tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35093272899443532552024-02-06T23:57:35.617-08:00The Gut and the Gall StoneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3509327289944353255.post-37282932494669232382014-04-04T13:15:00.000-07:002014-04-04T14:18:22.253-07:00Grounded<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last week I purchased an earthing pad from <a href="https://www.earthing.com/">earthing.com</a> to check out it out. I have been slipping it under my feet when I work on the computer as this helps protect me for the EMF's associated with laptops and other online devices. I also keep it on the foot rest of recliner to ground me while I am watching TV or reading a book. I use it at night (the best way to ground without changing too much in your life) at the foot of my bed. If my digestion seemed slow I would lie on the couch and lay the pad on my bare tummy and feel things start to gurgle and move or one my back to relieve my chronic back pain. And do you know what I can feel a difference now in my over all health in just one little week.<br />
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The best difference I have noted is waking up after sleeping with my feet on it at night and feeling really rested and relaxed, like I really slept well and deep and had many many more dreams than usual. I have more stamina so I can go through my days now feeling good all the way until bedtime. I am calmer too and feel less irritable. It actually makes mr more grounded through out the day. I handle stress better with a laugh and a smile. The feeling I get form sleeping with my new earthing pad reminds of when I was a kid and would wake up feel like I had slept so deep that I wanted to stay there forever. Bliss. (sigh)<br />
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They <a href="https://www.earthing.com/">(earthing.com</a>) say that getting grounded to the earth actually males you blood move quicker and not clump up like tomato paste. I felt this phenomenon the first fews days I began grounding myself. I was light headed, a bit spicy and felt like sleeping a lot. So as my schedule allowed it I slept much of the first and second day on the couch and let that sleepy feeling fill me up. Soon that stopped and I kept sleeping well at night but I was awake during the day with a clearer head and feeling ready for the day something that has not been true for me for several years now.<br />
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So hooray for earthing and getting grounded again to the earth. <a href="http://earthing.com/">Earthing.com</a> has many products that allow you to ground yourself in many ways, but there are also a few novel ideas on youtube that intrigued me too.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeQNMw2aSzw">grounding your kitchen floor</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wPqh4DNfwg">making your own grounding sheet 1</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqFkyUlv3T4">2</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNrKqt_F7AM">healed via going barefoot the cheapest way to ground yourself</a><br />
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and then there are some great you tubes explaining how all this works<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7gWnRG8gfk">Dr. Mercola interviews Clint Oberg the author of the book entitled Earthing</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26HphzJmWKU">Dr James Oshmen on Earthing on Grounding</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11PC8AFrh5w">Dr. Mercola interviews Dr. Sinatra co author of the book Earthing</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfVQ1s6BNOA">earthing and how to do it</a><br />
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Now for a walk barefoot outside in the cool wet grass or in the sand by the sea. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3509327289944353255.post-74720010951983775492014-03-24T09:54:00.000-07:002014-03-24T09:54:38.423-07:00A Fun New Discovery...Healing Is Energy!!!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>"The Key to making chronic disease better is making a single cell work. If you give the body the things a single needs to work, the body often has the power to heal all the cells of the body. " Dr. Tennannt</i></span></blockquote>
I have been having fun learning just what a cell needs to work and how that can improve my health by reading Dr. Tennannt's book <a href="http://www.tennantinstitute.us/store/books/healing-is-voltage-the.html">Healing is Voltage</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBbYU7Tp0co">watching his you tube's</a>, and reading the great wealth of knowledge on <a href="http://www.tennantinstitute.us/">his website</a>. Dr. Tennant's solution is quite simple and can be summed up in this list of things a cell needs.<br />
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1. <b>Water:</b> The body is about 75% water. It needs clean water that is charged, alkaline water to be healthy. Drinking cleaned water via a reverse osmosis system takes out the voltage in the water thus making the water acidic which in essence steals valuable voltage or electrons from your body. Acidic is low voltage synonymous with the term electron stealer. Alkaline water that is charge with electrons on the other hand recharges your body giving it the electrons or voyage each cells needs to work. It is energy.<br />
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I have been investigating water purification systems that clean, remineralize and then alkaline the water and these two look like good options.<br />
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<a href="http://www.radiantlifecatalog.com/product/radiant-life-14-stage-water-purification-system/water-filtration-systems">Under the sink 14 stage system by Radiant life</a><br />
<a href="http://www.senergy.us/phprescription-countertop-alkaline-water-filtration-system.html">Counter top 7 stage system by Synergy.us</a><br />
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2. <b>Fat:</b> Every cell membrane in the body is made up of two layers of fats called phospholipids. These fats are designed to receive nutrients for the cell and must be made from saturated fats like butter and coconut and palm oil. Partially hydrogenated oils like canola and corn oils create an inflexible membrane or layer that will not allow nutrients into the cells. They starve the cell of the very nutrients it needs instead of being flexible and able to absorb nutrients like the saturated fats butter and coconut and palm oil. Dr. Tennannt says we should be giving our cells 5 lbs of good fat a week.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Your-Straight-Healthy-Economist-Guide-ebook/dp/B00BR3SKME/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1395677720&sr=1-1&keywords=get+your+fats+straight">Get Your Fats Straight by Sarah Pope</a> a WAPF chapter leader in Florida has written a great book on what are healthy fats.<br />
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I am not yet able to digest all the healthy fats or the proteins so I am following Dr. Tennannt's advice regarding stomach acid <a href="http://www.tennantinstitute.us/conditions/stomach-acid.html">found here</a>.<br />
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3. <b>Proteins:</b> Every cell in the body contains "machinery" made up of proteins, that do the work of the cells.<br />
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Grass fed, wild caught meats are best<br />
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4. <b>Carbohydrates:</b> Needed primarily to provide vitamins and minerals.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"There are very few products that provide all or even most of the raw materials to make new cells and sustain existing ones. <u>The problem is we need ALL of them AT THE SAME TIME for things to work.</u>"</span></i><br />
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There is a product Dr. Tennannt recommends that will do that however and that is <a href="https://www.seahealthstore.com/FrequenSea/Purchase/index.php">FrequenSea</a> by <a href="http://www.forevergreen.org/frequensea.html">Forever Green</a>. There is a wonderful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoySN-bZl2A">you tube here</a> telling all about it.<br />
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5. <b>Voltage:</b> Voltage is stored in the cell membrane of every cell to give the energy to work. There are a couple of ways to know if your body voltage is low:<br />
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<li>Use the bio-mudulator on the main acupuncture meridians as explained in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBbYU7Tp0co">Tennannt you tubes Part 2 episodes 1-5</a>.</li>
<li>Take your temperature first thing in the morning before you get out of bed. If you are below 97.5 F your thyroid is not functioning up to par. As the thyroid is in charge of supplying energy to your cells it is a god indicator of your voltage.</li>
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If your voltage is low or you have pain (pain indicates low voltage) you can use these methods to improve your voltage over all or in specific areas.</div>
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<li>Use the bio-modulator as shown in Dr. Tennannt's you-tubes on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvVdsMz6HX8">how to use the biomodulator episodes 1-15.</a></li>
<li>Apply thyroid therapy as described by Dr. Rind<a href="http://www.drrind.com/therapies/metabolic-therapy#repair"> here</a>, or talk with your doctor.</li>
<li>Use any of the earthing products <a href="http://www.radiantlifecatalog.com/category/earthing-grounding">found here</a>. For a great you tube movie on earthing check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoXRAqsXCmQ">Grounded</a> by a National Geographic film a maker in Alaska about his discovery of how earthing works.</li>
<li>Drink alkaline water</li>
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For myself, I'll be looking into getting a system to make alkaline water, an 8 month supply of frequenSea, and some earthing products as I get my stomach acid in shape for some good proteins and fats. He recommends doing a no grain, no sugar diet and some juicing to give the body the best chance to heal. Dr. Tennannt says that it takes 8 months to renew all the cells in your body so I am look for an 8 month or longer window where I can apply all these helpful things at the same time and see what outcome I'll get.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3509327289944353255.post-56120083372037246352014-03-19T16:46:00.000-07:002014-03-19T16:51:23.017-07:00Whoa! Not Enough Stomach Acid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I thought I had considered everything when I began addressing the issue with my <a href="http://gutngallstone.blogspot.com/2014/03/onto-adrenals.html">low adrenals</a> a few weeks ago but I missed something so I am slowing down and starting again more slowly. I discovered my low stomach acid needs to be fixed before I go on to other experiments with my adrenals and thyroid.<br />
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I figured this out when I tried adding the supplements for adrenal support to my existing supplement regime and developed bloating, gas, pain in my stomach, acid reflux, no appetite, which was really that my belly was so full of supplements there wasn't room for any food.<br />
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I learned in my <a href="http://members.divinehealthfromtheinsideout.com/heal-your-gut">Heal the Gut class</a> this winter that<a href="http://divinehealthfromtheinsideout.com/2012/03/should-you-be-supplementing-with-hydrochloric-acid/"> I needed to supplement with HCL</a> I suspected this was true for me because of the following symptoms: (the one that pertain to myself are starred)*<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">Belching or gas within one hour after eating* </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">heartburn or acid reflux* </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">bloating within one hour after eating*</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">a vegan diet* (I do eat organ meats, and sea food)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">bad breath*</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">loss of taste for meat </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">sweat has a strong odor* </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">stomach upset by taking vitamins*</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">sense of excess fullness after meals feel*</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">like skipping breakfast *</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">feel better if you don’t eat *</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">sleepy after meals *</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">fingernails chip, peel or break easily *</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">anemia unresponsive to iron *</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">stomach pains or cramps </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">diarrhea (chronic) </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">diarrhea shortly after meals </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">black or tarry colored stools </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">undigested food in stool... </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">To further test my need for HCL I followed this test:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><i>Self-Test Instructions </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><i>1. Begin by taking one 350 to 750 mg capsule of betaine HCl with a protein-containing meal. A normal response in a healthy person would be discomfort – basically, heartburn (or a warming sensation in the stomach). If you do not feel a burning sensation, at the next protein-containing meal, take two capsules. </i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><i>2. If there are no reactions, after two days increase the number of capsules with each meal to two capsules. 3.... </i></span></span><br />
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My test began ok, initially the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Biotics-Research-Hydro-Zyme-250T/dp/B003JOHDE0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395255180&sr=8-1&keywords=hydrozyme+biotics">HCl</a> I was taking settled well but after a week or so as I increased my dose to 4 capsules a meal I began to get a very painful belly so I dropped back to three capsules a meal and still my stomach ached and felt like fire. I went back to two capsules a meal but I was still very uncomfortable so I stopped taking the HCl altogether to give my stomach a chance to settle down. Still I was having trouble digesting so I stopped ALL my daily supplements except the PCA spray for mercury chelation. Though the first trial did not go well, now that my stomach is feeling better I plan to switch to the HCL Betaine she recommended and try again advancing to a higher dose more slowly, like one capsule for a week, then if all is ok try two capsules etc. Once I find how many capsules I can take without any reaction I'll know if I need to daily supplement with HCL or not. So, a normal person would feel discomfort with <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">one 350 to 750 mg capsule of betaine HCl anything more than that indicates my HCL is low and I need to supplement. Ideally it would be great to never need the supplement with HCL ever. That is the goal.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #111111;">I was also low in zinc. I found this out by doing this test:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><i>Zinc Test- </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><i>To start this test you should not have had anything to eat or drink (except water within 30 minutes). Swish with 1 TBS. liquid zinc around in your mouth for up to 30 seconds and note the second you taste something other than water. Write down whether it tastes like one of the following descriptions; </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><i>-Strong unpleasant taste =EXCELLENT</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><i>-definite taste that gets stronger but is noted immediately= FAIR</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><i>-no immediate taste but slightly minerally, dry or furry = POOR</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><i>-no specific taste after 30 seconds= DEFICIENT</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><i>-sweet taste after 30 seconds = EXTREMELY DEFICIENT</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><i>Since zinc helps to build HCL it would be a good thing to get a gauge on whether you are deficient or not. Supplement with a few bottle of liquid zinc while working to rebuild your stomach acid. the liquid is more readily absorbed - since zinc is only pulled out of your food/supplements with adequate HCL this method is a good approach to help bypass digestion while working to rebuild the stomach acid. After supplemental zinc for a brief period retry the test to see if your status improves. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><i>I do not recommend supplementing with zinc over 50 mg. per day without adding in 1-2 mg. of copper. As with any mineral, it's best if you are supplementing for any length of time to consider working with a practitioner to make sure you keep all the minerals in balance. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the hiatus from my experiment I did some reading on <a href="http://www.tennantinstitute.us/conditions/stomach-acid.html">Dr Tennannt's site</a> and discovered this about stomach acid:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>"The human body should never absorb proteins---only amino acids. The way the system is supposed to work is that stomach acid breaks proteins into amino acids. The amino acids go downstream, are absorbed, and the body makes its own proteins.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>When you don't have stomach acid, whole proteins get absorbed. The immune system recognizes that it didn't make those proteins and assumes they are viruses. It makes antibodies to these food proteins. Soon you are allergic to the foods you most commonly eat. You have a "mini-flu" after every meal as your body attacks your food and thus you feel tired about 30 minutes after you eat.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>The system tries to isolate these proteins and often stores them in fat---thus you gain weight.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>The antibodies make your blood sticky. This increases your risk of blood clots and makes it hard for the blood to pick up and deliver oxygen. As your body oxygen levels drop, your metabolism gets worse and anaerobic microorganisms begin to grow.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>This process often starts with GERD (gastro-esophageal reflux disease). When you don't make enough stomach acid, you develop gas as your stomach tries to digest your food. These gas bubbles are surrounded by stomach acid. The bubbles float up into your esophagus and you belch. You taste stomach acid and your esophagus burns. Thus you think you have too much stomach acid when the real problem is that you have too little.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>Your stomach feels better when you take antacids and/or drugs that shut down your stomach acid. However, this insures that you will develop chronic disease! You will become allergic to your protiens. In addition, the body cannot absorb zinc without stomach acid. Without zinc, you cannot make neurochemicals like serotonin, so you become depressed. Zinc is also necessary for over 360 known biochemical reactions including proper prostate function.</i></span></div>
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My <a href="http://gutngallstone.blogspot.com/2014/02/eat-to-heat-update.html">eat to heat experiment</a> is still ongoing, and so is my care of the gallstone but for the next few months I am paying more attention to my adrenals. I have continued to eat what my body asks for paying attention to the four S's that I wrote about in my post<a href="http://gutngallstone.blogspot.com/2014/01/rest-and-refeed.html"> rest and refeed</a>. The Fours S's are: salt, sugar, starch and saturated fats. I am also seeking out practical ways to rest and get a good 10-11 hours of sleep each night. I have not been keeping track of my weight as I have gained it because I simply do not want that data to interfere with the real over arching goal of getting healthy, or more specifically getting my metabolic rate back up to normal.<br />
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Following the metabolism and not my appearance has been stretching but I am confident that it will lead me to a better healthy end then trying to get thin. Thin is not the measure of good health. Thin may not be the outcome, but I am ok with that as long as I have energy and good health. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Matt+Stone&page=1&rh=n:283155,p_27:Matt+Stone">Matt Stone</a> whom I have been reading these past few months often references a Dr. from the 1970's named Broda Barnes as the source of his inspiration to look to the metabolism for health. As Broda Barnes had such an influence on Matt's research I decided to read his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hypothyroidism-Unsuspected-Illness-Broda-Barnes/dp/069001029X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394218117&sr=1-1&keywords=hypothyroidism+barnes">Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected illness</a>. The thyroid is a key element in the metabolic rate. So I have the book by my bed and plan to read through it this spring, along with Mark Starr's book <a href="http://www.21centurymed.com/?page_id=7">Hypothyroidism Type 2 the Epidemic.</a></div>
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While I am reading I am also conducting another experiment using <a href="http://www.drrind.com/therapies/metabolic-therapy">Dr Rind's metabolic therapy protocols</a>. You see I have been eating to heat up my metabolism and have no change in my temperatures. I am also traveling so my stress levels can not abate, so I emailed Matt and his advice was to try the thyroid glandular and see what happens.<br />
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Upon reading Dr Rind's site which is very easy to follow and understand, I discovered a great tool for assessing whether the thyroid issue is thyroid only or a combination of adrenal failure and thyroid disfunction, it's called the <a href="http://www.drrind.com/therapies/metabolic-symptoms-matrix">metabolic score card</a>. I highlighted the things that I could say I had issues with on the score card it was quite clear I needed some adrenal support before beginning the thyroid glandular. In my <a href="http://gutngallstone.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-adrenal-connection.html">post here</a>, I talked about Daniel Forsynth realizing in his application of thyroid glandular that the adrenals must come first, The adrenals are like the engine of a car and the thyroid like the gas pedal, If you rev up the gas and your engine is struggling you could blow out the engine or in my case the adrenals. So while I read more about the thyroid from Broda Barnes and Dr. Starr I will be supporting my adrenal using Dr Rind's adrenal therapy protocol.<br />
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1. Get rest. I aim for 10-11 hours of good sleep at night, I keep a salt and sugar mixture by my bed incase I wake at 2-4 when the adrenals peak and need some help going back to sleep. I also am mindful of keeping all my electronic equipment out of my bedroom. So no electric clock by my bed, I use my hand watch with a light instead. I used to keep my lap to and my kindle on a table near my bed and I still do but I careful to keep the wifi off and they sit at least 6 feet away from my head. All this is to keep my sleep time <a href="http://emf.mercola.com/">free of EMF's</a>.<br />
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2. Exercise carefully. I workout only once a week at the gym doing <a href="http://www.precisiontraining.com/">static contraction workouts</a> and do some slow walking during the week.<br />
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4. Supplement with the following recommended by Dr Rind: <a href="http://www.drrind.com/adrenal-therapy/basic-cell-energy">Cell Energy</a>, <a href="http://www.drrind.com/adrenal-therapy/adrenal-cortex">Adrenal Cortex</a>, <a href="http://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-premium-l-proline-500-mg-100-caps">Pro-Line</a>, <a href="http://www.swansonvitamins.com/american-health-ester-c-citrus-bioflavonoids-1000-mg-180-veg-tab?csi=AM089&csp=AM091">Ester-C, </a><a href="http://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-ultra-biocore-optimum-complete-ultimate-full-spectrum-enzymes-90-veg-caps">Digestive enzymes</a>,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Great-Lakes-Gelatin-Hydrolysate-individuals/dp/B005KG7EDU/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1394218946&sr=8-7&keywords=hydrolyzed+collagen"> hydrolyzed collagen</a><a href="http://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-premium-multiple-amino-acids-500-mg-500-caps">/amino acids</a>, and <a href="http://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-ultra-super-strength-magnesium-citrate-225-mg-120-tabs">magnesium</a>.<br />
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The plan is to begin support of the adrenals for three or four weeks then add in the <a href="http://www.drrind.com/thyroid/thytrophin-pmg-by-standard-process">thyroid glandular</a>. I will keep up the adrenal support for another three to four months and then drop off the adrenal support supplements but keep on with the thyroid for a while or indefinitely as my body needs it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3509327289944353255.post-51784360196328396582014-02-08T23:55:00.000-08:002014-02-08T23:55:11.286-08:00Gall Stones and the Metabolism/thyroid Connection<br />
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When I first discovered I had a gall stone in 2011, I was told by my doctor that women over 40 who have had multiple births often get them. The more I scoured the internet to discover if there were other contributing factors the more this was confirmed. But what is it about being female, being over forty and having had multiple children that puts us at higher risk? I don't have a conclusive answer but some things just keeping adding up and I wonder just how much the state of our metabolic health has to do with it.<br />
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<b>Women over 40 and have multiple births often diet to lose unwanted weight.</b><br />
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Dieting; in the traditional method of eating less and exercising more Matt Stone says in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Solving-Paleo-Equation-Nutrition-Exercise-ebook/dp/B00I4CTGII/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1391932449&sr=1-1&keywords=solving+the+paleo+equation">Solving the Paleo Equation</a> tends to <u>lower not raise</u> the metabolism. As I understand it, if metabolism lowers then thyroid function also lowers and the thyroid is part of the hormone triangle the keeps everything in balance. Once the balance it upset gall stones often form in the gall bladder.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"From my observations, the scenario is pretty straightforward. Stress lowers metabolism, and as metabolism gets progressively lower, stress hormones get progressively higher. We’re not talking small increases: Peaks in adrenaline can be thirty to forty times higher when metabolism is being suppressed through overzealous exercise, dieting, work stress, sleep loss, and other primary stressors."</span></i><br />
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Many of the stresses Matt mentions are common in woman over 40, here are a few more...the births themselves are a big source of stress on our bodies, demands of raising children, and accumulated toxic exposure from environmental sources like chemicals in food, EMF's, and cosmetics. Note what Matt has to say about EMF's (electromagnetic fields) from cell phones, Wifi, electronic equipment and Cell phone Towers. We have one on the roof of our apartment building three stories above us. not far enough away according to experts 500 feet minimum distance is needed to ensure safety form the electromagnetic field. Luckily for us we have plans already in place to move house to a place where there are no cell phone antennas on the roof.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"So what are these EMFs actually doing to our bodies to potentially cause so many different health issues? Here are the major processes discovered in the research: </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">Creating interference in normal electrical communication between cells. This could disrupt cellular function anywhere and everywhere within the body, negatively impacting sleep, hormone production, brain function, immune function, and healing (regenerative) functions. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">Reducing melatonin production. This neurohormone and antioxidant is critical to sleep and protecting cells from genetic damage. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">Creating a state of chronic inflammation in the body, including causing the release of proinflammatory substances like histamines and cytokines as part of a protective mechanism. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">Raising cortisol and adrenaline levels, affecting sleep, immunity (and therefore autoimmunity), cardiovascular function, premature aging, and more. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">Locking cell membranes into an inactive state, preventing the release of toxins and free radicals. This may lead to DNA damage and a reduced ability to heal, both thought to be early steps on the road to development of cancer. Causing calcium ion efflux from the cells. This may be linked to neurological degeneration, cancer, heart arrhythmias, and more. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">Elevating blood sugar and blood viscosity (that is, making thicker blood), both of which increase risk of cardiovascular disease."</span></i><br />
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Combine the stress load with less food due to dieting and the factors for gall stones increase yet again. If stress rises during our 40's then our metabolism lowers. A lower metabolism looks like hypothyroidism which can lead to many issues of ill health one being the development of gall stones. Is the answer to a gall stone present in the gall bladder to simply remove the gall bladder or is there a better approach that will set our entire body back into better overall health and prevent further gall stones?<br />
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There must be.<br />
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<b>Women who are over 40 naturally have a lower metabolic rate or thyroid issues.</b><br />
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The problem becomes even more compounded for women over 40 as our bodies naturally begin to slow down and our metabolism drops. <br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"While we cannot avoid at least some drop in metabolism as we age, at the very least we can minimize the rate at which it declines. Unfortunately, many accelerate this process with various restricted diets, weight loss attempts, excessive endurance exercise, and many other flawed approaches that slow down the resting metabolism."</span></i><br />
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So my hope is that getting my metabolism/thyroid working up to par once again will shift the imbalance of hormones, relieve my body of stress (move house) and allow things to function much better in the future. Some say that when this is achieved then the body will resolve the gall stone that does exist and the body will be no longer produce more gall stones in the liver or the gall bladder.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3509327289944353255.post-45859350026761600862014-02-02T23:48:00.002-08:002014-02-03T00:37:34.153-08:00Eat to Heat Update<div>
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I believe it is a good sign to feel soporific it means my my body is heating up.</div>
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To explain better how things are going I'll take you through the metabolism check list I complied from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Matt-Stone/e/B001KIM1IA/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1">Matt's Books</a>, <a href="http://www.livingthenourishedlife.com/">Elizabeth's book</a> and stuff I have been reading elsewhere. There are many little things that go on in the body which can or may be effected when the metabolism heats up but these are basic ones that are guiding me along.</div>
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Above you can see the temperature graph I have been keeping. I began eat to heat just before that big dip where I dropped down to 97.2 F and it took four days to get back up to 98.0 F . The dip was due to a workout I did not the foods I was eating to get my metabolism up. The other dip could have been a temp taking mistake, as I felt the same and who knows why I dropped so low.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"Your waking oral/rectal/vaginal/ear/forehead temperature should be at least 98 degrees F/36.7 C every day--higher temps are even better."</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">My average waking temperature is around 97.8 F low on most scales. Ideally I should at 98.6 and never go below 98.0. So no improvement here.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"Your body temperature should rise even higher after meals and during the day, to temperatures at or above 99F/37.2 C."</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">My temp does rise after meals to around 98.0 F so my food is heating me up a bit, but just a bit not enough yet. I even have found my temps are lower through out the day my lowest temps often being in the afternoon around 3PM. This is when I try to eat foods denser in calories and less liquids, but it often back fired in the beginning because I bloated after the morning, and lunch time meals and had no room in which to add in more food. Currently I am not bloating up and so I can eat my favorite afternoon food homemade coconut milk ice cream. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"While the thermometer is a useful tool, and indeed doing things with your diet and lifestyle that make your temperature rise usually make you feel and function better, it is but a tool. At the end of it all, who cares about a number on a thermometer? I certainly don't. The real objective with all of this is to get our bodies working their best."</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>"Your hands and feet should feel warm most of the time at normal room temperature."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Hoasty Toasty warm after the first few days of eating for heat, my feet no longer need socks and my hands are always warm. Before this I was always wearing socks all day and to bed t night.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>"You should experience a feeling of radiating plentiful body heat in general--dressing lighter and feeling as warm or warmer than those around you." </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">This I am! I hardly need an extra jacket when in the house and when I feel the cold winter air on me when I am outside it feels cold but does not penetrate and make me shiver through to the bone like it used to. I can feel as if I radiate heat from the inside out.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>"You should have fast-growing hair (head and body) and fingernails, with good shine to the hair and hardness to the nails."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">My nails feel stronger and less flakey but I have not noticed if my hair is growing faster or not as I have long hair and rarely get it cut. I have noticed that my hair is less dry and it looks and feels </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">shinier, thicker and healthier.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>"Your skin should be soft, smooth and dewy. You should have balanced oil production, with few blemishes, or mostly small ones. Your skin should be thick, elastic, and bounces back and you should have an even skin tone with little redness."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">My skin is definitely softer, moister and more even toned. I hardly ever have blemishes but I have noticed that my skin is less oily.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"You should have at least one, hopefully more, large bowel movements per day that do not require straining or the use of laxatives, magnesium or vitamin C overdosing, or other bowel-moving crutches--and also experience few other digestive troubles such as IBS, stomach bloating after meals, excessive gas production, heartburn..."</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">I began with these symptoms: gas, bloating, taking magnesium to loosen my bowels, and my BM's were not regular in that I would often skip a day not having had one oft and on. I stopped taking magnesium and began to eat for heat and at first things got worse, I was bloated more, and had running BM's and some heart burn oft and on, but after a bit things started to settle and now I have BM;s regularly and easily, not bloating which incidentally makes me feel thinner and my clothes fit better, and no heart burn and less gas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"You should urinate roughly once every four hours during the day and NONE at night, always with a consistent yellow color to it (no clear or pale urinations or strong sudden urges). Likewise, you should be able to down a glass of water without having to rush to the bathroom with crystal clear urine."</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Yippppe Yahoo on this one, I have had for two years or so inconstancy which has completely resolved since I started eating for heat. No more "I have to get to the bathroom NOW!" trips just to tinkle a shot glass of liquid that was perfectly clear. I used to think the clear part was good but the have to go now was a pain as you can imagine.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">"High stress hormones divert blood flow away from your digestive system and also shut down your immune system, which can lead to poor digestion and bacterial </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">imbalances."</span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">About a week into the eat for heat where I had a few days where I was not at all bloated and my digestive track felt like someone had unclogged a pipe, everything just started to work. I had several BM's and I ate food like there was no tomorrow. In one day I ate four regular meals, and lots of snacks in between and at 9PM I was till hungry and had to go to bed hungry as I was so tired of chewing and eating. I woke early the next day and felt like I my tanks were all filled up for the first time in a long time. I have not binged like that again, but I continue to have that filled up feeling.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>"As you heal your metabolism, you can typically handle a wider variety of foods, but in the beginning it may help to reduce potentially irritating foods. Instead, focus on foods that provide nutrients and energy in an easy to digest form."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">I am still unable to eat meats, dairy, eggs and animal fats. I am however reintroducing white processed sugar into some snacks where they work better than the whole sugars so the snacks are tastier. I have been a low carb eater for over 7 years always attempting to make things more complex to keep my reactive hypoglycemia in check. I have been eating lots of simple carbs those past few weeks and though I have had some head aches, which cleared up soon and foggy brain which continues but the overall effect has been increased energy, and the wonderful soporific effect and the ability to sleep through the night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>"You should be able to sleep through the night at least eight hours solid with no wake ups."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Before eating for heat I was taking melatonin each night to get to sleep. I would sleep well until about 2-4AM then be awake never dreaming or sleeping deeply until 6AM when I usually got up if I did not get up in the middle of the night to get some work done. So I have stopped taking melatonin, I sleep through until 4am usually and can easily fall back to sleep and get in a few more dreams before I awake again at 6Am or 7AM. I am getting 10-11 hours of good rest now each night and upon waking I feel so much better rested and able to handle another day. Yiippppeee!</span></span></div>
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<i>"The Flopsy Bunnies simply stuffed lettuces. By degrees, one after another, they were overcome with slumber, and lay down in the mown grass."</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"If you are a female you should have a timely menstrual cycle with normal flow and very few if any symptoms of PMS, cramping, bloating, and other common complications. "</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Before eat to heat I had a regular 28 day cycle with a little mood swing, well maybe a big mood swing ask my husband and my three sons, but now I have missed a cycle so this is still unresolved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>"If you are a male you should have very full erections and good sex drive. Females should also feel pretty frisky and have good vaginal lubrication with strong sexual urges, particularly around the time of ovulation"</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>"Extreme moods and energy levels on either end of the spectrum are signs of a stressed metabolism. Ideally your energy levels should be consistent through out the day, similarly mood swings should be reasonable. Sad things make you sad but they do not make you depressed and irritating things might get on your nerves but they do not leave you raging mad."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">This is where the soporific effect really has helped me. I am more docile, and the irritating things seem to bounce off rather than like and arrow penetrate into my heart and make me raging mad. I am calm, I enjoy my loud boys more and my life feels good all around. I am more happy and content. My energy is also steady and the lull I used to have in the afternoon has evened out. </span></span></div>
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From my last post <a href="http://gutngallstone.blogspot.com/2014/01/decisions-to-eat-for-heat-or-no.html">Decisions to Eat for Heat or No?</a> here is what Matt says in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BEJOSFY/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00BEJOSFY&linkCode=as2&tag=180degr-20">Diet Recover 2</a> to expect when you start out, I have underlined all the things that I did experience:<br />
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">“As you start out, remember that you are challenging your metabolism, your glucose metabolism, your digestion, and more. This does not feel good!!! <u>Headaches</u>, skin breakouts, <u>brain fog</u>, <u>severe drowsiness after meals, out-of-control hunger</u> – particularly if you are coming off of a low-carb diet, <u>heartburn </u>and other digestive glitches – these are all normal in the first week or two. But just when you think you are poisoning yourself with all this food something pretty cool happens. You start to notice improvements in how your body handles everything. Instead of running from all these problem foods and big, heavy meals you experience your body rising to the challenge, making use of the tools you’ve given it, and functioning much, much better. "</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">I am feeling better overall....so I am going to continue follow my </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">metabolism and see where it leads me.</span></span><br />
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I know I need to do something about my low metabolic rate/hypothyroidism, it could be a great help to my health over all. It could be why I wake up at 3am every morning and never get back to sleep. And why I am always tired, have no energy, or stamina. It could be why when I exercise I get sick, or need extra rest, like four to five days, the first two mostly in bed from exhaustion, and needing lots more food constantly until the energy comes back. It could be why I have thick skin, and extra weight around my middle. Why my digestion is slow. Why I have constipation. Perhaps raising my metabolic rate could give my adrenal glands a break and allow my thyroid to work normally, that would effect a multitude of things not to mention my gallstone. gallstones are said to be caused by an imbalance in the hormones, low thyroid does that. It could be taxing my immune system which could explain why I have become sensitive to meat, dairy, eggs and animal fats. </div>
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I am already 40 lbs. overweight and I already feel uncomfortable with that extra weight, why would I want to add more weight to that? Would I have any clothes to wear if I did this?<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"When your temperature is below normal, consider yourself primed for some fat gain. From the time temperature is low until the time it reaches the ideal, you are much more likely to gain fat. But it’s not all so simple and cut and dry as to think that you will just blimp up doing this. There’s a lot more going on underneath the surface."</span></i><br />
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But it's not all bad....<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"So, at the start you’ll gain weight quickly, then it will slow, and then it will stop altogether. You might only gain weight for two weeks. You might gain weight for several months – maybe 15 pounds the first month, 10 pounds the second, 5 pounds in the third, and then finally none by the fourth month. I recommend just getting the weight gaining part over with. Gaining fat is horrifying. When you stop gaining weight, it’s quite a relief and you can focus more on completing your recovery. I call the point of reaching zero fat gain eating enormous quantities of even the most palatable and “fattening” food as becoming “fat-proof.” Fat-proofing yourself is a very important first step. It’s also really important to take this process to completion. At first you gain weight around the abdomen, but then you fill out in the rest of your body – adding more subcutaneous fat, which is generally believed to be highly protective and actually healthy. Meanwhile, more and more of your weight gain consists of restored organ mass, bone mass, muscle mass, and glycogen storage. In other words, the LAST 10 pounds you may gain during recovery are the most important pounds. Those pounds restore you to full capacity and also improve how your body looks aesthetically."</span></i><br />
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But there is another option, I could always try Armour (desiccated thyroid gland) it would be good for the thyroid giving it a blue print with which to rebuild, and best of all it wouldn't add extra pounds I don't want. I wouldn't have to tweak my diet and think about food all the time it could be easy. It would however cost more money in the end, unless that is I have to buy new clothes to drape over my newly enlarged body.<br />
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Seems like an easy decision for the Armour, but I am unable to buy it for about 4-5 months so perhaps I should just go for the Matt Stone get fat to get healthy approach. I have four or so months to play around with it. I can always take the weight off later once my metabolism is normal again. I can do both, one first and then the other. I think I'll do that, I think I'll give Matt's eat for heat ideas a try then see about the Armour.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"Remember, the objective isn’t to find the safe foods that keep you from having digestive problems. Take that route and you’ll eventually whittle your diet down to practically nothing. Rather, the objective is to improve your digestive abilities, and allow your digestive tract to adjust to eating pretty much anything and everything."</span></i><br />
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LIQUIDS<br />
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<li>Drink only when thirsty.</li>
<li>Never drink just water, add salt and or sugar. Season to taste.</li>
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FOOD<br />
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<li>Eat when I am hungry no matter when that is.</li>
<li>Eat what my body is craving and try not to think about eating to raise metabolism.</li>
<li>Listen to my body.</li>
<li>Eat foods that warm up the metabolism when My body craves them.</li>
<li>Stick with my Nourishing Traditions and food allergy fence, so only whole foods prepared in the NT way. </li>
<li>Warming foods I can eat: rice milk, hemp milk, coconut milk yoghurt, coconut milk ice cream, coconut milk in sauces and dosas, coconut milk sour cream salted with herbs, hot coconut milk, coconut milk rice pudding, coconut palm sugar, all natural sugars like honey, rapadura and dates syrup, dates, chocolate, white chocolate, sea food in coconut oil like fried shrimp, or fish in peanut sauce, brown and white rice, grains all kinds soaked and or sprouted, corn, popcorn, polenta, grits, oats, quinoa, amaranth, dry cereal, sea salt, dried fruits, potatoes, gelatin, dried fruit of any kind, vegan desserts, sorbets, salted macadamia nuts, hummus, legumes, very sweet fruits like bananas, papaya, mango, pineapple, any fruit that has been cooked in coconut oil and sugar added, yams, and sweet potatoes.</li>
<li>Cooling foods: raw and cooked vegetables, juices, liquids.</li>
<li>Foods to avoid because the suppress the thyroid: all nuts except macadamia nuts, kale, cabbage, cauliflower all the crucifers when uncooked, seeds, vegetable oils, soy milk.</li>
<li>Eat balanced meals of salty/sweet, warm/cool, carbs/protein/fats.</li>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"When you go from being in a highly-stressed, underfed state to a de-stressed, overfed state, the adrenal glands pretty much go on vacation. You know how you feel after a big Thanksgiving feast? Your eyelids feel like they weigh a thousand pounds. You feel warm and cozy and tingly all over. All you want to do is pass out into a coma-like slumber. There’s a good chance that you will spend a lot of time in this semi-comatose state for many weeks. Maybe even a whole month. If you are recovering from something really severe – like a major eating disorder, this phase can last much longer. Like a whole frickin’ year. Don’t beat yourself up for feeling utterly unproductive or freak out and think there’s something wrong because you’re not your former upbeat, energetic self. Spend some time in this state and welcome it openly. It’s a healing place to be."</span></i></div>
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<li>Work out gently and only when fully recovered form the last work out, and keep to my habit of not sitting for long periods of time and walking when I can.</li>
<li>Sleep when I need it.</li>
<li>Get to bed early so I can sleep longer.</li>
<li>Sleep through the night, use the salt and coconut sugar mix during the 2-3 am times to get back to sleep.</li>
<li>Let extra stresses go, meaning letting go of some projects I want to continue so I can manage easily the have to's in my life like cooking and teaching school.</li>
<li>Sit in the winter sun when possible.</li>
<li>Let go of reaching a high metabolism.</li>
<li>Relax with where I am now and enjoy the days as I heal.</li>
<li>Listen to my body.</li>
<li>Consider God's faithfulness and kindness to me.</li>
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<li>Take my temperature 2 or 3 times during the day at 9AM, noon or 3 PM, plot on the graph.</li>
<li>Take my blood pressure and pulse once a day</li>
<li>Record any interesting symptoms or changes</li>
<li>Make mental notes about bio feedback: cold hands and feet, feeling warm all over, urine color and frequency of having to go, hows the eczema on my face, hows my hair, sleep patterns, am I waking at 2-4AM and getting back to sleep, Am i not waking at all between 2-4AM, am I sleeping soundly and dreaming, is my mood good? How is my energy.</li>
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So I'm off to eat to heat but to really get the most out of this plan I need to let the goal go as well. I have made adjustments to see if that raises my temperatures and helps my thyroid but listening to my body is my main objective.<br />
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Matt lists some things in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Diet-Recovery-Restoring-Metabolism-Exercise-ebook/dp/B00BEJOSFY">Diet Recovery 2</a> that I can happen to my person as I begin to eat more of the foods that increase metabolism and to sleep more and get more rest:<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">“As you start out, remember that you are challenging your metabolism, your glucose metabolism, your digestion, and more. This does not feel good!!! Headaches, skin breakouts, brain fog, severe drowsiness after meals, out-of-control hunger – particularly if you are coming off of a low-carb diet, heartburn and other digestive glitches – these are all normal in the first week or two. But just when you think you are poisoning yourself with all this food something pretty cool happens. You start to notice improvements in how your body handles everything. Instead of running from all these problem foods and big, heavy meals you experience your body rising to the challenge, making use of the tools you’ve given it, and functioning much, much better. "</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"So be prepared to be challenged and have to muster up some resilience and persistence. This is not all fun and games. It’s like trying to get back in shape after years of couch surfing. You get tired. You get sore. You ache. <u>But it makes you stronger. You’ll see.</u>”</span></i><br />
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Yes, we'll see. :)<br />
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NOTE: all quote from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Diet-Recovery-Restoring-Metabolism-Exercise-ebook/dp/B00BEJOSFY/ref=la_B001KIM1IA_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1390743200&sr=1-3">Diet Recovery 2 by Matt Stone</a><br />
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Why am I concerned about raising my metabolic rate? Honestly, because I long to be able to do this (see above picture) and not get hurt, nor feel fatigued and enjoy it too. Doesn't that look like fun! In addition, the purpose of this blog is to discover how to remedy my digestive issues, get rid of my gall stone without surgery and that has led me to understanding more of how a low metabolism could be effecting these two heath issues and all the side issues that go along with them. I am reading a lot of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Matt-Stone/e/B001KIM1IA">Matt Stone's books</a> because he found metabolism to be key to many of life's ills and I am curious why that is and how to deal with it. Matt says in His<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Diet-Recovery-Restoring-Metabolism-Exercise-ebook/dp/B00BEJOSFY/ref=la_B001KIM1IA_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1390627865&sr=1-3"> book Diet Recovery 2</a>...<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"In short, my research has led me down one consistent path. <u>Cellular energy production</u> – what one could call “the metabolism” or “metabolic rate” is central or highly-connected to every known health problem. While raising the metabolism isn’t a cure-all for everything, there is no doubt in my mind that with any health problem,<u> the first line of action in overcoming it is getting the metabolism up closer to its ideal range.</u> <u>More importantly, optimizing and guarding the metabolism is the key to preventing illness of all kinds and living life with the maximum number of optimally-functional and disease-free years.</u>"</span></i><br />
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"Here is Henry Bieler’s wonderful description of what a healthy person functions like – and ultimately what all diet and lifestyle interventions should aim to inch someone closer toward… </div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>“<u>The physical energy of the adrenal type is seemingly inexhaustible</u>, as is the nervous response of the sympathetic system, a result of perfect oxidation of phosphorous in the nerve tissue. Oxidation of carbon in the muscular system gives the adrenal type his great warmth. Thus, the temperature of his body is scarcely ever below 98.8, with hands and feet always pleasantly warm. <u>As digestion and detoxication of food poisons depend greatly upon oxidation in the liver and intestines, it follows that the typical adrenal type, with his perfect oxidation, has thorough digestion.</u> In fact, he may and often does boast that he can eat any and all kinds of food without discomfort. The exogenous uric acid products as well as the indoxyl compounds are completely detoxicated in the liver, do not accumulate in the blood, nor are they found in the urine.” </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>“The skeletal muscles are well developed and have splendid tone. <u>Fatigue is practically unknown to the adrenal type. </u> His muscular endurance is spectacular. And the perfect tone of the involuntary muscles is evidenced by complete and rapid peristalsis, resulting in several bowel evacuations daily. <u>He can dine on the most impossible food combinations imaginable with no evil results…” </u></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>“The quality of the blood is characteristic. A slight to marked polycythemia (more red cells than usual) occurs; leucopenia, or abnormal white cell count on the low side, is never noted. The blood, which is of a rich, red color, clots quickly. Fatal hemorrhage seldom occurs. The immunity against bacterial invasion is spectacular. <u>The typical adrenal type hardly ever becomes infected</u>, even with venereal diseases…” </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>“A member of the adrenal-type group has a <u>phlegmatic disposition – easygoing, jolly, slow to anger, never bothered with insomnia, </u>fear or “cold feet.” He will often go out of his way to avoid a quarrel. Customarily, he has a wide circle of friends because he is warm-hearted and surrounded by an ‘aura’ of kindly sympathy.” </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><i> “He never worries… <u>His digestion is good and he is seldom constipated.</u> It is possible for him to stand more treatments, operations and even more lung hemorrhages than any other type of patient. He is the patient most often discharged as arrested or cured. All the treatment necessary for his recovery is supplied by bed rest and fresh air.”</i></span></div>
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To this long list of very accurate characteristics, you could add… </div>
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Healthy sex drive, sexual functionality, and high fertility – both in men and women </div>
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Soft, moist skin – including the hands and lower legs which become dry most easily </div>
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Rapid wound healing </div>
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<u>Infrequent need to urinate, with a rich yellow color even after consuming large amounts of liquid</u></div>
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Strong, white teeth resistant to decay or sensitivity even consuming large amounts of sweets and rarely brushing </div>
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Regular menstrual cycle with no discomforts, cramps or other symptoms, or PMS</div>
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Fast growing hair and fingernails</div>
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<u>Steady blood sugar, with minimal spikes after meals even with the consumption of rapidly-absorbed carbohydrates </u></div>
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Ability to go long periods without food without any noticeable discomforts, mood changes, energy changes, etc. </div>
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Moist mouth with abundant saliva even after hours without fluids, and nice pink hue to the tongue </div>
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There are many more, some that I’m aware of and many that I have yet to discover. But that is a good overview of what life with an ideal metabolism should feel like it is a picture of health that is rapidly becoming obsolete.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">All Quotes in this post come from: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Diet-Recovery-Restoring-Metabolism-Exercise-ebook/dp/B00BEJOSFY">Stone, Matt (2013-11-24). Diet Recovery 2: Restoring Mind and Metabolism from Dieting, Weight Loss, Exercise, and Healthy Food (p. 26). Archangel Ink. Kindle Edition. </a></span><br />
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Others who have applied Diet Revcovery to their lives and the stories of how they did it:<br />
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<a href="http://criticalmas.com/2013/03/diet-recovery-2-and-the-turn-up-the-heat-experiment/">Critical Mass: Michael Allen Smith's Website</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cheeseslave.com/matt-stones-diet-recovery-my-experience/">The Cheese Slave: A Mother and Village Green Network founder</a><br />
<a href="http://butterbeliever.com/how-to-nourish-your-metabolism/">Butter Believer:</a> Writes here about Nourished Metabolism by Elizabeth which is linked on my side bar, butter believer also wrote the book on the Sleep solution which I also have on my side bar. Both books rely on the same basic info found in Matt Stone's books.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3509327289944353255.post-85142434857115193072014-01-24T01:52:00.001-08:002014-01-24T21:15:16.429-08:00Rest and Refeed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In my last post, <a href="http://gutngallstone.blogspot.com/2014/01/turn-ahead.html">turn ahead</a>, I wrote about having read Matt Stone's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Heat-Metabolic-Approach-Drink-ebook/dp/B00AGBH7FO">Eat for Heat,</a> which started me thinking about how hypothyroidism is very similar to what he is writing about metabolism. I can see from my temperature plotting that I am indeed not normal, I am low and need to in some way find a way to have a normal basal temperature of 98.6 F or near that. Matt is offering some different ideas of how I might do this without thyroid medication or perhaps without the use of Armour, a desiccated thyroid gland supplement. Matt is suggesting I eat for heat.<br />
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His ideas are not conventional and not even what most health conscious people would advise, however, I find that there is a ring of truth to his ideas and I am curious to test them out. He recommends that if you find your temperatures below 98.6 F then you are needing some <u>rest and refeeding </u>because your metabolism if low.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"I wouldn’t just recommend getting some good sleep at first, but getting an abnormal amount of sleep. 10 hours will heal you much more quickly than 8. Naps are great too unless you find them impairing your sleep at night."</span></i></div>
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You need to rest from your exercise routines, from stresses in your life, from perfectionism. Despite what we have been told Matt says that his research shows that exercise actually lowers your metabolism because it causes a stress on the body. The only exercise he recommends is walking but not very rigorously. This is only while you are refeeding mind you for once your metabolism is to 98.6 and you are feeling great again then exercise is great. One key I learned from Matt was that whether you are just beginning to exercise or are in great shape and exercising, form either place or metabolic health, your body gets the most out of a workout when you let it fully recover before you work out again.<br />
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The best way to rest is to sleep as much as your body wants to. He says that 10-12 hours is not too much and taking naps and simply lying around is just what you need to let your metabolic rate rise.<br />
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Removing stress is another way to increase your metabolism. This can be quite varied because we are all different and have different issues, but for me it is doing fewer things relieves me of much of my stress. I learned a little song recently from the movie Brother Sun Sister Moon that reminds me of this daily, it goes like this:<br />
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If you want to live life free, take your time go slowly,<br />
do few things but do them well,<br />
heart felt work grow purely,<br />
day by day<br />
stone by stone you'll know heaven's glory<br />
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Another way I have ben removing stress is to clean up the chemical exposures in my home and personal products. I have been making more of my own personal products like shampoo and conditioner, deodorant, toothpaste etc. There is a catch to this however and that is that doing it all yourself can also be stressful. I try to keep that in balance while I love to make things and create it needs to not be too much work or again I have more stress.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"Other ways that you can achieve this “spa vacation” lifestyle during the healing process are encouraged. Massages, calming music, meditation, light stretching, warm baths, sunbathing, curious walks in a serene outdoor setting, relaxed breathing, raging fires in your fireplace, lounging around in comfortable clothes, snuggling, laying down and resting when you get the chance, reading something (besides health and nutrition books) – whatever sounds like it would make your whole body relax and enter that state where your eyes are heavy and mind is calm is great."</span></i></div>
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I have to remind myself as I am implementing these sorts of things that it is not a new way of life that I am developing with these new habits, it is simply a change of pace <u>for a while</u> to let my body catch up. Once my metabolic rate is again normal or high I will likely sleep less, and do more but for now I am like the little animal who is hurt ducking into the cave to rest and refeed until I am ready to go live life fully again.<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>"In perhaps an ironic way, the lower your metabolic rate, the more therapeutic the “junk” foods really are. What people consider to be pleasure foods are things rich in fat and carbohydrates in a very soft, digestible, refined, and calorie-dense package with a low water content. We’ll talk more about the significance of those qualities later. And, as you heal with foods that wouldn’t appear on any health guru’s list of approved foods, you later graduate to eating a diet much closer to what is considered to be the quintessential “healthy diet.” And you won’t gravitate to a healthy diet through iron will or anything like that either. You’ll just come to prefer eating less calorie-dense foods once your body no longer needs a surplus of calories to do its repair work."</i></span></div>
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You may need to refeed yourself to regain energy and that means you may need to eat the dreaded carbs, salt, saturated fats, and maybe even to eat the SAD diet (standard American diet) for a while until your metabolic rate has risen to normal (98.6 F). To regain metabolic health he gives liberty to eat what you want, when you want, how much you want.<br />
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I find this bit of his advice to be very helpful and intuitively I think it makes the most sense. Though without the logic to back it up I have been following my intuition furtively thinking I was not disciplined enough to eat more disciplined puritanical diet and life style. With the rational now behind me reminding me why food that gives energy like dates, sugar, coconut milk, butter, ice cream, bread, pasta and salt is not hurting my chances of getting back into living a full life again, but is actually the very thing to get me on that road and keep me there long term is peace and freedom and hope.<br />
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I want to eat more croissants, more cheese, more sweet things and more salty pretzels but now I know there is good reason for this want in my body and now I know why I do not need to eat them with a furtive glance, gobbling it up quick before anyone sees it. Greasy fatty foods like pizza, steak, hamburgers and sausage not to mention a well cooked egg or french fries fried in lard of coconut oil really sound good and are good for me. I made my own apple fritter doughnuts this fall and cooked them in pure coconut oil and it was just what my body wanted as I renew my energy reserves.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"This process (rest and refeeding) is all about surplus calories for repair work. Gwyneth Olwyn of www.youreatopia.com, a site specializing in recovering from restrictive eating patterns of varying degrees of severity, summed it up well… </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">“Recovery is the opposite process of dieting. With dieting you create a calorie deficit so that your body makes up the difference by using energy stores in fat, bone, muscles and major organs. But with recovery, you have to provide not only enough energy to replenish fat tissue, but also even more energy is required to reverse pervasive physiological damage. "</span></i><br />
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I have been eating according to my hunger for about a year now but within a Nourishing Traditions and food allergy fence (I cannot eat meat, animal fats, dairy or eggs) but I may need to allow myself to take frequent trips beyond that fence during this rest and refeeding stage. I want to lose my the extra 40 lbs. but more than that I want to live well and have energy. SO my first priority is shifting to getting my energy back, my metabolism up and then the weight can come off.<br />
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In fact I have been letting my body decide what I eat since I heard Dr. Natasha McBride say much the same thing when she explained the GAPS diet. Her idea was that the body knows what it needs so it will tell you via cravings, or hungers just what you are to give it and when. First thing after I wake in the morning I begin to listen to my body to know just what to eat that day, if it is bread as it was yesterday I make the kind of bread that sounds the most delicious whether it is a soft delicately crumbed bread or a hard sourdough bread.<br />
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Rarely do I want something outside the fence but if I do, like when I was walking on the beach all morning in the sun and found that at lunch there wasn't a kombucha on the menu where we ate lunch so I really wanted to drink 7-Up and it tasted great, revived me and I had no ill effects from the sugar, in fact it gave my body the energy to needed after my mornings doings which used up the little reserves I had saved up. The body knows best, it has served me well in maintaining a steady weight up till now but my energy and other symptoms of a low metabolic rate has me thinking I might just want to up the amount of calories I eat by letting myself eat anything that sounds good until I can get my metabolism to normal again.<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>"I started referring to the protocol as “The High Everything Diet (HED).” Yeah, names are fun and acronyms are even better. I mean, there’s a real shortage of acronyms out there. I have felt compelled over the years to add to the pool. But the HED was as the name implies, high in everything. In a world obsessed with low-calorie, low-carb, low-fat, low-this, and low-that – the concept here was pretty obvious. Don’t restrict anything. Eat it all. Eat all the carbs, fat, and protein you want. Sure, you’ll have your favorites and tilt the balance a little one way or another (I recommend tilting it towards carbs if possible, but I think, really, that what’s most therapeutic is tilting it in the other direction in relation to where you have been on your most recent diet escapades), but don’t limit or restrict. Eat salt. And sweets. And meats. And veggies. Root vegetables. Grains. Dairy products. Eat all the things you could ever want. <u>Fill all those tanks, especially the ones that you have left empty in your dieting career. And most of all, eat a lot of calories. </u> Some people I’m discovering, still don’t succeed when they just eat as much as they want, or even eat a little bit more than they want. With a really low metabolism, and with a history of eating disorders, calorieality is often skewed."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">ALL quotes in this post are from: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Diet-Recovery-Restoring-Metabolism-Exercise-ebook/dp/B00BEJOSFY">Stone, Matt (2013-11-24). Diet Recovery 2: Restoring Mind and Metabolism from Dieting, Weight Loss, Exercise, and Healthy Food. Archangel Ink. Kindle Edition. </a></span><br />
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This past week and a half I have been plotting my temperatures and drinking a salt water solution to do a sort of pre-wash on my kidneys. I am still plotting my temperature but I am no longer drinking the salt water solution.<br />
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The salt water solution contained:<br />
90 oz. of mineral rich water we filter ourselves.<br />
4 T fresh squeezed lime juice<br />
1 1/2 t sea salt<br />
1/2 t. green stevia<br />
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I am taking a 90 degree turn in regards to my protocol because of Matt Stone's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Heat-Metabolic-Approach-Drink-ebook/dp/B00AGBH7FO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390199684&sr=8-1&keywords=eat+for+heat+kindle">Eat for Heat</a> and what I discovered when I started drinking so much water. You have to realized that the 90 oz. of water is half my body weight in oz. and I had not been drinking this before. I still drank the fermented beverages (kvass. kombucha, etc) at meal times and rarely prior to this trial did I drink between meals, so it was a lot more water than my body was used to, and as I learned needed.<br />
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I mixed up two 45 oz. jars of this salt water solution to drink between 9am-noon and from 2pm-5pm, that way I would have a good chance of getting the water out of my digestive system before I ate and then my HCl would not be diluted. My HCL is low as it is. SO I began in good faith....little did I guess what would happen.<br />
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At first I noticed good things happening, I peed less often, I felt more balanced mentally and emotionally, and my temperature readings showed that my adrenals were leveling out. These were not the things I had done the salt water cure for, I was aiming at flushing out the kidney's thus diluting the glass like crystals that form there that are supposedly causing my lower back to be perpetually weak. (this may not be so but it is worth the try. the flush that Daniel Forsyth used on his journey and that did heal him of chronic lower back pain was an herbal flush) But these other good side effects of rehydration I was thinking was a good sign whether or not the kidney's and my lower back were being helped just yet or not.<br />
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But a few days later and I noticed that my hair was drier, stringy and limp. The eczema on my face became worse than it had been in a long time. I had spots of it around where my nose meets my face, by my mouth, and along my hair line, to boot I had very bad dandruff and an itchy scalp. and oddly I was having trouble with constipation which I thought would have been much better by rehydrating. I was puzzled by these symptoms because I had read that dandruff is caused by dehydration and there was no chance I was dehydrated I drank upwards of 90 oz. of water a day, it is winter thus cold and I am not exercising rigorously. So what was up? I also began to bloat in the upper tummy region and be cold all the time especially in my hands and feet. But after all it is winter, the weather must have dropped in temperature so I'll take more hot baths and snuggle up in my alpaca wool sweaters and wear my alpaca wool socks more during the day. Odd though when my grade school aged boys and my dh are brandishing soccer shorts only no shirts and sleeping without blankets at night. Hmmmm.<br />
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I happened upon a favorable link to Matt Stone's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Heat-Metabolic-Approach-Drink-ebook/dp/B00AGBH7FO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390199684&sr=8-1&keywords=eat+for+heat+kindle">Eat for Heat</a> and as it was only $2.99 on kindle so I bought it, what could it hurt. Where I <a href="http://www.savorylotus.com/2013/07/15/reason-why-i-drink-salt-water-sole/">found the link </a>he was said to know about low metabolism (or hypothyroidism), salt and what...He was telling people to not drink so much water. I was intrigued and dove into his book with interest. I was sure I was ok doing what I was doing because I was not drinking filtered dead water only, I was drinking mineral rich water with added electrolytes and salt.<br />
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But, I was wrong. The research Matt Stone had been doing showed that drinking when you are not thirsty is not healthy. In fact my dry hair, eczema, and dandruff, the cold hands and feet plus a few other things I learned were all caused by diluting the extra cellular fluid that makes up the bodies 98% water which in lowered my metabolism and caused these symptoms. Whoa! could what Matt dug up be true? I wasn't sure but I kept reading and applying some of his ideas and I think he has found some thing worth trying out. Thus my 90 degree turn off of water and back to listening to my intuition and my bodies own voice, bio feedback.<br />
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You see the dry hair, eczema, cold hands and feet plus the constipation, insomnia and other hypothyroid symptoms are bio feedback or the body telling me I am not working with it. So I started to listen, I stopped drinking the 90 oz. of water a day. Instead I have been learning how to recognize bio feedback, track it with my temperature chart as I was doing before and then how to tweak a few things to keep it steady. I'll write more about the tweaking in the next post. But to date I am seeing the symptoms I mentioned above disappear and I have hopes I can turn around my low thyroid/metoabolism simply by eating to heat.<br />
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NOTE: Matt Stone is not the only one out there writing about helping the metabolism he has inspired Elizabeth Walling with the ideas he dug up and she has thus written The <a href="http://www.livingthenourishedlife.com/">Nourished Metabolism</a> which can be purchased by clicking on the image of her book on my side bar.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3509327289944353255.post-72462207792680573362014-01-12T22:50:00.001-08:002014-01-12T22:50:40.984-08:00The Adrenal Connection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In <a href="http://gutngallstone.blogspot.com/2014/01/your-thyroid-and-amalgam-poisoning.html">this post</a> at the way bottom I wrote,<br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mercury-Diaries-Daniel-Forsyth-ebook/dp/B009V327IK">Daniel</a> wrote that he had read somewhere (Dr. Peatfield's book Y<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Your-Thyroid-How-Keep-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00AKF900G/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389592801&sr=1-1&keywords=your+thyroid+and+how+to+keep+it+healthy">our Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy</a>) that if your thyroid and your adrenals are working under par then you <u>should begin strengthening the adrenals first</u>. He likened the thyroid to the gas pedal of a car and the adrenals to the engine in a car. If you press down hard on the gas pedal (thyroid) you could blow your engine (adrenals). So</span><u style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> always</u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> begin FIRST by </span><u style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">strengthening the adrenals</u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> then strengthen the thyroid."</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">I know now <u>where</u> Daniel read about this thyroid adrenal connection I am learning more about it and it is so very practical and helpful to understand the working of a system rather than the function of the organ all by itself. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Your-Thyroid-How-Keep-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00AKF900G/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389592801&sr=1-1&keywords=your+thyroid+and+how+to+keep+it+healthy">Dr. Peatfield</a> says this about the connection between the two glands,</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"We must now consider the adrenal connection to hypothyroidism. The first point to make is a repetition of what I said earlier: if thyroid hormone is not being produced as it should, nothing works properly – including of course the adrenal glands. And this situation is compounded by the fact that low thyroid output is a stress inducing situation. To enable the system to cope with low thyroid output, the adrenals are obliged to produce an increased level of cortisol. This may work well, for a considerable period of time, if the thyroid deficiency isn’t too bad. But it slowly worsens and the adrenals are called upon to further compensate for the stress this produces. Eventually, of course, the adrenals begin to cope less well; and the continued strain causes adrenal exhaustion. The syndrome of low adrenal reserve is now present."</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Durrant-Peatfield, Barry (2012-10-04). Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy: Second edition of The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Avoid It (Kindle Locations 1603-1609). Hammersmith Books Limited. Kindle Edition.</span> </span><br />
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To make up for the thyroid's poor performance the adrenals get extra work and could become overloaded. If the overloaded adrenals are also subjected to a bad diet, environmental toxins, prolonged stress etc. then they will not be able to keep up with the extra of work of support a low thyroid and then this happens.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"We saw earlier that the thyroid hormones have to be processed in the body to work; the chief one, thyroxine (T4) has to be converted into the active thyroid hormone tri-iodothyronine (T3), under the action of the 5’-deiodinase enzymes. With a low adrenal reserve this reaction doesn’t proceed as it should, and the body may become toxic with unused and unusable T4. The problem doesn’t end there; the T3 has to be taken up by the receptors within the cell wall, to be passed into the cell. This uptake is degraded in adrenal insufficiency; the receptors become dormant or may disappear or may become resistant. In this situation, even if T3 is available, the system can become toxic if it cannot be used properly. You can see how desperately important the adrenal glands are, and equally how important it is to provide adrenal support when low adrenal reserve is present. "</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;">Durrant-Peatfield, Barry (2012-10-04). Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy: Second edition of The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Avoid It (Kindle Locations 1615-1621). Hammersmith Books Limited. Kindle Edition. </span><br />
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Ideally at this point the hypothyroid patient should be given something (like desiccate adrenals) to support the over worked adrenals which gives these hardworking glands the building blocks to do the work asked of it. In addition to that, a good look at ones diet, toxic load from the environment and stress levels etc. will relieve the adrenals from their toxic load. Once the adrenals are thriving again THEN thyroid help can be administered. By using the metabolic temperature chart and by monitoring your pulse (see more about this below) it is easy to see how your body is responding to the dose of thyroid supplement (like desiccated thyroid glands) you are giving it. However if you fail to monitor it and rely only upon blood tests the result may be this,<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"Thousands of people suffering from hypothyroidism are never quite well since, using the blood tests as a guide only, the endocrinologists with few exceptions oblige their patients to lurch from one dose to another. The patients may have windows of feeling better, but may feel either under-active, or toxic for much of the time. The great sadness is that when they say to their doctor, ‘Look, I really don’t feel right,’, they will be told, since the blood tests show that they are at the correct levels, they must therefore be right and perfectly well – whatever they may say. The patient is then probably offered Prozac (or other antidepressant), or counselling, or becomes labelled a ‘heart-sink’ patient, and you can see now why the blood tests may be completely misleading. If the thyroid supplementation isn’t being used properly and is not being processed into the tissues, it will cause the blood levels to be normal, or even raised. In this situation, which is likely to affect all hypothyroid sufferers sooner or later, if this is not taken account of the patient will never be well. Along with a number of other workers in this field, I have pointed this out many times to the deaf ears of the establishment."</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;">Durrant-Peatfield, Barry (2012-10-04). Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy: Second edition of The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Avoid It (Kindle Locations 1624-1632). Hammersmith Books Limited. Kindle Edition. </span><br />
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If one makes the mistake of treating the thyroid first Dr. Peatfield has a few suggestions to rectify the situation and get the bodies metabolism back on track.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"A problem often arises when those of us with low thyroid seek advice, and it becomes clear that low adrenal reserve is at least half the problem. The amount of thyroid hormone replacement, usually thyroxine, has been increased, either with very little benefit, or actually worsening the situation. If the adrenal support is then given, it has the effect of so much improving thyroid uptake and processing, that in a day or so, you actually become truly thyrotoxic, with palpitations, tremor, even a temperature. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">To deal with this situation low cunning is needed. The thyroxine must be stopped for 5-10 days to allow it to run down somewhat. (Remember that it has an eight day half life in the system, so this can be quite a slow process.) After these few days, natural adrenal glandular support is introduced, at low dose – even half a tablet – and after a few days without any problems of apparent overdose, the adrenal support can then be increased to one, and later more if required. At some point, usually within a week, the thyroid hormone can be restarted at half the original dose. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">All the time you have to monitor pulse and temperature, on a daily basis, morning and evening, and then be prepared to adjust the thyroid hormone dose up or down as seems necessary. A rapid rise of pulse, perhaps into the 90s per minute or a sudden rise of temperature to apparently normal levels, is likely to mean that the thyroid supplementation is too much and should be reduced or stopped for a day or so. Low adrenal reserve commonly means that as the day progresses, cortisol particularly becomes exhausted, and with it thyroid uptake and processing. Hence as the day goes on, one can feel more tired (more so than one should) than in the morning, and the pulse and temperature will show this by dropping. It is helpful to take the temperature and pulse in the evening (say 9 or 10 o’clock), to monitor the adrenal status. If the adrenal glands are becoming exhausted the temperature will drop and the pulse rate may do so as well. This regime is effective for the majority of people with adrenal and thyroid dysfunction. Moreover, it can be used safely with the minimum of medical supervision, since we are using food supplements rather than synthetic preparations."</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;">Durrant-Peatfield, Barry (2012-10-04). Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy: Second edition of The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Avoid It (Kindle Locations 1697-1703). Hammersmith Books Limited. Kindle Edition. </span><br />
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Things to look for to know whether or not you need adrenal support:<br />
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1. Where an abnormally low DHEA and an abnormally high cortisol show adrenal stress, or abnormally low cortisol and DHEA blood test shows weak adrenal function.<br />
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2. Many symptoms, and clinical signs, notably postural hypotension, suggest weak adrenal response.<br />
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3. The thyroid deficiency state has been present some considerable time and is getting worse.<br />
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4. Previous treatment with thyroxine has been unsuccessful or even worsened the situation.<br />
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5. There has been thyroid surgery or radioactive iodine ablation.<br />
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6. Thyroid blood tests are normal but the patient is clinically hypothyroid.<br />
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7. Previous major surgery or trauma/shock from an accident or life event.<br />
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8. If when you plot your temperatures daily and see a large variance of readings as is noted on this graph.<br />
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A= low adrenal reserve and hypothyroid state<br />
B= improving adrenal performance but still a low thyroid<br />
C= good adrenal performance but a hypothyroid state<br />
D=good adrenal performance and improving thyroid state<br />
E= ideal adrenal and thyroid performance<br />
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<i>"The problem with the blood test is that it is a bit like looking up the answers in the back, to save one the fag of thinking. Then there is the <u>obligation</u> to do a blood test, which has become fashionable and the done thing to do, even though it is probably not always necessary. This is the hospital specialist’s approach and it is taken to an extreme in the USA (and pretty much so in the UK). All patients in the USA carry around with them a vast battery of test results (at huge expense) and the excellence, or otherwise, of the specialist is judged by the number of tests he orders. We find ourselves in the grip of a medico-technocracy. The blood test is god, and eventually takes over the diagnostic process. I deeply deplore this state of affairs, since <u>I was taught and have never had any reason to doubt, that the best diagnostic weapons of all are the Mark I eyeball and the Mark I earhole. Look and listen. The other excellent lesson I learnt was that if the blood test doesn’t bear out your diagnosis, believe in your own learning and experience.</u> In no branch of medicine is this more true than that of thyroid medicine. Since 1898 doctors have been diagnosing hypothyroidism, but in the last three or four decades medical dogma has come to say, you cannot and must not make the diagnosis without THE BLOOD TEST. There have been about 40 different tests for thyroid illness because not one has been found to be reliable.</i>" -<i>Chapter six, hypothyroidism: the signs</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Durrant-Peatfield, Barry (2012-10-04). Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy: Second edition of The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Avoid It (Kindle Locations 1000-1006). Hammersmith Books Limited. Kindle Edition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This is turning out to be true with me. I have had my blood work done with emphasis on the thyroid several times in the last 4 years and I have always tested within range maybe slightly low but nothing to worry about. However I still have many signs or symptoms of hypothyroidism: fatigue, weight gain, low temperature, mental slowness or losing the mental grasp, headaches, dry skin, poor resistance to infection, anemia, and a few others (see the list below I have starred* all that apply to myself) My <a href="http://gutngallstone.blogspot.com/2014/01/more-on-thyroid-and-adrenals.html">metabolic temperature experiment</a> I posted about recently shows I am well below normal. In fact one quick way to see if you even need to plot your temps is to take your temperature just as you are waking up. I kept a thermometer just beside my bed and when I was first aware I was awake I rolled over and popped in the thermometer. If you are below 97.6 F then you are likely dealing with some degree of hypothyroidism. I had temps of 97.1 F and 97.4 F. So.......hmmm.....I have the symptoms, my temperature test shows it, should I trust the blood test?</span><br />
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<i>"When I was first a doctor, a blood test called the plasma bound iodine (PBI) was becoming the rage. Only trouble was it kept finding perfectly normal patients hypothyroid and missing obviously sick people. Eventually, it was decided that iodine in the apparatus, and in the air of the laboratory itself, was contaminating all the results. So the test was dropped. But not to be put off, other tests were brought out, hailed as the deus ex machina, and the fact that obviously hypothyroid patients were still being missed, ignored. This is the problem with thyroid blood tests today."</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Durrant-Peatfield, Barry (2012-10-04). Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy: Second edition of The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Avoid It (Kindle Locations 1010-1014). Hammersmith Books Limited. Kindle Edition. </span><br />
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<i>"With early hypothyroidism, the signs may not be all that striking, although the story should be pretty convincing. This is one reason why blood tests are turned to – especially if you haven’t time to listen to the patient. But there is another simple sign, which will virtually without exception, put the matter beyond doubt. Originally reported in August 1942 in the Journal of the American Medical Association and later described in the Lancet in 1945 – and as true today as it was then – by Dr Broda Barnes, it has the merit of extreme simplicity, and anyone can do it for themselves. <u>It is called the basal temperature test."</u></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Durrant-Peatfield, Barry (2012-10-04). Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy: Second edition of The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Avoid It (Kindle Locations 1032-1037). Hammersmith Books Limited. Kindle Edition. </span><br />
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How to do the basal temperature test can be found at Dr. Rinds website and I posted about it <a href="http://gutngallstone.blogspot.com/2014/01/more-on-thyroid-and-adrenals.html">here.</a><br />
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The signs/symptoms Dr. Peatfield looked for are:<br />
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*Constipation & flatulence<br />
Depression<br />
Anxiety<br />
*Poor sleep<br />
*Slow speech<br />
*Slow thinking<br />
Memory loss<br />
ADHD<br />
*Headaches<br />
Thick tongue<br />
*Halitosis<br />
Hoarse voice<br />
Thickness of neck<br />
*Visual disturbances<br />
Deafness & tinnitus<br />
Ankle swelling<br />
Puffy face & eyelids<br />
*Bladder irritation & frequency<br />
Painful, irregular periods<br />
Early menopause<br />
Low fertility & loss of libido<br />
Frequency of upper respiratory tract infections (URTI)<br />
Frequency of urinary tract infections (UTI)<br />
*Fatigue - excessive tiredness<br />
*Muscle weakness<br />
*Weight gain<br />
Shooting pains in hands and feet<br />
*Muscle & joint pain and stiffness<br />
*Breathlessness<br />
*Gallstones<br />
Diminished sweating<br />
*Intolerance to cold and heat<br />
Pallor - yellowish tinge to skin<br />
Bluish lips<br />
Dry coarse skin<br />
*Brittle nails<br />
*Boils & spots Eczema & psoriasis<br />
Thinning hair<br />
Loss of body hair<br />
Loss of outer eyebrows<br />
*Candida<br />
Haemorrhoids<br />
*Low basal temperature<br />
*Soft and weakened pulse<br />
Goitre<br />
Umbilical hernia<br />
Albuminuria Bruising<br />
Cold hands and feet<br />
Slowed Achilles reflex<br />
Scalloped tongue<br />
Liver tenderness & enlargement<br />
Abdominal distension<br />
Clinical anaemia<br />
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<i>"Let it be said at once, that there may be so many symptoms that if the patient doesn’t think he or she is a hypochondriac, the doctor certainly may. As I said earlier, <u>low thyroid can affect the working of any or all bodily systems.</u> The particular mix of symptoms will depend on the person themselves, the severity of the deficiency and the length of time it’s all been going on. But there are symptoms which invariably occur and several of them together should arouse a high index of suspicion. Some of these you have come across already, but I will go through them again. I make no apology for the length of the list and I don’t want you skipping them.</i>"<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Durrant-Peatfield, Barry (2012-10-04). Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy: Second edition of The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Avoid It (Kindle Locations 775-779). Hammersmith Books Limited. Kindle Edition. </span><br />
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In the end it is your body and your life. Dr. Peatfield in his book has given great encouragement to the reader that we can do this ourselves. We can make notes of our symptoms, do the temperature tests, buy the supplements and keep a tab on how they effect us. I for one am grateful for this freedom and encouragement to manage my health by myself. It will save me time and money. Thank Dr. Peatfield I wish there were more Doc's Like you out there.<br />
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In a <a href="http://gutngallstone.blogspot.com/2014/01/your-thyroid-and-amalgam-poisoning.html">recent pos</a>t I wrote about the effects of mercury on the kidneys and other organs. I have been applying a few of the ideas from that post and from <a href="http://www.drrind.com/therapies/metabolic-temperature-graph">Dr. Rind's website</a> on myself. Though it is too early really to tell for sure how it is effecting my health I think it is doing some good and giving me confidence I can monitor my thyroid and adrenal health myself. </div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3509327289944353255" name="intro" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>"If you’re not feeling quite up to par, take your temperature. Not to determine if you’ve got a fever – rather, temperatures reflect an individual’s metabolic energy state. The average daytime temperature of a healthy individual is 98.6 thus making 98.6 the optimal (as opposed to normal*) temperature. Lower than optimal temperatures reflect a lower than optimal metabolic state which is usually controlled by the thyroid mechanism. Wide variability of temperature reflects an unstable or fatigued adrenal system. Thus, on the road to health, one wants to go from low and/or unstable temperatures to 98.6 and stable if possible.</i></a></div>
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The first thing I did was to go to <a href="http://www.drrind.com/therapies/metabolic-temperature-graph">Dr. Rind's blog</a> and get the <a href="http://www.drrind.com/forms.html#tempgraph">data collection graph</a> to plot my daily temperatures. Below are my results so far...</div>
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The 3's and 2's just indicate how many times I was able to take my temperature each day, 3 meaning I took my temp at 9AM, 12 Noon, and 3PM and 2 meaning I was only able to hit two of those times. Once all the temps are taken I average the number and place it on the graph. </div>
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Below is a graph from Dr. Rind's website showing adrenal and thyroid correlations. Note Phase E is what you would like to see on your graph to know both your thyroid and adrenals are working well.</div>
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If you refer back to my chart you can see my thyroid is in need a some supplementation as I am well under the target temp of 98.6 degree F and my adrenals look like they need some supplementation as as well. I plan to continue this data taking until the chart is full as I want to see how I do throughout a whole month and maybe two before I look into supplements. See the graph below...</div>
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So, more data to take and in the meantime I have also been making sure I get enough water which would be my weight (175-180 lbs.) divided in half (87.5-90) then translate to oz. So, I am needing 90 oz. of water each day in between meals. I am coupling this need for water with a sea salt flush I learned about <a href="http://curezone.org/foods/waterpage.asp">here</a>. to begin cleansing my kidney's and rehydrating. </div>
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Why am I beginning a kidney cleanse? In Daniel Forsyth's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mercury-Diaries-Daniel-Forsyth-ebook/dp/B009V327IK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389246382&sr=8-1&keywords=mercury+diaries">Mercury Dairies</a> he had lower back pain for many years. In fact his story of ill health begins with him hurting his lower back on a ski trip one winter. He tried yoga for three years and the Alexander method for another three years and he still had chronic lower back pain. I too have had lower back pains for 7 years and I also have not yet found any exercise that will fix it for good. I may find relief for a small period of time, but no permanent fix. Daniel did an<a href="http://www.presentmoment.com/amazing-liver-cleanse-kidney-recipe-p-4941.html"> herbal kidney cleanse</a> once and like magic his lower back pain was gone, for good. What? How is that! The kidney's connected with the lower back? It all sounds far fetched until you have lower back pain and long to be free. </div>
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I read Hulda Clark's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cure-All-Diseases-Hulda-Clark-ebook/dp/B004JXVWGU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389246136&sr=8-1&keywords=the+cure+for+all+diseases">The Cure for All Diseases</a> and she says this about the kidneys and lower back pain.</div>
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"<i>We have been told that lower back pain originates in an inherited weakness of the spine at its base because we humans walk upright instead of on four legs. And we have been told that the bony hooks that keep the spine aligned are flatter in some families, making it harder for them to hold the spine together. We are also told that “proper exercises” could have kept this part of our bodies strong so lower back pain could be avoided. </i></div>
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<i>These theories become obsolete when, without surgery, exercise or change in posture, lower back pain can be made to disappear quickly and permanently. </i></div>
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<i>Acupressure massage and chiropractic can bring “miraculous” relief. The most severely crippled lower back pain sufferer can shuffle lamely into a chiropractor’s office and walk out normally, without pain or painkiller after treatments. So although there has been slippage of disc or spine, apparently it goes back into place rather easily. If muscle relaxation is the clue, we must ask why these muscles spasm so easily. Any muscle will spasm if you irritate or injure it suddenly. In fact, your whole body spasms and flinches if a sliver or bit of broken glass is in your shoe. If you remove these objects, the leg can walk normally.</i>" </div>
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"<i>Oxalic acid crystals are as sharp as broken glass. Use the Kidney Cleanse to dissolve them and other stones. All lower back pain can be cured by removing the sharp crystals in the kidneys. It takes about three weeks to dissolve them. In some very severe cases, it may take six weeks.</i>"</div>
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<i>"Our bodies make eight or more different kinds of kidney “stones.” The oxalic acid variety is associated with sharp stabbing pains. In its effort to eliminate this extremely vicious acid your body neutralizes it with calcium first to make calcium oxalate. Your kidneys can keep a bit of calcium oxalate in solution but not a lot. The excess hardens into crystals."</i></div>
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<i>"It isn't necessary to find which variety of kidney crystals is causing your muscle spasms. Different herbs dissolve different kinds. And by combining them into a grand herbal mixture you can be dissolving all varieties at the same time."</i></div>
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Dr. Clark also says that the kidney herbal cleanse should not be done prior to the parasite cleanse. That is why I am merely rehydrating which is good for all the body and waiting to do the herbal kidney cleanse after I have done a parasite cleanse if I need it. The basic order of cleanse is important it goes like this:</div>
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I have been drinking my 90 oz. of salt water daily for four days now. I mix it up in the morning and grab what I need throughout the day. I make mine with a few extras and I am adding in the sea salt slowly adding more each week so my system can get adjusted to it. I begin with this...</div>
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after four days about 1/3 of my back stiffness and pain is gone. Time will tell if the sea salt is enough or if I need to go onto the herbs after my parasite cleanse.</div>
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I have been reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Your-Thyroid-How-Keep-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00AKF900G/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=">Your Thyroid And How to Keep it Healthy</a> by Peatfield, it is another book I am taking notes on. Written to us lay people, but not dumbed down, Dr. Peatfield gives us more than just understanding on the thyroid he tells how the whole endocrine system works and how to care for it. Cool!<br />
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This excerpt from his book is from the Appnedix on Amalgams.<br />
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<i>"The weak chemical bonding of the five metals used in dental amalgam means that the mercury may be leached out of the mixture as a result of pressure and heat, together with galvanic (electrical) interaction within the metallic mixture. The mercury vapour is taken up by the body, and it is estimated that an average amalgam filling releases about 10 micrograms of mercury daily. It turns out that two thirds of our mercury intake overall comes from this source. A further major derivation is from mercury waste. This is of great importance in dental clinics, where the waste may not be filtered and the mercury enters the food chain from sewage. "</i><br />
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<i>The big question therefore is not, does it happen, but what damage will it cause? Let us make a list. </i><br />
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<i>1. Kidneys – the re-absorption mechanism is downgraded within the kidney tubules, reducing their efficiency. This in turn can lead to blood pressure and eventually renal failure. </i><br />
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<i>2. There is an increased incidence of multiple intestinal antibiotic resistance. Effectively, therefore, the immune system becomes progressively compromised. </i><br />
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<i>3. A large body of evidence has accumulated that mercury has a number of effects on the nervous system. It is now recognised that it acts as a neurotoxin, slowly weakening the nervous system. </i><br />
<i>Mood, memory and motor function will be slowly degraded. </i><br />
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<i>4. There are significant effects on fertility, which is reduced, but worse, it has been shown that there is a correlation existing with developmental abnormalities. Further work has demonstrated that mercury is passed to the baby in the womb, and after birth from breast milk. </i><br />
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<i>5. A link has been found with cardiomyopathy, which is a progressive weakness of the muscles of the heart leading eventually to cardiac failure. </i><br />
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<i>6. Studies on the role of trace elements in Alzheimer’s disease have suggested that the raised levels of mercury could well be an important factor. </i><br />
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<i>7. Thyroid and adrenal glands. Studies have shown that the thyroid/adrenal axis is down-regulated by mercury poisoning. The <u>consequent symptomology will extend from mild to severe hypothyroidism</u> and <u>with adrenal involvement</u> will have most if not all the features of the chronic fatigue syndrome. Many patients of my acquaintance have been much improved by the removal of their dental amalgam.</i><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Durrant-Peatfield, Barry (2012-10-04). Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy: Second edition of The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Avoid It (Kindle Locations 3054-3062). Hammersmith Books Limited. Kindle Edition. </span><br />
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Note point #7, mercury can often lead to hypothyroidism or an under active thyroid. I wonder if this is why I have been so tired all my life? Because there is mercury in my body form my amalgam fillings my thyroid and darnels are something I am keeping my eye on and now I have a brilliant way to do it and for FREE. I can track how I am doing with my handy thermometer and <a href="http://www.drrind.com/therapies/metabolic-temperature-graph">Dr. Rinds instructions here</a>. I printed out his <a href="http://www.drrind.com/forms.html#tempgraph">chart</a> and take my temperature three times a day; 9AM...12PM...3PM because I awake at 6AM. The rule is to begin 3 hours after you wake up in the morning. I write down the average of the three temperatures onto the chart.<br />
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I am also plotting how my adrenals are working using the same data and chart. Cool! I used to check my adrenals by doing a salvia test which is over $200 each time one does it. Ouch! As my chelation may take awhile if I go about it slowly as I have been doing then I would want to check periodically to see how these glands are working throughout out the process and that is a lot of money spent on tests. The money I save by testing myself I can spend on supplements if I need them.<br />
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<a href="http://www.mercola.com/Article/hypothyroid/diagnosis.htm">Mercola also recommends the basal temperature for diagnosis</a>.<br />
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If I discover I find I have hypothyroidism or my adrenals are weak I prefer to take the desiccated adrenal or thyroid glands of animals. Here is what <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mercury-Diaries-Daniel-Forsyth-ebook/dp/B009V327IK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1388581536&sr=1-1&keywords=mercury+diaries">Daniel Forsyth</a> says about them.<br />
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<i>"During my saga of addressing my thyroids and adrenal glands, I declined the use of synthetic man-made hormones that drug companies have separated, formulated, masticated, and marketed. Very often they are individual hormones that you must some how mix-and-match to levels that change as the body's requirements change. The idea that a man-made chemical is better, or even the same, as natural in-nature made alternatives is wildly deluded. The only reason synthetic is available is because people or companies can make money out of selling them....Natural hormones from nature are better every single time without exception, and without a shadow of doubt. Why would I want to take individual synthetic hormones when I can take whole animal hormones in on pill that directly replace everything that I lack? Replace them all in the right balance for humans. That strengthen and rebuild my body's glands. And, on top of all that, have no nasty side effects. </i><i>The animal thyroid glands are the same as ours and importantly they have a 100-year-old history of working perfectly well. You don't need to muck about adjusting the dose to two to five different branded synthetic hormones. You take Amour and adjust that dose to a level that suits you, and it provides all the hormones your body needs at the correct levels. The down side is that it takes a bit of time to get it right. The upside is you get no side effects, you get better and it's almost guaranteed to work, eventually. "</i></blockquote>
<a href="http://www.mercola.com/article/hypothyroid/treatment.htm">Mercola also recommends Armour here in his protocol for addressing hypothyroidism.</a><br />
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So I did a little search online to discover where to buy these handy little crushed up, dessicated glands and here are some links to products that look viable.<br />
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Thyroid:<br />
<a href="http://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-premium-thyroid-glandular-thyroxin-free-200-mg-60-caps">Thyroid Glandular</a> from Swanson Vitamins<br />
<a href="http://www.pureformulas.com/thyroid-130-mg-90-tablets-by-american-biologics.html#sthash.qA6T0AL3.dpbs">Thyroid Glandular</a> from Pure Formulas<br />
<a href="http://optimalhealth-products.com/thyroid.htmhttp://store.mcguff.com/products/4829.aspx">Armour Thyroid</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/armour-vs-other-brands/">Stop the Thyroid Madness</a> has a good post about there different Thyroid Glandulars out there on the market.<br />
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Adrenal:<br />
<a href="http://www.pureformulas.com/adrenal-cortex-60-vegetarian-capsules-by-thorne-research.html">Adrenal Cortex</a> from Pure Formulas<br />
<a href="http://www.iherb.com/Nutricology-Adrenal-Cortex-100-Veggie-Caps/3415">Adrenal Cortex</a> from iherb<br />
<a href="https://www.standardprocess.com/Products/Standard-Process/Adrenal-Desiccated">adrenal desiccated</a> from Standard Process<br />
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NOTE: Daniel said he read somewhere that if your thyroid and your adrenals are working under par then you should begin strengthening the adrenals first. He likened the thyroid to the gas pedal of a car and the adrenals to the engine in a car. If you press down hard on the gas pedal (thyroid) you could blow your engine (adrenals). So<u> always</u> begin FIRST by <u>strengthening the adrenals</u> then strengthen the thyroid.<br />
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You might disagree that all these things could be related to being mercury toxic but based upon my readings of people's stories who have got the mercury out of their systems they felt mercury was at the source of them all. Why you may ask?<br />
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<i>"My list of damaged organs is textbook mercury poisoning. The mercury leaks out of the amalgams, gets transported around the body in the bloodstream and poisons everything everything everything. The poison goes everywhere everywhere everywhere. No corners are left untouched as the mercury percolates all around the body. It's a full body experience." -Daniel Forsyth</i></blockquote>
Daniel also sites that his poor diet, smoking, drinking thus his lifestyle, also played out in the damage to his body. However, he questions whether the mercury would not have caught up with him later. Would he have had the same strength and commitment at 64 to tackle what he did in his 30's? Who knows. You must also know though he is fit again and normal as normal can be, however he is still cleansing and chelating. He still can only tolerate a small dose and so it may take him years to get it all out. His body is stronger because of the things he has done to get better and it can deal with the mercury but it could back up again and I think his idea of simply making chelating and cleansing a lifestyle for a bit longer (maybe 10-15 years) will enable him to have a healthy old age. He says,<br />
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So what are the symptoms Daniel and others have experienced due to mercury poisoning the whole body?<span style="font-size: x-small;"> *NOTE: all items starred are symptoms I have and hope to resolve.</span><br />
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<b>*Food allergies: milk, wheat, gluten, soya, nightshades, sulfur foods, fruit, processed foods</b><br />
<i>fixed with the parasite and colon cleanses (www.humaworm.com) </i><i>and getting the mercury out so that it does not damage or clog up that organ any more. </i><i>The first cleanse allowed him freedom to eat all the foods again, however I must add that it took Daniel more than one cleanse to see lasting results. The idea is to cleanse until there are no side effects form the cleanse and then to monitor your health there after to keep that organ clean and functioning properly. After the cleanse Daniel maintained a healthy diet based upon the work of Dr. Weston Price, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration and Sally Fallon's cookbook Nourishing Traditions.</i><br />
<i>* I am only intolerant of dairy, animal fats and meats, eggs. I can eat seafood and organ meats.</i><br />
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<b>*other allergies: second hand smoke, dust mites, chemical in man things or multiple chemical sensitivity</b><br />
<i>fixed by getting the mercury out and but cleansing with herbs from www.humaworm.com and eating a better diet.</i><br />
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<b>*Sugar intolerance and hypoglycemia</b><br />
<i>Fixed by getting the mercury out and routine colon cleanses</i><br />
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<b>Chronic heart burn</b><br />
<i>Fixed by getting the mercury out and other cleanses</i><br />
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<b>Constipation</b><br />
<i>Fixed by getting the mercury out, colon cleanses, fixing the thyroid and adrenals, and colon cleanses.</i><br />
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<b>*Bloating</b><br />
<i>Fixed by getting the mercury out and other cleanses</i><br />
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<b>Dry Skin</b><br />
<i>Fixed by getting the mercury out, drinking more water, checking for a food intolerance like wheat or gluten. Check why you may be dehydrated in the first place, could it be the adrenals? the kidney's or both? If it is the adrenals then maybe the thyroid id not in balance as they work hand in hand.</i><br />
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<b>Sleeping badly</b><br />
<i>Fixed by getting the mercury out and gentle liver cleanses. He also exchanged his matters which was treated with chemicals to make it less likely to burn up in a fire. Those chemicals irritated his sleep as the mercury had already taxed his liver and other detoxification systems so he reacted to common chemicals in the environment. He became multi chemically sensitive. </i><br />
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<b>Libido</b><br />
<i>Getting the mercury out, better diet.</i><br />
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<b>*Chronic back problems</b><br />
<i>Fixed by getting the mercury out, cleansing the digestive track, doing a few parasite cleanses (www.humaworm.com), and a kidney cleanse (www.humaworm.com) or two. I ma so curious if these cleanses will work for me too. His story sounds so similar to mine.</i><br />
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<b>*Muscle Weakness</b><br />
<i>Getting the mercury out.</i><br />
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<b>Short Term Memory Loss</b><br />
<i>Getting the mercury out specifically with the ALA as it passes the blood brain barrier. I use PCA spray which also passes the blood brain barrier.</i><br />
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<b>*Brain fog</b><br />
<i>Getting the mercury out specifically with the ALA as it passes the blood brain barrier. I use PCA spray which also passes the blood brain barrier.</i><br />
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<b>Depression</b><br />
<i>Getting the mercury out and eating a better diet</i><br />
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<b>Tinnitus</b><br />
<i>Getting the mercury out.</i><br />
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<b>Anger</b><br />
<i>Getting the mercury out.</i><br />
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<b>Hypothyroidism, heart palpitations, low blood pressure</b><br />
<i>Getting the mercury out and using Armour, a supplement of chopped up dried thyroid glands from pigs. Daniel used a temperature test from www.drrind.com (metabolic temperature graphs) to discover how his thyroid and adrenals were functioning then he purchased supplements and watched his temperature to know how much to take. </i><br />
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<b>Adrenal Fatigue</b><br />
<i>Getting the mercury out and using Adrenal Cortex and ACE, a supplement of chopped up adrenal from cows. Daniel used a test via temperature from www.drrind.com </i><i>(metabolic temperature graphs)</i><i> to dissever how his thyroid and adrenals were functioning then her purchased supplements and watched his temperature to know how much to take. He</i><br />
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<b>*Chronic Fatigue</b><br />
<i>Getting the mercury out and better diet.</i><br />
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<b>Fear of Spiders</b><br />
<i>Getting the mercury out.</i><br />
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<b>*Grumpy</b><br />
<i>Getting the mercury out.</i><br />
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<b>*Shyness or reclusive tendencies</b><br />
<i>Getting the mercury out.</i><br />
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<b>Color Blindness</b><br />
<i>Fixed only by getting the mercury out. Daniel was color blind three ways and as he chelated the colors came back.</i><br />
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<b>Sensitivity to sound or motion</b><br />
<i>Aine Ni from Getting the Mercury Out could not tolerate music of any kind while the mercury came out and redeposited in her body. As more mercury was removed she began to enjoy music again. She also experienced weird symptoms of loosing control of everything when riding on a boat and feeling the acceleration. The change in acceleration caused her mind to flip out, similar to that of an autistic person.</i><br />
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<b>*Excessive peeing</b><br />
<i>Fixed by cleansing the kidneys and getting the mercury out. </i><br />
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The basic concept in Daniel's methods above are simple, cleanse, chelate and rebuild. It is doable. Personally this is the best protocol I have found to date. I plan the following:<br />
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<li>Continue with my <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ehzZ3yNyw">Nourishing Traditions diet</a> base upon Dr. Weston Price's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nutrition-Physical-Degeneration-Weston-Price/dp/0916764206/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388475395&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=nutrician+and+physical+degeneration">Nutrition and physical degeneration</a> as best I can with my current limitations. I can not yet digest meats, eggs, dairy, and animal fats like lard and butter, but I hope with some of the parasite and colon cleanses that will be a thing of the past. Time will tell. </li>
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<li>Do some whole body cleanses with herbs from <a href="http://www.humaworm.com/">www.humaworm.com</a></li>
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<li>Look into the sea salt water cure for the kidneys from <a href="http://www.curezone.com/">www.curezone.com</a></li>
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<li>Track my thyroid and adrenals with my handy thermometer vis Dr. Rind's instructions <a href="http://www.drrind.com/therapies/metabolic-temperature-graph">found here</a>. Then evaluate if I need to address either of these.</li>
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<li>Buy and Read Andy Coulter's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Amalgam-Illness-Diagnosis-Treatment-Better/dp/0967616808/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388475446&sr=8-1&keywords=amalgam+illness">Amalgam illness</a> to get a full picture of the issue of the mercury in me.</li>
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<li>Get a hair analysis done and use Andy Coulter's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hair-Test-Interpretation-Finding-Toxicities/dp/0967616816/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y">Hair Test Interpretations: finding hidden Toxicities</a></li>
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<li>Continue to chelate the mercury out with <a href="http://www.maxamlabs.com/shopexd.asp?id=59#.UsJ1EHlBDLQ">PCA Spray</a>, <a href="http://www.greenster.com/magazine/castor-oil-packs/">caster oil packs</a> and <a href="http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/detox-baths-which-ones-are-best-and-for-what-ailments/">detox baths/ detox foot soaks</a>. (I have already removed all my fillings... yeah!)</li>
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<li>Try a few more <a href="http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/as-antibiotic-failure-grows-poop-pills-filling-the-void/">fecal transplants</a> to improve my digestion and overall gut health.</li>
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<li>Continue with the following supplements until I learn more format he hair analysis test: Milk thistle (liver support), phosphytydalcholine (due to the gallstone), Beta TCP (bile thinner for the gall stone), Magnesium, Bio-Kult probiotics, melatonin, Vit. C, D3, and E, and something I concocted myself I call it <i>fish plus</i>. I ground up dried/salted sardines into a flaky powder and mixed them with <a href="http://www.bulkherbstore.com/Kelp-Powder_Organic">kelp powder</a>, <a href="http://www.bulkherbstore.com/Beet-Root-Powder_Organic">organic beet root powder</a>, and <a href="http://www.moringasource.com/moringa-benefits/moringa-powder.html">moringa tree leaf powder.</a> I put the mixture into to capsules using my <a href="http://www.bulkherbstore.com/The-Capsule-Machine">handy capsule maker</a>. So it is 1/3 fish, 1/3 moringa and the last 1/3 is a mixture of the kelp and beet root.</li>
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I was looking through my notes of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mercury-Diaries-Daniel-Forsyth-ebook/dp/B009V327IK/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1">Daniel Forsyth's book Mercury Dairies</a> and the concept that was most helpful and new to me was the concept of getting the detox pathways clean before you begin chelating mercury out. Duh! I love and hate those moments when you discover something so essential and so simple and you completely missed it. In fact as I began my adventure into mercury detox no one mentioned it. Not my Holistic dentist, not my ND, not the guys at the IV lab who chelated my first DMPS round....why not? </div>
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There are four major pathways to consider, the most important being the colon. Mercury is chelated out of the tissues etc into your blood stream where it is then led by the chelating agent to either the kidneys to be excreted via your ruiner to the colon to be excreted via your BM's. Nice hunh? BTW I read some where that with mercury detox 70% goes out by way of the BM and 30% via the urine. So say you have accumulated some junk over your lifetime it it will be neatly stored in your colon in a nice neat little package of mucus. All wrapped up so your body will not get hurt by it. It gets tucked away in your colon somewhere waiting for a free space to fit it into the flow going out. My husband did a 40 day juice fast a while back and some of this black snakelike stuff ams out of him. Fasting gave his body the chance to get rid of the stuff. What if your body has not had the chance and in fact you have been adding to the pile? Then you begin to chelate and the nasty mercury gets stuck trying to get out gets reabsorbed into your body again. So in my humble opinion getting the colon clean and ready for expulsion should have been the first thing I did. But I did not know so now I know. Before I tell you what I learned from the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mercury-Diaries-Daniel-Forsyth-ebook/dp/B009V327IK/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1">Mercury Dairies</a> about how to go about this let me first go through all the pathways.</div>
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So there is the colon which excretes BM's and the kidney's which excrete urine, the skin which detoxes by sweating and the lungs by breathing. I have also read that the lymphatics and the blood also are detoxers. In fact there is a very good article about the detox pathways<a href="http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/7-ways-to-avoid-detox-symptoms-on-a-cleanse/"> here</a>. I learned from my reading that mercury as it has been slowly over time out basing and has by now pretty much gone into every part of my body. My body has likely been trying get this stuff out so all my detoxification systems have need of being cleaned up of the mercury and likely other things as well.</div>
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Well that is not a one word answer, there are umpteen ideas out there on how to go about it. But taking my lead from the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mercury-Diaries-Daniel-Forsyth-ebook/dp/B009V327IK/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1">Mercury Dairies</a> of Daniel Forsyth and by becoming educated about the <a href="http://curezone.org/diseases/health.asp">healing path at Curezone.com</a> I plan the following sometime soon.</div>
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#1 *<a href="https://humaworm.com/OUR_COLON_CLEANSER.html">Colon cleanse</a> along with a <a href="https://humaworm.com/formula.html">parasite cleanse</a>. The herbs for doing this can be bought at <a href="http://humaworm.com/">Humaworm.com</a> I like to use supplements that are whole foods and pure with no added fillers etc. these herbs look great. They even will grind them up for you 5-15 days as your order comes in so they are still fresh. I get nothing for saying this and as I am only planning to do this I have not yet used them so I can only say it looks great! Time will tell if it works for me like it did for Daniel.</div>
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Daniel repeatedly returned to this company for herbs as he had such great results from them. He suffered from many symptoms of mercury poisoning one being a weak back the frequently went out on him, another being food intolerances. The food intolerance went away after his first parasite cleanse and the weak back over time as he continued to cleanse. He found that when he did the kidney cleanse it often gave him some freedom form the back pain but it reoccured until that organ was fully healthy again. Seems IBS is a parasite and when removed he could eat dairy, wheat, eggs and meat again. Prior to that he had heartburn, acid reflux, etc when he ate anything but raw veggies. I have trouble digesting meat, eggs, and dairy perhaps the parasite cleanse will help me too. I aim to find out. I also have a weak back that exercise has not helped. Daniel worked for 5 years faithfully doing all manner of things designed for the back and it all failed until he detoxed.</div>
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*Adding the colon cleanse to the parasite cleanse helps things move along as you would want if you have yucky things coming out of you.</div>
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#2 <a href="https://humaworm.com/Additional_Formulas_HFBN.html">Liver/gallbladder, Lung and Kidney package</a> I am leaving the liver/gall bladder one last as I have a gallstone and do not want to disturb it so it gets stuck in the tubes. Daniel also used herbs from <a href="http://www.presentmoment.com/amazing-liver-cleanse-kidney-recipe-p-4941.html">this company</a> for the kidney and liver.</div>
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The way Daniel did it was to do a cleanse, if he got any side effects he did the cleanse again in the near future. When there were no side effects he felt he could say that organ was healthy and working fine and then did not schedule another cleanse. So that meant he did many cleanses again and again until his symptoms or side effects disappeared.</div>
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Detox baths (skin helps the body sweat)</div>
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<a href="http://rawfoodswitch.com/alternative-health/dry-skin-brushing-helps-eliminate-toxins-cellulite/">Dry brushing your skin</a> (skin removes dead skin cells so sweating can work better)</div>
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*my favorite heavy metal chelator is PCA spray made by Maxam Labs. You can read about it <a href="http://www.maxamlabs.com/shopexd.asp?id=59">here</a> and <a href="http://www.helpyourautisticchild.com/pca-rx%20faq">here</a>.</div>
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The thing to remember about any detox protocol is to GO SLOW so your body is ready for it and you can handle the detox reactions. Break capsules in half, take more time and do less herbs each day. Drink lots of water. Soon the detox pathways will be cleaner, and flushing out the mercury and other nasty things built up inside will be released and you will feel better. I'll write more in the future when I attempt these myself. I can't wait!</div>
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Reading these two diaries is like just sitting down and having a very long conversation with these two authors who both by the way each had mercury poisoning from their amalgam fillings that just about destroyed their health. Well to be fair it really wasn't just the mercury in the amalgam fillings that destroyed their health, there was the misguided advice that cost them time and health they had to recover form and move from. There is the fact that there is not yet a truly known route to take in cleaning up the body of heavy metals. Too often it is even said to be not important or necessary. It was then the ignorance about mercury and how it effects us and all the misgiven or not given advice that sent them on their own quest for discovery to their illness and recovery. Discovery takes time and many things are gained but many lose heart in the process. These two did not lose heart both have recovered and in these books are their stories.</div>
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I read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Mercury-Out-Aine-Cheallaigh-ebook/dp/B004XTWZXY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1388201827&sr=1-1&keywords=get+the+mercury+out">Getting the Mercury Out</a> first. I subscribe to a whole foods blog about a mom who like me is changing her way of living to eat more healthy and live more healthy. Anyway on this blog, <a href="http://wholenewmom.com/">a whole new mom</a>, every week she posts free e-books that she found on the web. I often enjoy those so one day I decided to check on the Amazon books to see if there were any more freebies I could find for myself. In searching the alternative health section I found <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Mercury-Out-Aine-Cheallaigh-ebook/dp/B004XTWZXY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1388201827&sr=1-1&keywords=get+the+mercury+out">Getting the Mercury Out</a>. It wasn't free but I asked for the kindle free sample and began to read this Irish woman's story about her mercury poisoning. The book reads quick and soon I was fully hooked and engrossed in her saga and bought the entire book. I learned many cool things by joining in her story and Daniel's story:</div>
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I am not alone in my quest for feeling better and finding full or optimal health</div>
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She tried many things to fix her health before she realized it was the amalgams after all.</div>
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Mercury poisoning is not well understood by conventional doctors or alternative medicine docs.</div>
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Getting mercury out can be painful and difficult to endure.</div>
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Getting mercury out can take a long time and needs patience.</div>
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Going slow but steady is the best way to get the mercury out safely and not hurt your body in the process.</div>
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What tests were actually helpful and why</div>
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what other things you can do while chelating to help your body survive it</div>
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What is a good diet, Daniel researched as I did and landed where I landed with Nourishing Traditions.</div>
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opening the detox path ways before you chelate signals to the body it can begin and the body responds to help you.</div>
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What are the detox pathways: skin/sweating, lungs/breathing, kidneys/urine, colon/BM's</div>
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How to do good research and use books, docs, labs and the internet to heal yourself</div>
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After reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Mercury-Out-Aine-Cheallaigh-ebook/dp/B004XTWZXY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1388201827&sr=1-1&keywords=get+the+mercury+out">Getting the Mercury Out</a> I was satisfied in what I learned and felt armed with a few new ideas to apply to my own health and some encouragement that choices I had already made and had gained through prayer and listening to God were good. Sometimes the encouragement is the most empowering part because the journey can be lonely. I was just going to sit upon my new found nuggets and rest in their help when her book pointed me to Daniel's book about his tory of recovery. Now that could be interesting to see things form a man's point of view. As the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Mercury-Out-Aine-Cheallaigh-ebook/dp/B004XTWZXY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1388201827&sr=1-1&keywords=get+the+mercury+out">Getting the Mercury Out</a> edited and helped to publish Daniels book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mercury-Diaries-Daniel-Forsyth-ebook/dp/B009V327IK/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1">The Mercury Diaries</a> I thought I would at least get the free sample and see. I was not disappointed. Daniel's book is a virtual encyclopedia of great ideas. I enjoyed reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Mercury-Out-Aine-Cheallaigh-ebook/dp/B004XTWZXY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1388201827&sr=1-1&keywords=get+the+mercury+out">Getting the Mercury Out</a> but I took notes on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mercury-Diaries-Daniel-Forsyth-ebook/dp/B009V327IK/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1">The Mercury Diaries</a>. You can get both and see which helps you most. </div>
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My journey in getting my own mercury out has been not been nearly as hard by any stretch as these two and there are a few reason I can see why that may be. I only had four amalgam fillings to removed, granted they were very large ones encompassing most of my tooth but I had only four, they had 11 and 8 respectively. Also I did not use the chelator's they did so my supplements were less and my experience has been side effect free for the most part. I already knew to go slow, and I began chelating right after the filling were removed. So my experience has been a pretty good one.</div>
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Everything you ever wanted to know about gluten and the latest research. The summit started today but you can still join. It is FREE! You can join by going <a href="http://divinehealthfromtheinsideout.com/2013/10/spice-pickled-beets/">here to Divine Health</a> and entering the summit via the button pictured above, or follow this link and find who will be speaking on what and register. <a href="http://theglutensummit.com/">The Gluten Free Summit</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://nourishedkitchen.com/my-story-recovery-from-celiac-disease-pcos-and-autoimmune-thyroid-disease/">Another story of recovery from gluten-Intolerance</a> from the nourished Kitchen<br />
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A great article called <a href="http://www.westonaprice.org/digestive-disorders/against-the-grain">Against the Grain</a> by Katherine Czapp<br />
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An argument for grains in <a href="http://www.westonaprice.org/letters/letters-fall-2013?qh=YToxMzp7aTowO3M6NToiZ29pbmciO2k6MTtzOjI6ImdvIjtpOjI7czo0OiJnb2VkIjtpOjM7czo0OiJ3aXRoIjtpOjQ7czozOiJ0aGUiO2k6NTtzOjQ6Iid0aGUiO2k6NjtzOjU6ImdyYWluIjtpOjc7czo2OiJncmFpbnMiO2k6ODtzOjY6ImdyYWluZSI7aTo5O3M6NzoiZ3JhaW5lcyI7aToxMDtzOjEwOiJnb2luZyB3aXRoIjtpOjExO3M6ODoid2l0aCB0aGUiO2k6MTI7czo5OiJ0aGUgZ3JhaW4iO30%3D">letters to the Weston Price Foundation</a> in regards the Paleo diet, read down to see those who had serious health damage from giving up grains.<br />
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A view I find balanced and sensible, <a href="http://www.westonaprice.org/food-features/be-kind-to-your-grains?qh=YToxMzp7aTowO3M6NToiZ29pbmciO2k6MTtzOjI6ImdvIjtpOjI7czo0OiJnb2VkIjtpOjM7czo0OiJ3aXRoIjtpOjQ7czozOiJ0aGUiO2k6NTtzOjQ6Iid0aGUiO2k6NjtzOjU6ImdyYWluIjtpOjc7czo2OiJncmFpbnMiO2k6ODtzOjY6ImdyYWluZSI7aTo5O3M6NzoiZ3JhaW5lcyI7aToxMDtzOjEwOiJnb2luZyB3aXRoIjtpOjExO3M6ODoid2l0aCB0aGUiO2k6MTI7czo5OiJ0aGUgZ3JhaW4iO30%3D">be kind to your grains and they will be kind to you</a>.<br />
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I just placed an order for a food <a href="http://www.culturesforhealth.com/9-tray-economy-excalibur-food-dehydrator-2900.html">dehydrator</a> and I am so excited about all the new ways I will be able to use it. This morning I got onto pinterest and started pinning all sorts of dehydrator recipes. I am most excited about being able to sprout grains and dry them to make spurted grain flour, have an extra machine about to make yogurt, and it will certainly speed up our making of crispy nuts, but look at what else is possible...<br />
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This is so clever. I already own a <a href="http://www.bulkherbstore.com/The-Capsule-Machine">capsule maker</a> and a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-DLC-8S-Custom-11-Cup-Processor/dp/B00004S9EJ/ref=sr_1_5?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1383894983&sr=1-5&keywords=cuisinart+food+processor">Cuisinart</a> so I am just a step away from making these vitamin packed super pills. Why not try drying fish roe as well? In Weston Prices's book Nutrition and Physical degeneration he learned that the indians in the Himalayan mountains would travel from their mountain top homes to secure fish eggs at the sea shore, dry them and then bring them back to the village. The village women ate them with relish for ensuring better pregnancies and overall health. Fish eggs are known to be high in vit. D, and zinc which is very important for someone in my shoes who can not eat beef or dairy.</div>
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Yeah for salmon jerky. Great for any where use bacon, over salads, just for a snack or in a sandwich. I can just imagine a SLT: salmon, lettuce and tomato on sprouted grain sourdough bread.<div style="text-align: center;">
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Another brilliant idea! What a great way to save all the greens from your garden and have fresh green all year round.</div>
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Homemade crackers! Rawazing has many brilliant recipes for cacklers. And that dip sounds amazing too!</div>
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One thing I am realizing is that making my own crackers is a great way to avoid many of the bad fats that are out there on the market. Mostly it is trans fats but many of hydrogenated oils are just as detrimental. I can also use a whole salt like a Himalayan salt or a sea salt. And I can use nuts which have been properly soaked and thus the phytic acid is removed and will allow me to access all the nutrients packed into these little crunchy bites. It also allows me to indulge in liver pate' without wheat or grains. :) So many reasons to make your own.<br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Then there are the recipes you most likely have heard of and think of often when you think about dehydrated foods. Fruit leathers, dried fruits, vegetable chips, and beef jerky.<div>
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With so many ideas out there I am sure there are more....like homemade dog treats, and granolas and nuts mixes. Though many of the dehydrator recipes are used by vegans or those eating predominantly vegetables I am mindful of the wisdom I have learned about fats and making sure my raw vegetales are always accompanied by healthy fats. <br /><div>
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I have been reading <a href="http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/">Sarah Pope's blog</a> for over a year now and I regularly check out her <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHealthyHomeEconom">You-Tube Videos</a> to find out how to implement the ideas in the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Traditions-Challenges-Politically-ebook/dp/B00276HAWG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383544976&sr=8-1&keywords=nourishing+traditions">Nourishing Traditions</a> cookbook, so when her book came out I was keen to read it. Sarah's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Straight-Healthy-Economist-Guide-ebook/dp/B00BR3SKME/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383549252&sr=8-1&keywords=get+your+fats+straight">Get Your Fats Straight</a> is easy to read and very helpful in helping you know what you can do to apply the truth about fats in your own life. Her writing style is conversational but her facts are well researched and right on the money as far as I am concerned. I have also read Mary G. Enig's book entitled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Know-Your-Fats-Understanding-Cholesterol/dp/0967812607/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383545283&sr=8-1&keywords=know+your+fats">Know Your Fats</a> which is more scientific and definitely thorough, sound and well researched book, however not as easily read as Sarah's book which is why I am so excited about it. In Sarah's book you will clearly see what the good fats are and why they are good for you and how to use them in your daily life.</div>
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In Get Your Fats Straight you will learn about three main fats that everyone should try to incorporate in their every day diet: <a href="http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/virgin_coconut_oil2.htm">virgin organic coconut oil</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kerrygold-Pure-Irish-Butter-Foil/dp/B007N6Z5J0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1383551337&sr=8-2&keywords=kerry+gold">butter made from cow pastured on green grass</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Green-Pastures-Blue-Fermented-Liver/dp/B002LZYPS0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383551372&sr=8-1&keywords=green+pastures+cod+liver+oil">cod liver oil</a>. Sarah will also talk about other less know fats that are great super foods to add to your every day diet as well: eggs, fish roe, liver and Since I can not digest butter yet or eggs I lean heavily on preparing fish roe and liver and eat them together to get all the best nutrients (vit. A, K and D) in one fell swoop. I am known to have homemade liver pate made with coconut oil on my sprouted bread toast spread thick with coconut oil and stuffed with organic spinach and a tablespoon of caviar. If not that I spoon out 1 T fish roe or caviar and 2 T frozen liver pellets and eat them like pills with some chia seed coconut pudding and slice of fresh papaya with lime.</div>
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Get your fats straight is such a great name for this book and so apropos for where I am at on my path towards better health. It was only last year that I realized I really knew very little about all the various fats out there and just what benefits they offered to my health over all. The misinformation I had and the ignorance of the roles that fats play in the healthy body delayed my healing and may have ultimately caused my ill health. </div>
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For starters when I found I had a 1.3 cm gall stone I assumed right off the bat that it was the Nourishing Traditions diet which was so pro butter and animal fats that had caused the gall stone, as just abut all mainline doctors will tell your this. I followed this advice for a year or so eating a vegan sea food diet and some olive oil or sesame oil and severely cutting back on any food I knew to contain cholesterol. After all I did not want my stone to grow. But it did grow, our next ultra sound measured a stone of 1.5 cm and the next 1.9 cm. It could be my stone is not round so the variant place on an uneven circular or bean like object could account for the increases in the gall stone measurement but I wasn't happy to just leave it at that. </div>
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At about the same time I began to have issues with my hormone balance and went to a ND for help. I did a saliva test and discovered my cortizol levels were way off the charts and backwards, my adrenals looked like they were fatigued to the point of exhaustion and my melatonin was absent though I still slept through the night my hormones were a mess. I was put on a hormone jump start for six months-to a year with the prognosis estimating it would likely take a good year to sort them out. The jump start included putting three different hormones as drops under my tongue three times a day, and melatonin at night before bed. </div>
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For the gallstone I was already taking Beta TCP, phosphatidylcholine, peppermint gel caps, magnesium, fish oil, vitamin D3, high dose of vitamin C, Vitamin E in a gel cap, and a multivitamin. I often struggled to digest all this plus my food so after six months of this regime and not being able to digest all the pills on a regular basis I began to look around the internet and talk with people to see if I could learn something more about my gall stone. I also prayed. I have been putting my health in God's hands for years and as I research I listen for His leading and that is when I discovered the truth about fats.</div>
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I learned that my low fat diet before the gallstone and before my transition to the nourishing traditions diet most likely is what formed the gall stone. Missing good fats in my diet allowed the gall bladder lie unused and thus the bile created by my liver laid stagnant in the gall bladder and became thick. Thickening bile leads to gall stone formation. Years of this disuse most likely formed the stone. Also the liver needs cholesterol to make bile so as I lowered my cholesterol with the phosphatidylcholine and my low fat/cholesterol diet I unwittingly did not give my body any build blocks from which to make what I needed for digestion, bile. My hormones need cholesterol for building blocks to keep them functioning well, so as my dietary cholesterol lowered my body began to cry out for the cholesterol it was lacking via the hormone issue the gall stone issue. The best source of cholesterol in your diet is from healthy good saturated fats: butter, sea food, eggs, fish roe, liver, coconut oil, coconut milk, animal fats like lard, and tallow, and full fat dairy products preferable raw and organic.</div>
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I am still not completely certain as to why it took three years for the stone to get in the way of the new full fat diet, however, I suspect that it took a while for me to fully transition from the Dr. Sears Zone low fat diet to the new full fat traditional diet of the traditional peoples of the world. By the time I had added more and more of the nourishing traditions diet into my daily life I began to have more difficulty digesting the fats with less bile stored up in the gall bladder due to the stone. My past was catching up, but my understanding still had a ways to go before I would put two and two together and see that what appeared to be the culprit the full fat diet was going to be the cure in the end.</div>
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Last year I learned that though I can not digest butter, eggs or meats and animal fats I could digest coconut oil and<a href="http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/red_palm_oil.htm"> palm oil</a> and <a href="http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/organic_palm_shortening.htm">palm shortening</a>. As these are saturated fats they have many of the same great benefits as the butter and the animals saturated fats and they contain lueric acid one of the beneficial ingredients in egg yolks. Also coconut oil is not stored up like other fats and thus it does not put on the pounds as do the fats like olive oil. It can also withstand heat so I can fry in it and not worry. I learned from Sarah's this year that I can also fry with cold pressed sesame oil too!</div>
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I am also unable to digest full fat dairy so I switched to full fat coconut milk and began to make my own ice cream, yogurt, puddings, milk for drinking etc. I put coconut milk in my soups, and in my smoothies. I no longer ate any fruit, bread, vegetables or lean meats without adding some sort of fat to it. I made an effort to eat liver every day at least 1 T as frozen liver pills, and more shrimp and dried sardines as sea food is also full of good fat.</div>
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As I incorporated these good oils into my diet I began to have more energy, my mind was more clear, and I had stamina for a full day of work. Six months later, my second salvia test showed drastic improvements, the ND said that she had expected it to take me one full year to recover but after six months my report was like one who had never had any issues with their hormones at all. She was astounded!</div>
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I learned that not all doctors believe that gall stones are created by too much cholesterol in the diet but just the opposite, some doctors are finding that actually it is the absence of cholesterol due to the low fat diet that causes gall stones, as well as the disuse of the gall bladder thus allowing the bile to remain stagnant and thicken and thus stones to form. As most foods high in cholesterol are also foods that require bile to digest eating these foods will help the gall bladder gall stone dilemma. So how can the foods that I can not digest heal me so I can eat them, sounded like a catch twenty two to me. I emailed <a href="http://fourfoldhealing.com/">Dr. Cowan</a> as he seemed to have <a href="http://fourfoldhealing.com/2007/11/08/gall-stones/">the best blog post</a> about this and he concurred that if I could eat raw (because they digest easier) good fats like butter, lard, raw milk cheese etc. then I could by degrees recover my gall bladder system and avoid surgery. I have been following his advice for about 9 months now. I plan to get a scan soon so I'll post again with results whether it is larger or smaller. In my gut I know that his advice is more on track than most info out there in the gall stone formation and how to get rid of stones if you get them. Once mine is gone I will know for sure how to never get one again.....I will have my fats straight.</div>
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I have started this online class and I highly recommend it. You can read all about it at <a href="http://divinehealthfromtheinsideout.com/online-courses/heal-your-gut/">Divine Health.com</a> Aside from the reasons mentioned on the advertisement to take this course I am loving this course because...</div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">Each lesson is also an audio so I can work in the kitchen or where ever getting my work done while listening the lesson.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">It is so nice to read through good material that is well presented with other people at your own pace. It is less taxing than a seminar where you attend as you learn when you have time and how it works for you in your busy day.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">There is a face book group you can join to share and learn form other people, and also you can leave comments at the end of each lesson or ask questions.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Each lesson ends with to do steps so you can easily see if there is any action you want to take after hearing the info.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The instructor used to be a weston price chapter leader in her home state so she is very aware of the NT diet and how to implement it and where it needs to be tweaked if your digestive system needs healing before you can eat a traditional diet.</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;">It is far less expensive than seeing a ND or other natural health care professional.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">It is simply fun to go at your own pace and with other at the same time.</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3509327289944353255.post-63699374200203921252013-07-20T04:31:00.001-07:002013-07-20T04:38:24.812-07:00Re-Wilding...What's That?Re-wilding is a lot more than I can put down here in this post but I included web links to some of Daniel Vitalis's explanations about this below so you can get it straight from him, he coined the term 're-wilding' and explains it well. I am excited about what I am learning though as it fills in a huge gap of knowledge for me as to how some traditional people who at mostly plants had optimal health just as those who ate mostly animal fats. As I am still unable to digest animal fats I am curious about this aspect of wild plants providing some/all? of the benefits that lead to a well nourished life.<br />
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In <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJDwXkfpBnQ&list=PLaQ5j3s1vrv84iFprm_oA-k3Yf_IYkOHZ&index=9&utm_source=Surthrival+List&utm_campaign=2ba9382e14-Immortal_Velvet_Essentia_Launch7_19_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6721a8f9f4-2ba9382e14-412588185&mc_cid=2ba9382e14&mc_eid=ac2777ce3b">this recent you tube Danie</a>l explains how we get real DNA from the local plants (organic or wild plants) we eat to so our bodies know what genetic adaptations to make to protect or strengthen us for the environment we are in. A wild plant maybe dandelion greens, nettles etc. When we eat them their DNA speaks to our DNA or genetics and gives it a blue print for how to grow. So we then grow protective aspects of our own to fight against a certain microbe for example. When we take the 'wild' plant's DNA the phyto-nutrients that the plant created to survive and thrive are passed onto us or other animals that eat it. This is why pasture raised animals are also better nourishment for our bodies than animals raise away from the pasture which would most likely contain wild plants. Cool! It is yet another reason too to eat organic or local organic as the pesticides we use to protect the plants actually weaken the plant because they do not make the phyto-nutrients or other protective things and thus have nothing really of value to pass on to us thus inevitably it weakens us as it weakened them. I love the idea that we need a bit of stress, opposition daily to become alert, strong, and healthy. Also the local plants know the environment in which we are living and have built in DNA to pass along that will tell our bodies what and how to be protected to thrive in this place where we live.<br />
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I am still absorbing it all so I don't have much to say about it myself except to say it looks like a great new bunny trail to run down on my getting nourished journey. You may read about this concept of re-wilding again from this blogger. :)<br />
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Weston Price of Nourishing Traditions has opened my eyes this last year to the importance of good fat soluble vitamins but as I am still unable to digest most animal fats I have been opening up the window of research a bit more to find out more about plants. Daniel is quite an expert on raw plant foods and and herbs etc. I am enjoying getting a feel for what he has become passionate about....re-wilding ourselves via eating these wild plants or wild herb extracts.<br />
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More ways to connect with Daniel Vitalis:<br />
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<a href="http://danielvitalis.com/">Danielvitalis.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://surthrival.com/">Surthrival.com</a> (website with all the things Daniel is selling and posts about re-wilding on a broad scope)<br />
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<a href="http://www.danielvitalis.com/find-a-spring/">Find a Spring</a> (where is good mineralized water can be found in the US?)<br />
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Breakfast is for me one of the more difficult meals to eat on my current diet of no eggs, no meat and no dairy. I usually eat coconut milk yoghurt I make myself with some Paleo granola (no grains) which is also homemade, and when I can afford it, I love to have a bit of smoked salmon with a slice of sprouted or sourdough whole grain bread with coconut oil and salt served with a slice of fresh fruit. There is also the green smoothing or the yoghurt smoothie, but lately I have been enjoying the chia seed pudding. The recipe can be found at <a href="http://jotandtiddle.blogspot.com/2013/07/cherry-garcia-chia-seed-pudding.html">Sarah's Favorite Recipes</a>.</div>
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<i>It is fig season! Read more about how we are using up our figs at <a href="http://jotandtiddle.blogspot.com/2013/07/fresh-fig-jam.html">Sarah's Favorite Recipes</a>.</i></div>
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I have been experimenting with wild yeast breads...read more about it at <a href="http://jotandtiddle.blogspot.com/2013/07/wild-yeast-bread.html">Sarah's Favorite Recipes</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0