1.
Do not eat sugar or high-sugar containing foods.
High sugar in your diet will stimulate
micro-organisms in the gut and in your
intestinal tract. It will over stimulate the
growth potential for fungal and yeast
infections. Diets that are high in sugar are
feeding the bad remnants in our system. And when
you feed the bad, those bad organisms give off
toxic metabolites. Then your body has to deal
with it and handle it. Therefore, it taxes and
compromises your immune system.
Therefore, in this category, the foods we should
all be avoiding include carbonated drinks,
cookies, biscuits, dried fruits, and any food
that has added sugars to it. We strongly
recommend that you use Stevia as a natural
sweetener.
2. Do not consume caffeine
Having a cup of coffee or two occasionally is
not a major problem. It's when folks have 5-6 or
8-9 cups of coffee a day that they are asking
for trouble.
The main reason is with adrenals...with
caffeine, you are abnormally sitmulating the
adrenals. You are driving the adrenals to
increase output and you are causing your
adrenals to work harder than they are already
working. And for the average American, who
doesn't sleep well, doesn't eat real well, and
doesn't get enough exercise, your adrenals don't
need more stress loaded on them. Caffeine is
absolutely going to be an antagonist to your
adrenal system.
3. Reduce or eliminate cow milk and cow milk
products
Dairy products are problematic because the
pasteurization and homogenization process is
changing the molecular structure. There are a
lot of implications to cardio vascular health
and not because of the fat content alone. But
because of how the molecular structure of the
proteins has been changed.
Another reason is that dairy products are very
allergy inducing. And you don't have to have a
full-blown allergy to a dairy based product.
Dairy products, cow dairy in particular, is
fifth on the list of foods most antagonistic to
the system. So, what that really is saying to me
is it has a great potential to compromise your
immune system. If you potentially have an immune
response, and you are drinking 4-5 glasses of
milk, or you are consuming ice cream on a
regular basis, you are antagonizing your immune
system.
4. Reduce starch intake
Starches are simple carbohydrates. That would
include white flours, processed refined baked
goods, cookies, and very heavy simple white
starchy foods.
Not included here are the complex carbohydrates,
the type of carbohydrates found in fruits and so
on.
Focus on reducing the amount of starch. Why?
Because a simple starch is very quickly
converted to sugar. Why do you need to reduce
your sugar intake? Because it compromises your
immune system. A study showed that if you give
an individual a sugar bolus, the equivalent of 2
donuts, it compromises your system for the next
four hours, it reduces your lymphocyte
production, your immune system production, by
30%. 30% is a staggering overwhelming number!
5. Increase intake of vegetables
When you increase your intake of vegetables,
especially when you eat all the colors, the
green, the red, the yellow, what you are doing
is increasing the nutrient intake. The level of
vitamins and minerals that are bio-available to
you are increased. Therefore you've got an
inherent health promoting benefit right there by
increasing the quality of the nutrients that you
are taking in.
Second, you are adding soluble fiber that
actually aides in the movement of pathogenic
(that means, disease inducing) types of bacteria
and fungus from your intestinal track.
6. Increase intake of dietary fiber
Dietary fiber helps to remove a lot of the toxic
remnants, harmful bacteria. Especially when the
dietary fiber comes from vegetables, and
especially those coming from the cruciferous
family. What happens is you will increase the
excretion of excess hormone type metabolites in
your gut that you may be receiving from foods
(low level hormones in foods, etc). By
increasing the amount of dietary fiber, the
number of bowel movements will increase and the
efficacy of your bowel movements also increases.
The more toxic remnants that you can remove from
the intestinal track, the more you lower the
overall load on your system.
7. Eat small amounts every 1 1/2 to 2 hours
In other words, grazing. Have vegetables, fruits
and nuts at your disposal so that you can
consume them over a regular period of time. If
you have intestinal health problems and you go
for long periods of time with nothing in your
stomach, you are allowing the gastric acid
secretions to work on the lining of the stomach.
By eating small amounts, you are not over taxing
your digestive processes.
You lower the load in digestive difficulties by
eating smaller, more frequent, health promoting
types of foods.
8. Reduce intake of cured or canned foods
Nitrates and cured foods are difficult on your
intestinal track. They have been proven to be
carcinogenic. We're not saying that these foods
do not taste good. They do. But the fact of the
matter is, they are carcinogenic.
9. Eliminate alcohol and tobacco
Alcohol irritates the lining of the stomach.
Tobacco robs your system of oxygen - the ability
of your red blood cells to carry oxygen. That
results in a reduction of muscular function
efficiency in feeding your extremities. Add to
that high blood pressure, heart disease,
inducement of arterier cardiovascular types of
diseases.
Alcohol, and particularly wine and hard alcohol,
contains a lot of sugar. And we've already
talked about sugar. Beer contains a lot of
yeast. And if you have a fungal or yeast problem
and you drink beer, you are making the problem
worse.
10. Increase water intake
Water is critical. Water will improve your
detoxication pathways. It will help to carry
nutrients more efficiently to your cells. It has
the ability to act almost as an energizer.
Water also helps hunger. A study was done on how
your body recognizes it's sensation to hunger.
When you do not have adequate hydration, the
glucose and the nutrients do not get to the
brain efficiently. The brain is a highly energy
dependent organ in the body and when it senses
that it is not receiving adequate nutrients, it
will put out the signal for more food. Drinking
more water does not help you lose weight because
it fills you up, it helps because it makes sure
that what you are consuming is carried to where
it needs to go. Therefore, even though
indirectly, it helps to curb your appetite
because of the brain response.
Purified water is nature's natural cleanser.
11. At a minimum, take a good bio-available
Multi-vitamin and CoQ-10
A good mult-vitamin is necessary because you
need the B Complexes, you need the energy
transport, it aids in cellular efficiency in
elimination of toxins, and it improves the
viability of the cellular structures. The B's
are also very important to your liver. The
lipotropic agents, such as mathiameine and
cystine (which are amino acids), will aid and
encourage and stimulate liver detoxification.
Magnesium is important to detox pathways and to
liver function. A good multi-vitamin along with
maybe some of the good oils that we often talk
about, flax oil or Triple EFA, are very
important to health enhancement.
CoQ-10 improves cellular oxygenation and
cellular function.
12. Add the minerals not present in the
Multi-Vitamin
Selenium, especially, is one of these. Selenium,
amazingly, is a helpful for reducing the
potential for cancer risk. Bio-available
selenomethameine has been shown to raise
glutathione. When you raise glutathione, you
raise your overall immune properties. Remember,
though, if you take a good bio-available
multi-vitamin, you don't need to do anything
specific in this area.
13. Make sure you are eating enough fish or
taking essential fatty acids
Essential fats are absolutely key to
mobilization, utilization and reducing
inflammatory states. Especially the fish oils
because of the omega 3 content.
Transfatty acids and/or foods that are rich in
omega 6 or omega 9 actually feed the wrong
pathway. They are actually pro-inflammatory.
They encourage inflammation. We want to reduce
inflammatory states.
14. Take a ProBiotics with at least 3 billion
live cultures in the right proportions
and form
At least 80% of the people we work with have
some need of reinhancement in this area. The
need comes from our eating habits, our
antibiotic exposure. There's something about
cleaning up the gut, and restoring and
reinocculating with the right types. The bifidol
bacterium, the lacto basilio ascidophilus, the
brevium, the prenarium. These are all key, very
key. A good healthy gut should have at least 2
kilo of bacteria floral remnants because they
aid your digestion, they aid in your immune
function. Your stomach has everything to do
with your immune system.
Having a good healthy gut does not guarantee
that you will never get sick, but it does put
your body in the base position to be as healthy
from an immune standpoint as you possibly can.
15. When necessary, take a supplement of natural
digestive aids
If you are not digesting well, you are not
receiving all the nutrients and you are opening
yourself up for the potential for allergen
induction over a long period of time. Undigested
food remnants in your intestinal track, the
potential for developing food allergies at some
point in time increases many times over.
16. When necessary, add an immune modulator in a
natural remedy to your diet
An immune modulator is anything from something as
simple as Echinacea and goldenseal to
cholesterum extracts all the way up preps. that
we use with our patients. Depending on where you
are, an immune modulator could definitely be a
part of the program for you.
17. When necessary, take an antifungal
medication or a natural yeast and fungal
controlling remedy
If you have a tremendous amount of yeast or
fungal overgrowth, it will produce a toxic
metabolites that will compromise your immune
system.
To actually gain the support of a traditional
medical practitioner, you will need to do a
stool culture or a toxic metabolite screen and
prove you have overgrowth. If you don't want to
do that, you can do a lot of good natural
intestinal cleansers such as Pau Diarko or Cat's
Claw. We offer our product, Bowel Support.
In many cases, it's not always about cleaning up
and reinocculating with good, but modulating the
immune system or supporting it are just as
important as cleaning up. A strong host
environment is when you have a good solid immune
function and you are not being compromised, you
should not be nearly as susceptible to fungus,
yeast and bacterial overgrowth.
You want to cleanup and reduce the amount of
stress and when you have done that successfully,
you then need to stimulate the innate God-given
abilities that your immune system has so that
you do not become a hospitable host. You don't
want these things setting up camp. |
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