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September 6 - September 15, 2019
“God is a word. God is love, which is above all other words. God is also more than a word. Because God loves all. God is the most powerful source of existence. People can love. But people do not love all others unconditionally. God does.”
“You must care,” Spirit responds. “What all of us do here on earth matters. The good works you perform matter to your soul. You must take this responsibility seriously.”
autoimmune disease—that is, a condition in which a confused immune system regards parts of your body as invaders and responds by perpetually attacking them. This implies your body is turning against you without your say. The medical establishment trains doctors to use explanations like this about mystery illnesses across the board. It’s a decoy to make patients feel safe, to feel like their health-care providers understand what’s happening to them and why it’s happening, to feel like there’s a measure
your main defense against EBV is your immune system—and prescription medications actually weaken your immune system. So not only are these medications failing to help you defeat EBV, they’re significantly aiding the virus.
the virus had morphed from its original mono form and burrowed deeper into her body, remaining more or less dormant until the strain of the last year, along with stress-eating certain foods that contained hidden triggers, had brought it to the surface.
The thyroid is a small gland in the neck that plays a major role in your health. It regulates how much or how little energy you take in at any given moment. This affects every cell in the body.
When the thyroid produces fewer hormones, it signals your cells to hold off and save their energy conversion for later. This helps ensure that your body runs at a steady pace. Over time, though, lower thyroid levels cause “power shortages” throughout your body, because your cells aren’t receiving the hormonal instructions to charge up that they need to function properly.
One major confusion is that patients think thyroid medications go after the root cause of their illness. In fact, these drugs do not treat the thyroid itself. They just add hormones to the bloodstream in hopes that the body will use them to replace the hormones the thyroid isn’t producing. It’s a secret that thyroid drugs are mild steroids, and that they slow the immune system down from reacting to your symptoms. It’s a secret that doctors often don’t even know; they just haven’t been told. And typically, doctors don’t explain to patients that they don’t truly understand hypothyroidism or
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If you suspect you have a thyroid issue or disorder but aren’t sure, have your doctor conduct blood tests for your thyroid hormone levels. Specifically, ask to be tested for TSH, free T4, free T3, and thyroid antibodies. While they’re far from perfect, these lab tests are the current gold standards.
it’s important to be aware that even if all your thyroid test results are in the normal range, you could still have a thyroid problem. Many people, mostly women, feel low-grade viral hypothyroid symptoms regardless of normal test results. Sometimes it takes months or even years before a thyroid condition develops to the point where blood tests pick up on it. (Plus most lab ranges are too broad, so a mild condition can, and normally does, slip through their cracks.)
Among the most healing foods for thyroid conditions are Atlantic dulse, wild blueberries, sprouts, cilantro, garlic, hemp seeds, coconut oil, Brazil nuts, and cranberries.
took out hormone-disrupting foods such as eggs and dairy, and minimized her animal protein to once daily. We also increased her consumption of antiviral fruits and vegetables, including papayas, berries, apples, mâche, mangoes, spinach, kale, sprouts, Atlantic dulse, cilantro, and garlic.
Regularly skipping meals forces your body to use up the liver’s precious glucose storage, driving the body to run on adrenaline; and as previously mentioned, this can damage your pancreas, create insulin resistance, and lead to adrenal fatigue and weight gain over time.
Wild blueberries, spinach, celery, papayas, sprouts, kale, raspberries, and asparagus are top foods to eat if you have type 2 diabetes or hypoglycemia.
“They’re wrapped up in the high-protein trend.” Kim cut in. “Why are these foods just called high-protein? Why isn’t the fat mentioned?” “Because that’s how it was first marketed back in the 1930s. If all these animal products were marketed as high-fat, they wouldn’t have been as appealing.”
The primary trigger for your adrenal glands is stress, which causes them to produce extra amounts of hormones such as adrenaline. This is an excellent survival mechanism built into your body for short-term emergencies, as the additional hormones are likely to help you get through whatever crisis is occurring. If the stress continues over a long period, however—for example, if you’re going through a bankruptcy, a divorce, the death of a loved one, or some other cause of severe emotional turmoil—your adrenal glands will eventually become damaged from being on continual “hyperdrive.”
medical communities are unaware that postpartum fatigue and depression are often the result of adrenal glands becoming so exhausted after the process of childbirth that they abruptly fail to produce enough of the right hormones at the right times to keep the mother strong, vibrant, and happy.
If you have adrenal fatigue, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms: weakness, lack of energy, trouble concentrating, becoming easily confused, forgetfulness, trouble completing basic tasks you could once handle easily, hoarse voice, poor digestion, constipation, depression, insomnia, not feeling rested after waking from sleep, and relying on naps during the day.
Too little cortisol can wreak its own havoc. Cortisol plays a key role in converting the thyroid storage hormone T4 into the usable hormone T3, and in allowing the T3 to penetrate and “charge up” your cells. When your adrenals underperform, they can create a thyroid hormone shortage on the cellular level. In this case, even if you have a healthy thyroid that’s testing as normal, you can experience hypothyroid symptoms such as weight gain, depression, hair loss, brittle nails, rough or thinning skin, feeling cold, fluctuating blood sugar, and a myriad of other issues.
you can have neurological fatigue, which is caused by the swelling of the central nervous system as a result of such viruses as Epstein-Barr and shingles.
The most straightforward way to keep your adrenal glands strong and healthy is to avoid extended and/or extreme stress and strain that sets them up to overproduce adrenaline.
Also avoid artificial stimulants, such as drugs or mega-doses of caffeine, designed to give you an adrenaline “rush.” These will make you feel good temporarily, but in the long term risk burning out your adrenal glands.
Each of your meals should ideally contain a balance of potassium, sodium, and sugar. Understand that we’re talking about natural sugars from fruit here, the type that contains critical minerals and nutrients, unlike table sugar or lactose, the sugar present in dairy. Some examples of great meals for healing your adrenals include: A date (potassium), two celery sticks (sodium), and an apple (sugar) Half an avocado (potassium), spinach (sodium), and an orange (sugar) A sweet potato (potassium), parsley (sodium), and lemon squeezed on kale (sugar)
The following are among the top foods to eat to bounce back from adrenal fatigue: sprouts, asparagus, wild blueberries, bananas, garlic, broccoli, kale, raspberries, blackberries, romaine lettuce, and red-skinned apples.
What isn’t yet fully understood by medical communities is that Candida is a frequent companion, or cofactor, of other diseases and organisms. These include Lyme disease, shingles, EBV, herpes, C. difficile, Streptococcus, H. pylori, diabetes, MS, HHV-6, cytomegalovirus, and many more.
Migraines often result from a cluster of causes—two, three, four, or more issues that collectively act as a trigger. For example, if you’re not getting enough sleep, and you’re under chronic stress, but otherwise you’re healthy, you probably won’t get migraines. But if you also have heavy metal exposure (such as to mercury or aluminum) and on top of that you’re eating dairy and eggs (foods that can be mucus-forming, acidic, and allergenic), then the lack of sleep, stress, heavy metals, and food sensitivities could combine to push your system over the edge and trigger a migraine.
If you aren’t getting enough sound sleep (i.e., uninterrupted and complete with dreams), then over time this can create imbalances in your brain chemistry.
as you lie awake in bed in the middle of the night, half of your brain is actually asleep. This means that your body is still healing and your central nervous system is still rejuvenating—so if you can, try not to get frustrated or angry when you have a wakeful night.
Fresh celery juice, cilantro, hemp seeds, papayas, chili peppers, garlic, ginger, kale, cinnamon, and apples are among the top foods to eat for addressing migraines.
The only thing chicken pox has in common with shingles is that they’re both viruses in the herpes family that can cause a rash. Chicken pox is an entirely different species of herpes virus from shingles. They essentially have nothing to do with each other.
If you’re infected by shingles or harboring the virus, you probably won’t know it for a long time. The chances are you’ll carry the virus around for at least 10 years, possibly even 50 years or more, before it strikes. The virus hides in one of your organs—typically your liver—where it can’t be detected by your immune system. It bides its time until some traumatic physical or emotional event weakens you and/ or provides an environment that makes the virus stronger. Events such as financial stress or a broken heart can sometimes be enough to act as a trigger.
Certain foods can greatly aid the body in healing from shingles with and without rashes. They can help by, variously, attacking the different strains of the virus, supporting the body in recovery from neurotoxin flare-ups, boosting the immune system, healing nerves and stimulating nerve growth, soothing inflamed skin, and detoxifying the body. The ideal foods to concentrate on are wild blueberries, coconuts, papayas, red-skinned apples, pears, artichokes, bananas, sweet potatoes, spinach, asparagus, lettuce (varieties that are leafy and deep green or red), green beans, and avocados.
A mother’s intuition is the best tool for identifying ADHD and autism. The bond between mothers and their children is a spiritual force that can never be broken. Moms know their children better than anyone else can or ever will. They know that attention issues don’t arise from their children being selfish, stubborn, or insensitive. They know that their children often don’t have a choice in their behavior; they know when something deeper is going on.
the true underlying cause of ADHD and autism: toxic heavy metals. Specifically, ADHD and autism are born from (primarily) mercury, plus aluminum, that settles in the brain’s midline cerebral canal, which divides the left cerebral hemisphere from the right.
Autism is essentially a more advanced and complicated form of ADHD. Toxic heavy metals are present at higher levels in the midline cerebral canal, and gathered in uneven layers. This helps explain why there’s an autism spectrum, with the syndrome displaying in different intensities depending on the child. It all has to do with the amount of heavy metals in the canal, and in what positions they have accumulated. With autism (versus ADHD), the additional layers of mercury interfere even more greatly with the metaphysical and electrical energy communications trying to cross the canal.
Doctors typically prescribe amphetamines to treat ADHD. That’s counterintuitive, because amphetamines are stimulants, which are the last things you’d think would calm down an overactive child or help one who can’t focus.
amphetamines create a huge burden on the adrenal glands (not to mention all the organs regularly flooded with adrenaline). If this drug use goes on for years, eventually the adrenal glands are likely to “burn out” and become unstable, leading to a host of problems. I often speak with young adults who have adrenal malfunction, severe fatigue, and high anxiety as a result of prescribed amphetamine burnout.
Diet is key to recovery from ADHD and autism. Some foods in particular are especially beneficial for, variously, flushing out heavy metals and other toxins, healing brain tissue, supporting healthy neuron signal transmission, providing glucose to the brain, calming the mind, and strengthening the central nervous system. These foods include wild blueberries, cilantro, coconut oil, celery, bananas, blackberries, avocados, strawberries, and flax seeds.
You never know what happened in someone’s past that’s contributing to her or his present-day reaction.
As a culture, we have a history of burying emotions with alcohol, drugs, food, and adrenaline-fueled activities. Expressing ourselves wasn’t really an option until fairly recently, within the last 40 years.
What’s really behind these people’s temperaments are ample glucose reserves in the brain. As a result, they can handle a heck of a lot of trauma without being affected. Glucose is a protective biochemical critical to the brain because it places a veil of protection over sensitive brain and neurological tissue. Medical research has not yet tapped into an understanding of just how much glucose the brain requires to function in times of stress—and just how critical it is that there’s ample glucose reserved in the storage bank of the brain.
And as another antidote to PTSD, people have started to replace sugar with adrenaline. There’s an increasing number of adrenaline junkies who jump out of planes, engage in high-intensity sports, go zip-lining or bungee jumping, or dive off cliffs as a way of coping with suffering they may not even realize is there. Then there are rebound relationships—that new girlfriend or boyfriend someone may turn to for a boost of adrenaline following a breakup. These are all examples of using adrenaline as a quick drug to stand in for glucose.
Posttraumatic stress disorder, in its true definition, is the experience of lingering negative feelings that result from any adverse encounter, and that limit a person in any way. These feelings include fear, doubt, insecurity, worry, concern, panic, avoidance, anger, hostility, hypervigilance, irritability, distractedness, self-loathing, abandonment, defensiveness, agitation, sadness, frustration, resentment, cynicism, shame, invisibility, voicelessness, powerlessness, vulnerability, loss of confidence, lack of self-worth, and distrust.
In order to restore glucose to the brain—and build a glucose storage bin to prevent life disruptions from turning into PTSD—focus on incorporating the following foods into your diet: wild blueberries, melons, beets, bananas, persimmons, papayas, sweet potatoes, figs, oranges, mangoes, tangerines, apples, raw honey, and dates. Note that fruit sugar and raw honey in their unadulterated states are among the only sugars the body accepts for glucose storage in the brain.
For the next few months, the mental abuse Jacquelyn suffered at the office was worse than that in a high school cafeteria. Bridget made up more lies about Jacquelyn, spread gossip, and acted as a taskmaster. She’d frequently assign Jacquelyn something to do, then take it away. Though Jacquelyn didn’t realize it, her brain was suffering physical damage from the repeated trauma.
Most people assume clinical depression comes from emotional pain, such as severe sadness and/or suppressed anger. That accurately describes one type of depression, but this is a complex condition, and it can stem from a number of different root causes. While some are based in emotion (e.g., traumatic loss), others are entirely physical (e.g., heavy metals, Epstein-Barr).
Another major cause of depression is severe and sustained stress. While we all feel such pressure now and then—it’s part of being alive—when you’re suffering from intense stress for a prolonged period of time, it can create a burnout effect. Some examples are being unemployed for months and continually worrying about how you’re going to pay your bills,
As a result of normal modern living, over time the body will accumulate toxic heavy metals, especially mercury, aluminum, and copper. For example, tuna and other seafood often contain mercury. Most soda cans are made of aluminum. And your tap water is probably carried into your home by copper pipes, and also filled with fluoride, a toxic aluminum by-product. These metals may eventually settle into the area of the brain near the thalamus and the pineal, pituitary, and hypothalamus glands. If an acidic environment is coupled with a high-protein, fat-based diet, the metals will start oxidizing,
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Specific foods can help rejuvenate the brain, remove heavy metals, replenish electrolytes, heal brain tissue, and/or address the nutritional deficiencies associated with depression. The ideal items to incorporate into your diet for the alleviation of your symptoms are wild blueberries, spinach, hemp seeds, cilantro, walnuts, coconut oil, sprouts, kale, apricots, and avocados.
Women born from 1900 on were the first ones to experience night sweats, hot flashes, fatigue, panic attacks, anxiety, hair thinning, and joint pain when they reached a certain age. In the middle of the 20th century, a tidal wave of women ages 40 to 55 were visiting their doctors with these symptoms—and doctors didn’t know what to think. Behold, mystery illness and the autoimmune confusion were born. Medical professionals had never been so bewildered.
