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September 6 - September 15, 2019
A woman’s most rapid aging happens between puberty and menopause. Think about how quickly a girl’s body starts to develop after her first menstrual cycle: that’s because reproductive hormones are steroid compounds that speed up the aging process. By reducing a woman’s levels of estrogen and progesterone, menopause also helps safeguard her from cancers, viruses, and bacteria, which are all attracted to and feed on reproductive hormones.
Before 1950, a doctor’s opinion was not considered the be-all and end-all. From 1950 on, though, modern medicine had its grip on society. For the first time in history, the doctor was heralded as God.
Yes, it’s possible to have hormonal imbalances. The symptoms doctors call menopause don’t have to do with the reproductive hormones, though. Normally, they’re related to the hormones of the adrenal and thyroid glands.
Saliva, blood, and urine tests are not an accurate way to determine if a woman’s hormones are balanced. These testing methods are fallible and often grossly inaccurate. If the thyroid is underproducing hormones (that is, it’s a hypothyroid), then the adrenal glands overproduce hormones to compensate. The destructive nature of the overproduction of adrenaline destroys the viability and accuracy of blood tests that look at progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone levels.
Doctors don’t give 18-year-olds HRT or BHRT, by the way. They do prescribe birth control pills for them—which have a similar steroid-like effect of suppressing symptoms without addressing their cause.
When adrenals are underactive, it will knock the hormonal test off its tracks, too. The readings of estrogen and progesterone levels will not be accurate. Millions of women with underactive adrenals are getting back inaccurate hormone test results.
Symptoms such as depression, diarrhea, bloating, anxiety, insomnia, migraines, and mood swings are often blamed on PMS. That blame is inaccurate. These symptoms, like the supposed symptoms of menopause, are actually from underlying health conditions such as a sensitive central nervous system, IBS, food allergies, or heavy metal toxicity. They make themselves known at this particular time in a woman’s cycle because the menstruation process takes up 80 percent of her body’s reserves. The 20 percent left over cannot manage the health conditions that the immune system normally keeps at bay.
When you’re looking to boost the immune system and support the reproductive system, the best foods to concentrate on are wild blueberries, sesame tahini, avocados, black beans, asparagus, apples, spinach, black grapes, and cucumbers. They’ll help by variously providing antioxidants, preventing hot flashes, providing critical nutrients to fortify vital organs, reducing inflammation, and keeping hormone levels balanced.
Herbs and Supplements to Address General Symptoms Silver hydrosol: kills viruses, bacteria, and other microbes on contact and supports the immune system. Zinc: kills viruses, boosts the immune system, and helps protect the endocrine system. Licorice root: aids the adrenal glands and helps balance the body’s levels of cortisol and cortisone. L-lysine: impairs the ability of virus cells to move and reproduce. Vitamin B12 (as methylcobalamin and/or adenosylcobalamin): strengthens the central nervous system. Nascent iodine: stabilizes and strengthens the thyroid and the rest of the endocrine
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Herbs and Supplements for Reproductive Systems Nettle leaf: reduces inflammation in the reproductive system. Wild yam: helps stabilize levels of estrogen and progesterone. Schisandra berry: helps flush excessive estrogen from the body. Hawthorn berry: aids the ovaries. Vitex (chaste tree berry): helps stabilize the menstrual cycle (if you’re still menstruating). Red clover blossom: helps flush out unhelpful hormones stored in the organs. Sage: helps protect the cervix from abnormal cell growth. Folic acid: helps replenish the uterus. B-complex: provides essential vitamins for the reproductive
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Too often, doctors don’t know about these root causes of people’s illness, and so they get swept up in the hormone trend. Valerie had decided to ignore her hormone test panels and go by the results of how she felt. She and her family are happier for
Truth is, Lyme disease isn’t the result of ticks, parasites, or bacteria. Lyme disease is actually viral—not bacterial or parasitical. When medical communities finally awaken to this fact, there will be hope for Lyme patients.
Any number of the viruses we’ve talked about tend to hide in your liver, spleen, small intestinal tract, central nervous system ganglia, or other areas where they can’t be detected by your immune system. A virus can bide its time until some traumatic physical or emotional event, poor diet, or other trigger (which you’ll read about shortly) weakens you and/or provides an environment that makes the virus stronger.
It’s also worth noting that your overall health can play a major role. Even if two people have the exact same type of viral infection and are struck by the same trigger, the one who eats well, exercises regularly, and gets enough sleep might not become sufficiently weakened to activate the virus, while the one who takes poor care of herself or himself might rapidly come down with Lyme symptoms.
mercury from any source is poisonous. For example, frequently eating seafood, especially large fish such as tuna and swordfish that tend to contain significant amounts of mercury, can eventually push your immune system past the breaking point and lead to a viral infection. Always be mindful about mercury exposure.
Antibiotics tend to kill all bacteria, not just the ones that are bad for you. The good bacteria in your gut are vital for your health, and their destruction can wreak havoc with your immune system, as well as with your digestion. If a doctor places you on an aggressive antibiotic for two or more weeks, then even if you take probiotics daily, your gut might need a year or more to recover from the damage. Some guts will never be the same, even if the antibiotic is administered intravenously.
There’s one exception to this rule: It’s okay to use mild antibiotics to fight an infection. For example, when a normal skin infection occurs from a spider bite, bee sting, or a tick bite that leaves part of the creature lodged in your skin, your body fights against infection
Certain healing foods can help your body ward off or recover from the viruses behind Lyme disease symptoms. Star anise, asparagus, wild blueberries, radishes, celery, cinnamon, garlic, apricots, and onions are among the best to focus on, as they can variously aid in killing viral cells, detoxification, repairing brain cells, recovering the central nervous system, and other healing processes.
Your gut is one of the key foundations of your health. That makes caring for your digestive system the perfect place to start your journey of healing from the inside out. Your gut includes the stomach, small intestine, large intestine (which includes the colon), liver, and gallbladder. The gut is responsible for ensuring that you absorb the nutrients of the food you eat, properly expel waste and toxins, and maintain a strong immune system.
your gut also holds a life force of its own. Food does not digest just from the physical process of food breakdown (a process scientific study hasn’t fully pieced together); there are also critical spiritual and metaphysical factors involved in digestion. That’s why enlightened beings on the planet employ eating techniques such as slow and thorough chewing; mindful, present eating; prayer before, during, or after meals; and becoming one with your food.
Your gut is where your strength is. It has emotional pores, and because of this, emotions can actually control how much good or bad bacteria flourishes there. Poor gut health can greatly hinder intuition.
Your adrenal glands produce 56 different blends in response to different emotions and situations. And the ones associated with negative feelings such as fear, anxiety, anger, hatred, guilt, shame, depression, and stress can be severely damaging to a variety of areas of your body—including your stomach’s supply of hydrochloric acid. So if you’ve been chronically stressed or upset, that can be enough to slowly break down your hydrochloric acid—and your ability to properly digest food.
Your hydrochloric acid is likely to be damaged if you overeat any type of protein, such as animal meat, nuts, seeds, and/or legumes. (If the protein comes from greens, sprouts, or other vegetables, it doesn’t have the same effect.) Eating a lot of foods that combine fat and sugar (such as cheese, whole milk, cakes, cookies, and ice cream), can have the same harmful effect on hydrochloric acid.
Here are some powerful options to remove toxic heavy metals from your intestinal tract: Cilantro: eat half a cup a day of this herb as-is, sprinkled on salads, or in a smoothie. Parsley: eat a quarter cup a day of this herb as-is, sprinkled on salads, or in a smoothie. Zeolite: buy this mineralized clay in liquid form. Spirulina (preferably from Hawaii): if it’s in powder form (which is best for removal of metals from the gut), mix one teaspoon daily into water or a smoothie. Garlic: eat two fresh cloves a day. Sage: eat two tablespoons a day. L-glutamine: if it’s in powder form (which is
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If you do have any of this protective hair left, you can help save and bolster it by eating foods that are especially healthy for your gut. These include quality lettuce (e.g., romaine, red leaf, and butter leaf); ancient herbs such as oregano, thyme, and peppermint; and fruit, with an emphasis on bananas, apples, figs, and dates.
A top source of elevated microorganisms is sprouts. Alfalfa, broccoli, clover, fenugreek, lentil, mustard, sunflower, kale, and other seeds like them, when sprouted, are living micro-gardens. In this tiny, nascent form of life, they’re teeming with beneficial bacteria that will help your gut thrive.
Rejuvenating gut flora with raw, organic, unwashed produce is how you truly restore gut health.
Once you’ve reestablished your stomach’s hydrochloric acid, removed heavy metals from your gut and irritating foods from your diet, and revised your gut’s ability to make vitamin B12 by restoring productive bacteria, any gut health problem you have is likely to heal.
The best way to get rid of gallstones is to lower your consumption of dense proteins and eat a diet that emphasizes sodium-rich vegetables and fruits that contain healthy bio-acids. By incorporating more spinach, kale, radishes, mustard greens, celery, lemons, oranges, grapefruit, and limes into your meals—and by drinking a glass of lemon water every morning and every evening—you can start the stone-dissolving process.
The so-called probiotics in fermented foods are not life-giving. The bacteria in them thrive off the decay process—in other words, they thrive off death, not life. When an animal dies in the woods, the bacteria that start to engulf its flesh are in the same category as the bacteria used to preserve fermented foods of all kinds. They’re in a different category of bacteria from the beneficial type we covered earlier in this chapter. The elevated microorganisms on living fruits and vegetables thrive on life, and are therefore restorative to your gut, because we are alive. They have a life force
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The vast majority of fermented foods—kimchi, sauerkraut, salami, pepperoni, soy sauce, kombucha tea, and so on—breed bacteria from foods that are no longer alive. Such bacteria are useless for your gut. For most people, these bacteria do no harm; they’re simply passed through the digestive tract and quickly expelled by the body as unnecessary.
Apple cider vinegar is by far the most beneficial, healthiest, and safest of all vinegars. It’s better for you than cleaning vinegar, white and red wine vinegars, balsamic vinegar, rice vinegar
any vinegar taken internally can act as an irritant to any gut health issue and will ultimately be detrimental. If you can’t resist vinegar, use high-quality apple cider vinegar, preferably with “mother” in it, which means it’s unprocessed, living vinegar.
mercury is a top fuel for cancers, viruses, and bacteria. Mercury exposure causes inflammation and can take people hostage with a vast number of symptoms and conditions, including depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder, neurological disorders, epilepsy, tingles, numbness, tics, twitches, spasms, hot flashes, heart palpitations, hair loss, memory loss, confusion, insomnia, loss of libido, fatigue, migraines, and thyroid disorders.
One of the many ways we take in mercury is through seafood. It’s in all fish, but typically at higher levels in tuna, swordfish, shark, and any other large and oily fish.
You can mitigate the risk by eating small fish, such as sardines and mackerel. Wild salmon is also safe enough to eat in moderation.
The best way to remove heavy metals is to consume the following five items every day: Barley grass juice extract powder: draws out heavy metals from your spleen, intestinal tract, pancreas, and reproductive system. Barley grass juice extract powder prepares the mercury for complete absorption by the spirulina. Drink 1-2 teaspoons mixed into water or juice. Spirulina (preferably from Hawaii): draws out heavy metals from your brain, central nervous system, and liver and absorbs heavy metals extracted by your barley grass juice extract powder. Take 2 teaspoons mixed in water, coconut water, or
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buy a system that removes heavy metals, chlorine, and fluoride. (Many communities add fluoride to water in the mistaken belief that it’s good for you. That’s far from the truth. It’s actually a by-product of aluminum—and a neurotoxin.)
A great thing to add to any processed water is a squeeze of juice from a freshly cut lemon or lime.
For a powerful detox of chlorine and fluoride from your organs and the rest of your body, blend equal parts of blackberry leaf, raspberry leaf, hibiscus flower, and rose hips.
To remove pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides that are deeply stored in your body, blend equal parts of burdock root, red clover, lemon verbena, and ginger. Make a tea by steeping one tablespoon of the herb mixture per cup of hot water.
Anti-Plastics Tea To rid your body of plastic and plastic by-products, blend equal parts fenugreek, mullein leaf, olive leaf, and lemon balm. Steep one tablespoon of the herb mixture per cup of hot water for tea.
To minimize the effects of solvent exposure, and to cleanse your body of any of these stored chemicals, blend calendula, chamomile, bladderwrack, and borage in equal parts. For tea, steep one tablespoon of the herb mixture per cup of hot water.
The human body is more sensitive to radiation than doctors realize. As with any other major toxin, strive to avoid it whenever possible.
Try to select seaweeds from the Atlantic Ocean, rather than the Pacific. They’ll have greater capacity to absorb toxins from your system.
For an antidote to radiation exposure, blend Atlantic kelp, Atlantic dulse, dandelion leaf, and nettle leaf in equal parts. Make a tea from the mixture by steeping one tablespoon per cup of hot water.
highly effective way to detoxify the body is to drink two 16-ounce glasses of water on an empty stomach after you wake up, squeezing half of a freshly cut lemon into each glass. The lemon juice activates the water, making it better able to latch onto toxins in your body and flush them out.
For an extra boost, add a teaspoon of raw honey and a teaspoon of freshly grated ginger to the lemon water. Your liver will draw in the honey to restore its glucose reserves, purging deep toxins at the same time to make room.
great way to detox your liver and intestinal tract is to eat the fresh gel of an aloe vera leaf once a day. To prepare it, cut off a four-inch section of the aloe leaf. (That’s if it’s large, as store-bought aloe often is. If you’re using a homegrown aloe plant, it will likely have smaller, skinnier leaves, so cut off more.) Fillet the leaf as if it were a fish, trimming away the green skin and spikes. Scoop out the clear gel, taking care not to include any from the bitter base of the leaf. Blend it into a smoothie or eat as-is.
add in a bit of spinach or cilantro for variety. The core ingredients must remain celery, cucumbers, and apples. This combination has the right balance of mineral salts, potassium, and sugar to stabilize your glucose levels as your body cleanses itself of toxins. Make each juice 16 to 20 ounces, and drink one every two hours. Consume nothing in between except water—preferably a 16-ounce glass of it an hour after each juice. You should end up drinking six juices and six glasses of water for the whole day.
