
HELP OTHERS
One of the greatest things we can ever do is realize that life isn't just about meeting our needs, but about helping others. Giving back can be as easy as forwarding this email to a friend or family member or sharing your results with others as your health takes a turn for the better this year. Remember, most New Year resolutions do fail for one reason or another, to this year why not have a resolution to live a healthier live all together and teach others how you did it! It's about living a little bit differently, a little bit better, so that ultimately you’re happier and healthier for it.
ELIMINATE ALL CARBONATED BEVERAGES
The following health conditions have been linked to the consumption of carbonated beverages: Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Kidney Failure, Liver Damage, Osteoporosis and Acid Reflux. Why? These drinks are carbonated using Carbon Dioxide (which lowers the pH) and also include a vary powerful acid ingredient (phosphoric acid). In addition, the sugar content is so high that you would naturally vomit the solution if the pH were not as low as it is (which is why they add phosphoric acid).
Its time to kick the habit. I promise you will see almost immediate results. You can begin this by switching to clean sparkling water. Yes it has the carbon dioxide but lacks the sugar and added phosphoric acid. Over time you can change to other fizzy drinks like kombucha or kevita. Eventually, as your bodies pH increases and your health changes you will find that flat water, green tea and even some coffee's are the best beverages on this planet!
INTERMITTENT FAST DAILY
Your body probably already has enough "fuel" on it to last much longer than the time between your current meals. Cutting one or two meals per day offers the fastest ability for your body to become a lean, mean, fat burning machine! Its best to restrict yourself to a 8 hour eating window with a 16 hour fasting window on a daily basis. When timed properly, this isn't as hard as it sounds. Simply sleep for the first 8, skip breakfast and replace it with water or green tea and eat for the 3rd set of 8 hours. Repeat daily and watch the guaranteed results.
GET ADJUSTED
Every organ in your body is connected to your nerve system (brain and spinal cord). A recent study demonstrated that between 77 and 80 TRILLION individual nerve fibers pass through the small hole in your skull and first bones in your neck as they travel from the brain to every square inch of your body. Adjustments to your spine, when done with the intent of opening restrictions in nerve flow (as opposed to just blocking pain) are the best and most essential for your optimum performance and health. If you have never been adjusted - make 2016 a year to have your spine de-stressed!
EAT MORE FAT
The most recent research, and even mainstream media, is now admitting their mistakes. Low fat is out, HIGH FAT IS IN! Make sure they are healthy fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats which you can get from plants and well fed animals. I recommend anywhere from 60-85% of your diet overall should be from healthy fat sources: coconut products and oil, avocado and its oil, grass fed butter, nuts and their oils and grass fed/wild caught animal fats. The days of shunning butter are over - its time to have it on a stick!
ELIMINATE ALL GRAINS
Known as the "white devil" grains are composed of wheat, rice, oats and corn. Grains contain an enormous amounts of inflammatory properties for the human body - with inflammation being linked to almost every disease known to mankind today - specifically brain disease and function. Dr. David Perlmutter, MD authors "Grain Brain" and says "disease starts in your daily bread!" Eliminating all grains is a massive step towards overall health and wellbeing.
ELEVATE YOUR VITAMIN D3
By now its no secret - Vitamin D3 boosts your immunity, reverses and prevents many cancers, diabetes and heart disease and has even been linked to balanced hormones and better sleep. Before you ask how much to take, remember: DON'T GUESS, TEST! An annual vitamin D3 test needs to be part of your health regimen; just tell your doctor you want your 25(OH)D or 25-hydroxyvitamin D tested. I suggest having a level of 80-100 ng/ml as that's the cancer fighting, disease reversing level.
Dosages:
80-100ng/ml | 5,000 IU daily to maintain
50-80 ng/ml | 10,000 IU daily for 90 days, then retest
<50 ng/ml | 15,000 IU daily for 90 days, then retest
CHANGE YOUR MEATS
This one will blow you health out of the water for 2016, and no I am not saying stop eating meats. I'm simply asking you to switch them to only Grass fed for red meats, wild caught for seafood and free range for poultry. Why? All conventional animals in the US eat grains, which makes them just as fat and sick as we are! So, to have your health turn around this year, start eating healthy animals - your health will love you for it!
WARNING: Watch out with poultry - just being vegetarian fed and/or cage free doesn't cut it. Corn/Rice/Soy/Wheat are vegetarian by definition (and inflammatory). Cage free still means fenced in. You want a chicken that's allowed to go get its own food and has no boundaries. They are NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND in grocery stores. You can get lucky and find a farm or grow your own or you can start to cut poultry all together and stick with grass fed red meats and wild caught fish.
MEDIATE/PRAY 10-15 MIN DAILY
Science has shown that meditation not only eliminates stress, but is the best for anxiety, worry, concern and depression. AND, OF COURSE, we don't need science to tell us prayer works. Its also 100% free and can be done anytime and anywhere (except while driving)
REPAIR YOUR GUT
It's been estimated that up to 90% of Americans suffer for one form of digestive/gut issues - the largest being "Leaky Gut." This doesn't mean you are leaking body fluids, but instead, leaking undigested proteins across the gut wall into your blood stream where they are seen as a foreign object (much like a virus, fungus or bacteria). While this doesn't sound too bad, its one of the #1 reasons for auto-immune conditions like arthritis, psoriasis, lupus, thyroid and the many other thousands of auto-immune diseases. The proteins that leak across are often from animal sources (the meats your are eating) and your body gets confused between the foods and your own tissues - so overtime, if not corrected, you can build an immune response against yourself and start attacking yourself!
Gut repair typically begins by calming down your intestines and changing your diet away from everything I have been talking about above, getting tested to see how "leaky" you are, and addressing the cause by replenishing the gut wall, mucosa and beneficial bacteria. This is one you may need professional help with because of the depth of causes - but I can say, speaking from experience, cleaning and healing your gut will clean and heal your health in no time (sometimes as quickly as 14 days!)
HELP OTHERS
One of the greatest things we can ever do is realize that life isn't just about meeting our needs, but about helping others. Giving back can be as easy as forwarding this email to a friend or family member or sharing your results with others as your health takes a turn for the better this year. Remember, most New Year resolutions do fail for one reason or another, to this year why not have a resolution to live a healthier live all together and teach others how you did it! It's about living a little bit differently, a little bit better, so that ultimately you’re happier and healthier for it.
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