fiber?
In a cohort study that followed 250 women for two menstrual cycles and examined their intakes of fiber during this time period. The researchers found that higher intake of fiber was associated with lower levels of multiple sex hormones, including estrogen, progesterone, and the hormones that signal the ovaries to make these (FSH and LH). Fiber intake was also correlated with an increased chance of not ovulating during a menstrual cycle—a 1.78 times greater risk of anovulation for every 5 grams per day increase in total fiber. The authors of this study concluded: “These findings suggest that a diet high in fiber is significantly associated with decreased hormone concentrations and a higher probability of anovulation . Further study of the effect of fiber on reproductive health and of the effect of these intakes in reproductive-aged women is warranted.”
your skin absorbs everything
When you put chemicals, makeup, skincare products, oils, and basically any other substances on your skin, it absorbs in seconds and enters the bloodstream. For example, you can apply a garlic poultice on a baby’s feet and you can smell it on their breath two minutes later. (Poultice: A soft, moist mass of some substance, applied to the body for some medicinal purpose, and kept in place with a wrap of cloth or plastic.)
Interestingly, the skin absorbs substances more readily than a healthy intestinal tract. Medical science understands this, as medicinal patches containing transdermal medications have been used for decades when oral delivery is poorly absorbed or targeted. Now what’s important to know is when you absorb something through the skin it doesn’t go through the liver first, as it would if you swallowed it. Rather, anything you absorb through the skin goes directly into the bloodstream, does what it’s going to do, and is filtered by the liver later. So personal care products – including makeup, skincare products, soaps, and hair care products – expose you to an unrestricted, repeated source of toxins every day.
antioxidant hype
Health and nutrition experts have the wrong impression about free radicals and subsequent oxidation. The health community has been telling people forever that free radicals are bad for you. They say that free radicals damage cells and cause aging. Vitamin and Food companies have been cashing in on this for decades by making products to fight free radical oxidation using antioxidant-rich foods and supplements. When the truth is they’re only half right.
The whole truth is, the body actually relies on both free radical oxidation AND antioxidant reduction (aka “quenching”) as part of the natural detoxification and repair mechanisms. The two-sided oxidation and reduction cycle is an integral part of the body’s cleansing and recovery efforts. They cycle is called “redox”, which is short for “reduction” (the process of donating electrons) and “oxidation” (the process of stealing electrons). As long as this process is well-balanced, oxidation is beneficial and necessary to the body. It’s only when one side or the other becomes inappropriately elevated that your health diminishes, In other words, too much inflammation is bad for you because it causes a bunch of malfunction to occur in your body, like the inability of your immune system to detoxify properly.
Simply ingesting more anti-oxidants than you need is also bad for you, as is taking them at the wrong time, because pro-oxidant processes aren’t able to destroy pathogens and wipe out harmful things the way they should.
Vitamin C taken too close to the time you exercise actually defeats many of the benefits of exercise because Vitamin C (a well known anti-oxidant) doesn’t allow much of the oxidative benefits of elevated heart rate and circulation to take place. During this time, Vitamin C suppresses the pathogen destroying effect that oxidation provides. The detoxification system needs to be “exercised” just like muscles do — periodically stressed in a beneficial way. Taking too many antioxidants, or at the wrong time, negate the periodic oxidative elevation that help keep the detox system functioning optimally.
Bottom line: If you’re still sipping Quarantini’s and binging on Taco’s while watching Netflix, you need more of the systemic cleansing effect of oxidation. That means exercise. On the other hand, if you’re getting plenty of exercise, then you need a good supply of antioxidant foods or supplements at the right time. Too much of one and not enough of the other, and you health suffers. It’s all about balance.
inflammation
When inflammation goes up, detoxification goes down They’re fundamentally opposed processes, because inflammation loves to oxidize things (steal electrons). While detoxification does the opposite – its mission in life is to “reduce” free radicals by donating electrons in an anti-oxidant process.
Inflammation is dominated by oxidation. It’s primarily a “pro-oxidant” process. Whereas, detoxification is the opposite; it’s dominated by anti-oxidant effect So when inflammation is running rampant, either acute or chronic, the detoxification system can’t do its work effectively. And this is important because most people in the Western world have some level of chronic inflammation going on in their bodies all the time due to heavy metals, fabricated vegetable oils, industrial chemicals, hormone mimics, crop amendments and processed food, stress, and a lot of other things. And this basically slows detoxification to a crawl. Again, inflammation depresses detoxification. And virtually everyone nowadays has some degree of inflammation, no matter how careful you are. So you and your health counselors should look closely at your level of chronic inflammation when you’re trying to detox, because chronic inflammation can defeat, or seriously inhibit, your best detox efforts.
toxic fat
Does the body purposely make fat, and hold onto fat, in order to store toxins? Some have speculated that the body may very well be smart enough to actually put on weight – put on extra fat – to create a place to store heavy metals or toxins it has no other place to put safely. This could be one reason a concerted diet and exercise program fails to work – the body is protecting itself from damage due to toxin exposure. This could be one reason the first few pounds are far easier to lose than the last few.
generational body burden
The amount of a toxin a person is exposed to at any point in their lifetime, not necessarily their present toxic load (total body burden), gets passed through your epigenetic code to posterity so they’re affected at a “geometrically” higher level from the same amount of toxin. And this happens whether either parent or child reduces their overall toxic load at some point in their lives, or not. For instance, scientists have found the first generation of frogs exposed to a given quantity of mercury display ‘X’ level of injury/mutation. But the damage done by that same amount of heavy metal doubles in the second generation, and doubles again in the third generation until none of them survive. Instead of gaining a tolerance, as is common with many biological processes, they developed a dramatically greater intolerance with each exposure due to alterations in how toxins epigenetically affect gene expression. They display increased sensitivity in future generations that makes them far weaker in fighting off environmental threats, recovering from health challenges, and normalizing genetic defects.
treatment against radiation
Potassium iodide is the most effective prevention/treatment against radiation poisoning. It protects you by saturating the thyroid with non-radioactive iodide/iodine so that radioactive potassium iodine 131 can’t get into the thyroid and damage it (as well as your blood cells and other organs). Talk to your health practitioner if you experience a sudden onset of acute pain in the gut area you suspect may be a result of radiation exposure. Recommended resources to detox from radiation poisoning:
Apple pectin powder.
Liposomal vitamin C by LivOn Labs.
Ken Rohla recommends and sells the following at “freshandalive.com”: a. “Illumodine™”, which is monoatomic iodine programmed with anti-frequencies to radioactive elements. b. Liquid Manna brand product called “Rad D-Tox”, which is ORMES elements programmed with anti-frequencies. c. Dr. Morse’s brand “No-Glo Radiation Detox”
epigenetics
What surprises a lot of people is that epigenetics may play a bigger role in determining which traits/characteristics you exhibit than your actual genes do (particularly biochemical traits). Scientists now believe your own genetics – your own DNA – determines less than 10% of the expression of certain traits, while epigenetics influences the other 90%. And prevailing wisdom says it can take one to three generations to reverse alterations to your genetic code and return to its original genetic blueprint.
medication dangers
Four of the hidden dangers of taking medications long-term:
Most upset extremely important balances in your biochemistry.
Many kill good microbes, which contributes to Gut Corruption, malnourishment and deficiencies.
Most increase consumption of minerals, which makes them unavailable for use as precursors and co-factors of biochemicals, as well as cellular building blocks and repair proteins.
Some overwork vital organs to the point of exhaustion.
gut bacteria
Nature’s most effective chelator: Your first, most effective, line of defense against heavy metals and other toxins is a healthful balance of probiotic bacteria in your gut, because many bacteria are able to eat heavy metals and hold on to them in the their cell wall until both are eliminated in your bowels. This is particularly beneficial for humans, because probiotic bacteria are excellent at protecting you from the heavy metals you get in the foods you choose to eat (like tuna). For example, one study showed when you sterilize a rat’s gut and feed it food that’s high in mercury, 90% of the mercury was able to pass through the gut wall and into the bloodstream. On the other hand, a normal rat’s microbiome chelated more than 99% of the mercury in their guts before it ever entered the body.
terrahydrite
The carbon redox molecules in terrahydrite enable the thousands of species of bacteria to talk to each other and the immune system. That helps create balance and diversity in the microbiome, which creates a cascade of positive protective and restorative effects to happen in previously corrupted systems. Fluent communication between bacteria lets them first become aware when beneficial species are depleted (particularly rare species). This makes them go into rapid replication mode, bringing balance back to a previously Corrupted Gut. For instance, fluent communication system makes the group aware when pathogenic microbiota have overgrown, so they can produce more anti-microbial compounds to drive pathogen populations down. Terrahydrite also rebalances the mineral composition of the microbiome to that of a healthy gut – somewhat like a bio-friendly fertilizer for the microbiome. This makes micronutrients available for the production of enzymes that drive most cell activities. Terrahydrite increases breakdown of toxic peptides that stimulate zonulin production – before zonulin is ever made. And it breaks down zonulin after the gut lining makes it. These actions and reactions give the microbiome the resources it needs to overcome communication blocks, a broken ecosystem, and tight junction injury. The microbiome can then revive its balance and numbers from the 5-10,000 species it now has, to something closer to 20-30,000 species people used to have. Our microbiomes then have the tools to prevent or repair injury from the most damaging tight junction toxins known to man – glyphosate, gluten (gliadin), NSAID pain killers, and steroids. Two more mechanisms by which terrahydrite cleanses and repairs: When terrahydrite touches the wall of the small bowel, there’s a 1200% increase in glutathione production in a matter of hours, which is the body’s most powerful antioxidant. Last but not least, one tablespoon of terrahydrite increases stem cells activity by 30%. Bottom line: When the gut has what it needs to thrive – that is, when man gets out his own way and lets Nature do what it’s designed to do – the body’s innate intelligence knows what needs to be done, and it has the machinery to do it. Terrahydrite helps do that while toxins are an unavoidable part of our lives. Plants love it. Not unexpected, but still fascinating to watch, Terrahydrite actually makes plants grow quite a bit faster. When you feed it to them, their growth accelerates. Indeed, this is exactly what we would expect, considering its the very same medium of bacterial communication that helped ancient plants grow abundantly once-upon-a-time.
gut health
Gluten (gliadin), glyphosate, and pathogens like candida introduce toxic peptides that make the gut mucosa produce large amounts of zonulin. This zonulin dissolves tight junctions in the gut wall that would normally keep it virtually impenetrable to inappropriate material. That’s what causes leaky gut. That leaky gut then leaks zonulin into the bloodstream, which goes everywhere. Zonulin proceeds to attack membranes all over the body, resulting in leaky blood-brain barrier, leaky blood vessels, kidney tubules, liver cells, and more. Meanwhile, just behind the gut wall sits the gut associated lymphatic tissue (G.A.L.T. for short) which makes 80% of the immune system’s antibodies – which is why they say some 80% of your immune system is located in the gut. Broken tight junctions expose the GALT to every inappropriate substance that enters the digestive tract. This irritates the lymphatic system, which exhausts its antioxidant reservoirs, dis-regulates the immune system, and unleashes chronic inflammation. And, unrelenting inflammation drives all degenerative diseases, most notably ADD and GAPS conditions.
inflammation
Healers of every modality and mindset are slowly, but surely, coming to the realization that all chronic, degenerative diseases are driven by unrelenting inflammation. Chronic inflammation is directly responsible for doing the vast majority of immune system dis-regulation, cell-cell communication failure, mitochondria injury, metabolic disruption, DNA replication error, and cell destruction. Therefore, the majority of damage that a disease causes is not done by the imbalance, symptoms, or germ itself, but by inflammation that the body employs to fight the disease.
antioxidants
We used to think antioxidants came from food. We now know our own cells make large quantities of antioxidants that are far superior in reach and capacity to those supplied by foods. In fact, most antioxidants that come from foods can’t get inside cells, so they don’t do what scientists thought they did (Vitamin C is an exception). That said, they do offer some benefit quenching free radicals in the blood and extra-cellular matrix. For instance, alkalizing foods (and substances) such as raw vegetables contain an abundance of negatively-charged hydrogen ions. These act as electron donors (aka antioxidants). And that’s one of the primary reasons raw, naturally-grown vegetables are so good for you.
oxidation & reduction
Oxidation and reduction overview:
Over the last two or three decades, you may have heard marketers and wellness coaches talk about the influence of free radicals and antioxidants on our health and longevity. They’re elements of the “oxidation-reduction” cycle in the rapidly emerging science of Oxidative Medicine, or Oxidative Sciences – now called “redox” in many instances. Oxidation-reduction: Simply put, oxidation and reduction describe the exchange of electrons. Electrical charge: Electrons are negatively charged. So removing electrons through oxidation increases positive charge and acidity, while adding electrons through reduction/antioxidant activity does the opposite – it increases negative charge and alkalinity. This is important because most pathogens, toxins, and free radicals are in their comfort zone when positively charged and acidic, while antioxidant activity fights those threats by donating electrons, thus increasing a molecule’s negative charge and alkalinity. Oxidation is the “stealing” of electrons from a molecule – or an increase in the state of oxidation. So molecules with the propensity to oxidize substances are called “oxidants.” To illustrate, when oxygen takes electrons slowly from iron, that’s a form of oxidation we call rust. When a flammable material burns or explodes – again, with oxygen – that’s oxidation happening rapidly right before your eyes. Oxidants, aka reactive oxygen species: In biological systems, oxidation destabilizes the matter inside cells by stealing their electrons, which makes them blow apart in a hurry unless they find an electron to pair up with and zero out their charge. For that reason, oxidants are used by our immune systems as the ultimate antimicrobial, detoxifying agent. Most oxidants, as the name would suggest, are predominantly oxygen-based molecules, so they’re called “reactive oxygen species” (ROS). Nitrogen and sulfur also form their own less-common reactive species. Oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, ozone, and chlorine dioxide are some of the best-known oxidants in the functional medicine field. Free radicals: When a molecule with a balanced pair of electrons loses one of those electrons due to oxidation, the resulting molecule can become a “free radical” because of its extra, unpaired electron, which is highly reactive and potentially damaging to cells. Its destructive effect on cells is why the public was taught to fear free radicals in the 1980’s-2000’s, and why we were instructed to get plenty of antioxidants to combat free radical damage. Reduction is the opposite of oxidation. It’s the giving of electrons, or a decrease in the state of oxidation (hence the term “reduction”). Reductants: Molecules that give up their extra electron in chemical reactions are called “reductants” (even though that sounds backwards), or Reduced Species (RS). Antioxidants are tiny molecular catalysts that make oxidants give their extra electron(s) to reductants, thereby neutralizing (balancing) them both of electrical charge and biological reactivity. The body’s naturally-produced antioxidants such glutathione can perform tens of millions of these reactions per minute. Reactive oxygen species and reductants then turn back into salt water (from which they came). Redox: Not too long ago, redox scientists realized that saying the words oxidation, reduction, and reactive oxygen species out loud made them sound like nerdy chemists who use big words to confuse or impress people. So they came up with a cooler sounding umbrella term to describe the players and processes (e.g. redox molecules, redox reactions). The field swapped and shortened oxidation-reduction to “redox,” which is short for REDuction-OXidation. And it seems to have a ring that’s right for the mainstream. Redox molecules: Reactive oxygen species (ROS), and reductants/reduced species (RS), are collectively called “redox molecules” or “redox signaling molecules.” Redox molecules are by-products of metabolism that (1) mitochondria use to support cells in many ways, or that (2) bacteria use to support the microbiome. Mitochondrial redox molecules: Without the concentrated heat of a conventional fire, mitochondria burn fat or sugar in the presence of oxygen to make ATP to fuel cells. This produces oxygen redox molecules as a by-product. Otherwise known as “metabolism,” aerobic exercise dramatically increases the need for, and rate of, this process. Made principally of oxygen, mitochondria’s oxygen redox molecules are the communication network between mitochondria and human cells. Bacterial redox molecules: When bacteria metabolize food, they spit out their own variety of redox molecules as a by-product. Made principally of carbon with about 17 potential binding sites (representing its signaling capacity), each of the tens of thousands of bacterial species makes about 10-15 different varieties of these carbon-based redox molecules. Oxidative stress: Oxidative stress is the amount and duration in which oxidants outnumber reductants. Oxidative stress can be damaging when insufficient antioxidants and reductants are available to neutralize the oxidants – particularly, in chronic, uncontrolled circumstances. Oxidative stress can be beneficial when used therapeutically. Tight junctions are the filaments that normally hold the cells of all our membranes together and keep unwanted things out. They also open and close on-demand to let authorized things through. However, when tight junctions become damaged, they stay open and let unauthorized substances through, causing myriad health problems.
rule of nature
Each disease and problem must have an equal and opposite force counterbalancing it. It’s a simple matter of polarity. And it’s a rule of Nature – a foundational law – upon which our universe is built. So for the negative to exist, there must be a positive. There is darkness, and there is light. There’s hot and there’s cold. For every yin, there is a yang. Highs can’t exist without lows. And so on. Likewise, the moment a problem is created, the universe (consciousness) simultaneously calls the solution into existence as the problem’s polar opposite. Whether you’re talking about diseases, systemic problems in society, evil plans, or suppressive people, the problem cannot exist without a solution. Of course, problems are usually crafted, executed, and publicized better than solutions are, because of the nature of who’s usually behind each
sugar & magnesium
One molecule of sugar requires 56 molecules of magnesium, and other minerals, for your body to metabolize it. Wisely enough, whole fruits grown naturally have exactly that 1:56 ratio needed so you can eat as much as you want and you won’t develop nutrient deficiencies. Conversely, when you eat foods with added or concentrated sugar, your body has to steal magnesium that’s desperately needed in another biological process just to digest that sugar.
probiotics
Many commercial probiotics are genetically engineered. Unfortunately, most probiotic supplements and foods aren’t as beneficial for us as we’re led to believe. That’s because the healthiest, most potent strains of probiotics are not very stable outside the body. Nature didn’t design them to reproduce and live outside of their natural environment, which is in soil, on the surface of plants, and inside the microbiome of living creatures. In other words, growing, transporting, and storing probiotics properly can be a sensitive process that most commercial companies avoid if at all possible. They’d rather sterilize and homogenize the natural properties out of foods and supplements to make them cheap and easy to produce, as well as shelf-stable. So many of them turn to genetically modified strains that are easier to control using commercial processes. How can you tell if a probiotic is not naturally-occurring? One way to tell if the strains in your supplement or food are genetically modified is to look on the label. Many GMO strains are followed by a number, such as “Bacillus coagulans GBI-30 6086.” This indicates the strain is a proprietary, probably patented, version of microbiota that was engineered by scientists in a lab, not by Nature. On the flip side, you can’t patent a naturally-occurring microorganism.
nutrient deficiencies
Plants suffer nutrient deficiencies, which they pass on to their consumers Glyphosate greatly reduces a plant’s ability to take up nutrients, transport them within their structure, and store those nutrients in their roots, leaves, fruits or seeds. Applications as low as ½ ounce (12 grams) per acre reduces uptake of iron by 50% and manganese by 80% (critical for liver function and immune response). At this tiny dose level, glyphosate inhibits the transport of nutrients like copper, manganese, and zinc from roots to shoots by 80- 90%. You can bet this type nutrient depletion devastation is typical of all crops sprayed with pudnuoR or glyphosate- based herbicides: According to one report, after one application of glyphosate, alfalfa lost 46% of its potassium, 26% magnesium, 52% sulfur, 49% iron, and 31% manganese. From the same report, soy beans lost 40% of their nitrogen content, 26% calcium, 30% magnesium, 27% copper, 48% manganese, and 30% zinc.