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Building Immunity

Live Right Now - Episode 019 – Building Immunity

Make your body an inhospitable host for the Flu season

• The sugar season is here! It’s also the Flu Season!
• From Halloween to news year day…we binge.
• Dehydration, stress, less sleep, more alcohol, less sunlight, less exercise, eating more crappy, sugary food than usual.
• No wonder we get sick!!
• Your department of defense (DOD) needs you to provide weapons.
• Your immune system is your body’s version of the military: sworn to defend against all who threaten it, both foreign and domestic. 
• Truth-Natural forces within are the true healers.
• Your immune system works hard to protect you every day, but there are things you can do to help it out:
• Your immune system protects against disease, infection.

 Sugar Is A Real Immune System Destroyer

• Sugar sucks and is a Human toxin-1960’s Bribed physicians reported that fat not sugar cased disease. Liar, liar pant on fire!
• Foods high in sugar tend to be devoid of nutrients, further hampering immune function which depends on vitamins, minerals and enzymes to function
• Princeton University- sugar can be physically addictive.
• Hits your brain like crack. 
• Sends a message to the brain, activating the its reward system. 
• Sugar has a similar effect on your brain to hanging out with friends, sex, and even drugs.
• Sugar reduces your white blood cells’ ability to kill pathogens in the body. In fact, 100 grams of sugar – about the equivalent found in 1 medium-sized soda bottle – can reduce the ability of white blood cells to kill microorganisms by 40%.  
• Other diseases:
• Sugar promotes obesity. 
• Sugar promotes heart disease. too much sugar tends to have higher blood triglycerides, and this increases the risk of cardiovascular disease
• Sugar promotes diabetes by increases pancreatic secretion of insulin, 
• The impact on immune function occurs within 30 minutes of ingestion, and lasts up to 10 hours (Sanchez, 1973).
• Sugar competes with vitamin C for absorption into white blood cells.

 Sleep

• If you’re not getting more than 5 hours of sleep a night, your immune system can become depressed, just like you. This leaves you open to colds, flu, and infection.

 Sunshine

• Take a walk. Or D-3. Exposure to sunlight is how your body naturally produces vitamin D. This helps ward off depression, heart disease, and certain cancers. A fair-skinned person only needs about 10 minutes on a sunny day to get all the vitamin D they need. However, too much sun can cause temporary damage to your immune. Remember some sun is good, but you need to protect your skin when you plan to spend time outside.

 Stress, Fear, Anger

• Your immune system is ready for anything you can throw at it. But it can only handle so much. During stress, a series of events release cortisol, adrenaline, and other stress hormones from the adrenal gland. Together they help your body cope with stress.

 Deep breathing exercises

• Focus on the breath.

Excessive Alcohol

• Excessive alcohol can damage the immune system because the alcohol will prevent nutrients from feeding your immune system. Alcohol will reduce the white blood cell count in the body. The lower the number of white blood cells, the more difficult it is to fight off disease. 

 

 The “Plant-based” solutions.

• Elderberry syrup or tincture
• Probiotics, alkaline ACV, D-3, hydration, sleep.
• Hydrate with water, not diet coke or sports drinks
• Eating more fresh RAW fruits and vegetables is a great way to get immune boosting benefits from Vitamin C and other phytonutrients found in fresh raw foods. 
• Dark greens like kale and spinach contain beta carotene and Vitamin E that help your body fend off cold and flu infections.
• Fresh red and pink produce like tomatoes, strawberries and pink grapefruit are especially high in Vitamin C.
• Citrus Fruits: However, it is common knowledge vitamin C provided by citrus fruits such as oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, tangerines, and clementine’s contain antioxidants that can help prevent a cold before it happens. 
• Get a good night’s sleep. Your body can’t function correctly if you aren’t sleeping well.
• Deep breathing techniques to relax and chill
• Practice good hygiene. Washing your hands regularly can prevent infections.
• Eat a balanced diet and get plenty of exercise. Eating nutritious food and staying active will help your earth suit fight off infections.

 

Kitchari - A vitamin pill on a plate

• 1 cup cooked lentils or garbanzo
• 2 cups cooked quinoa
• 1 cup chopped almonds or walnuts
• 3 tbsp. unrefined virgin coconut oil
• 2 tbs. coconut milk
• 1-inch fresh ginger root, grated ot fry
• 1 tsp. fennel s
• 1 tsp. cumin
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• Pinch of cayenne
• ½ tsp. turmeric
• 1 cup assorted, peas, carrots, cauliflower, red peppers, zucchini (cut into small pieces)
• Cilantro, chopped leaves
• 2 bu. chopped green onions
• 1 tbs. ground flax or chia seed
• Juice of one lemon

 

1. Thoroughly drain lentils. In sauce pan, cook quinoa according to package directions.
2. In another pan, heat the oil on medium and add the ginger, fennel, cumin, turmeric, cayenne, cinnamon. Sauté 2 minutes.
3. Add veggies; let cook for a minute and then gently mix in coconut milk.
4. Plate the quinoa first then top with the veggies / spice mix.
5. Squeeze lemon juice over the top,
6. Garnish with nuts, green onions and cilantro and serve.

 

Make your own Elderberry Syrup!

You will need:

• 5 cups of cold water
• 2 cups of elderberries, dried
• A tsp of cinnamon powder
• A tbsp of ginger root, fresh or dried
• A cup of honey, raw

Preparation: In a saucepan, place all of the ingredients, except the honey. Bring the content to boil and leave it to simmer for 40 minutes on medium heat. Then, turn off the stove and set the saucepan aside. Mash the berries and then strain the content into a jar. Add the honey and mix everything together. Close the jar and keep it in a cold and dark area or in the fridge.

 

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Angel Diet

Live Right Now - Episode 018 – Angel Diet

I stood in the pulpit recdntlhy at Unity Church of Indy to share my message of food’s relationship with our ability to connect and hear the soft whispers of God and our omnipresent guardian angels. Because society has not been taught this truth from the pulpit nor the classroom, we remain sadly uninformed of how much authority we have over our ability to connect to our highest self and stay in the flow of all that is.

I’ve been exploring this topic for a while and wanted to accentuate how a diet of toxin-free, non-GMO plant-based foods provide the nutrition to fuel your temple’s electrical currents. Since angel communication happens through an exchange of electromagnetic energy at a high vibrational level, you can perceive more of what angels are trying to tell you… if you raise your vibe with whole, fresh, unprocessed plant-food, a loving heart and live on the bright-side of now.

Food is infinitely more than what’s on your plate. Pesticide-free and non-GMO, plant foods contain the energy of father sun, rain, wind, water and mother earth’s warm soil. Consuming and digesting these fresh foods, your cells recognize and then intelligently distribute that food’s energy throughout your temple, raising your frequency.

Each time you eat, you absorb that food’s energy into your temple. Eating high vibration foods and beverages, as this column has been preaching, purifies and balances your temple so it works harmoniously with mind and soulular energy as God intended. Most of today’s DOA mainstream foods have been so heavily processed, they’ve lost their heavenly energy mojo and therefore have a low, health-destroying vibe. Remember: everything vibrates, nothing rests. The higher the vibe, the better for holistic health.

Raising your temple vibrational frequency is the only effective way to fully connect and hear the angelic whispers of the divine. While radiating a low vibe, you may never achieve complete celestial connectivity. To connect with your team of angels, you must first disconnect from factory foods and reconnect with God’s apothecary.

If you seek help from your angels, and they’re always surrounding you, simply make quiet time, pray, meditate and petition them directly to help transform your diet and make your temple cleaner and more receptive to divine messages. That’s a pretty righteous reason to choose what you eat wisely. For myself, I feel a deeper divine connection with my inner self and have more control of what I attract into my life.

 

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How Can We Be So Malnourished?

Live Right Now - Episode 017 – How Can We Be So Malnourished?

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Wellbeing Fest

Live Right Now - Episode 016 - Indy Wellbeing Fest

We sit down to talk with Jennifer Seffrin from the Indy Holistic Hub and Karmen Fink, the Founder and Inspiring Magical Force behind Sparkle and Celebrate about Wellbeing Fest!

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Raising Good Vibes

Live Right Now - Episode 015 – Raising Good Vibes

Everything you see vibrates at a frequency… and so do you. The table, car, food, rocks, colors, thoughts and feelings are all governed by The Law of Vibration: nothing rests.

High vibrations are generally associated with good health and feelings, such as love, forgiveness, compassion and peace.  The higher your vibe, the more in touch you are with your inner divinity or your true nature. The lower your vibe, the more out of sync you are with your health and higher self.

All food contains a vibrational frequency - a measurement of electrical energy present in all things. Food can help or hinder our health, depending on its vibrational frequency. High vibe food can also assist the temple in moving energy effectively and efficiently - provided we eat the right types of foods.

The vibrational energy of fresh organic produce, herbs, nuts, seeds are rich in sun-kissed vitamin nutrition is high. Eating fresh produce, our cells absorb food’s energy/vibe which has a direct positive or negative impact on the quality of overall health and vibration.

 

High vibe foods: fresh, certified local organic produce, food-based vitamin supplements, spirulina, herbal teas and spices, pure or filtered reverse osmosis or freshly collected spring water, olive, avocado and coconut oil in moderation. Then there’s nuts and seeds, fermented foods, frankincense, raw chocolate (cacao), raw honey and maple syrup, legumes, buckwheat, brown rice, millet, quinoa, amaranth, and spelt. Eating healthy unprocessed food in the state source created them—your temple receives the nutrients needed, your energy/vibration level will rise. For comparison, fresh produce comes in at 15 Hz, canned, processed or GMO foods contain 0 Hz.

 

Low vibrations are associated with darker qualities like disease, hatred, fear, greed and depression. If we eat dead, processed junk food, the temple won't get much nutrition and energy/vibration plunges. Fast food restaurants, grocery chains, and middle-of-the-road eateries offer food of a very low vibrational quality, which doesn't provide any valuable vitamins and minerals for the temple’s cells. Eating foods devoid of vibrational frequency (i.e., processed and GMO foods), we are indirectly polluting the temple; filling tummies with substances harmful to health and well-being. I call this unconscious eating.

To be confident of obtaining food with the highest vibrational frequency, then, as much as possible, buy seasonal, local, sustainably foods grown naturally as God planned. Of course, offering gratitude before meals is the most powerful, highly vibrational form of spiritual nourishment.

 

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Dietary Psychiatry

Live Right Now - Episode 014 - Dietary Psychiatry

Dietary Psychiatry: malnutrition and cognitive function

After locking my keys inside the car while it was still running and Sandra rolling over one morning asking, “Who are you and why are you in my bed”; both in our early 70’s, we acknowledged our mental health is indeed fading. But seriously, there is mounting acceptance on the use of food and supplements to provide essential nutrients as part of a treatment for mental health disorders relating to depression, cognitive function, and dementia. As we age, memory blips will increase, although you needn’t put out the welcome mat.

Widespread senior malnutrition in America is serious biz. According to the National Resource Center on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Aging, 1 in 4 older Americans has poor nutrition… in America, in the 21^st century.

Looking back, I’m certain the quality of Mom’s late life would’ve have been richer if she’d chosen or been encouraged to eat more than a processed deli turkey sandwich on nasty white bread with Miracle Whip and a sweet pickle every day, 365 days a year. A paper napkin has more nutrition for goodness sake. Saturated fat, white flour, chemical preservatives, and sugars fertilize mental decline and starve the cells of much needed vitamin nutrition.

All life’s food choices profoundly affect their mental health. The NIH reports a lack of wholesome vitamin nutrition from fresh, not canned, frozen or processed institutional food, contributes to the onset of poor mental health in people suffering from anxiety and depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.

Because we’ve become somewhat disconnected from the garden since the Industrial Revolution and plugged in to “Man’s egoic genetically manipulated version of a garden”, modern seniors are woefully deprived in foods and nutrients considered “brain food”: omega-3 fatty acids from cold water fish, flax and chia seeds, walnuts, cholesterol (yes cholesterol), D-3, B-complex, especially B12.

Regarding cholesterol, aka, brain food, at least a dozen reports show the risk of suicide may be substantially higher in people with low cholesterol. In a French study that tracked 6,393 men, published in the September 1996 issue of the British Medical Journal, those with low cholesterol were three times more likely than the other men to kill themselves. A link between low cholesterol and depression has turned up in other studies. Hmm? cholesterol was never really the health boogeyman the medical community made it out to be. Your brain needs cholesterol to grow new nerve cells and for these nerve cells to work properly. And when your brain is deprived of cholesterol, things don’t go so well up there. In fact, researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center say without enough cholesterol, you may even develop serious brain diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Of course, "Physical exercise has the best evidence for preserving memory and mental function with aging," says R. Scott Turner, MD, PhD, director of the Memory Disorders Program at Georgetown University Medical Center

In a world where we’ve been programmed to let others form our thoughts and opinions, we’ve long forgotten who calls the shots and knows what’s best, and it’s not a food corporation. We’ve departed the road of nutritional righteousness: disconnected earth’s apothecary. It’s happened so slowly we’ve not noticed how far we’ve strayed from the perfect plant-based diet or cells understand. Man cannot outsmart the mechanics of a universe he’s incapable of understanding and will never improve on Mother Earth.

During this magnificent golden period of your life, give extra consideration to what foods you choose to eat.  You were gifted one strong, sacred and beautiful temple by the One Divine Mind. Embrace it with dietary self-love. Choose to focus your thoughts on remaining the clear-headed, beautiful unique being you are for as long as you can and not lock your keys in the idling car or waking up next to a stranger.

https://www.webmd.com/men/features/can-your-cholesterol-be-too-low-feature#1

https://theconversation.com/why-nutritional-psychiatry-is-the-future-of-mental-health-treatment-92545?utm_medium=ampemail&utm_source=email  

https://pilotonline.com/inside-business/news/columns/article_42cec91a-7158-5d52-92b8-97b46bc145ff.html?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

 

FACTORS LEADING TO NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY AND INSUFFICIENCY

• A divorce from nature-disconnected to source
• Start paying attention to how eating different foods makes you feel — not just in the moment, but the next day. Try eating a “clean” plant food diet for two to three weeks.
• Cut out all processed foods and sugar.
• Add fermented foods like kimchi, miso, sauerkraut, pickles, or kombucha.
• try going dairy-free —
• Some feel better when their diets are grain-free. See how you feel. Then slowly introduce foods back into your diet, one by one, and see how you feel.
• Studies show when people take probiotics (supplements containing the good bacteria), their anxiety levels, perception of stress, and mental outlook improve, compared with people who did not take probiotic (Lancet and Harvard.)

 

Vitamin DEFICIENCY / INSUFFICIENCY.

FOLATE

• Folate is especially promising for depression-Dark leafy greens, asparagus, broccoli and cauliflower, citrus, beans, peas, lentils, avocado, seeds and nuts, beets.

Omega-3

• Fish oil is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, a major building block in optimal brain chemistry.
• Americans get adequate amounts of omega-6 fatty acids, we often come up short in omega-3s.
• Without enough omega-3s, "you tend to not transmit nerve signals properly, "When your brain isn't running properly, you can feel depressed or anxious.

VITAMIN D

• Vitamin D helps combat anxiety and depression. A 2008 study of 441 overweight and obese men and women in Norway found that those given 20,000 and 40,000 IUs per week of vitamin D supplements had significantly less depression symptoms after one year than those in a placebo group.

B-COMPLEX VITAMINS

• Mild depression is an imbalance of brain neurotransmitters-natural chemicals that can act as mood enhancers by helping transmit signals between brain cells.
• A 2004 Danish study of 140 people found that those who were clinically depressed had low levels of vitamin B6 in their blood.
• If upping serotonin levels through B6 and B3 doesn't help, turning to vitamin B12 plus folic acid,
• A 2002 Dutch study of nearly 4,000 elderly people backs up this suggestion: Researchers found that many of those who had depression symptoms also had vitamin B12 deficiency.
• Richest among all the vitamin B complex foods are milk, yeast, liver, whole-grain cereals, nuts, eggs, yogurt, fruits, meats and leafy vegetables.
• B-Complex sources: Sublingual B-12
• Pork, berries, legumes, lean meats. Nuts, soy milk (Vitamin B1)
• Eggs, dark green vegetables, fish, grains, lean meat, mushrooms (B2)
• Sunflower seeds, tuna, poultry, potato, cottage cheese, liver (B3)
• Organ meats, avocados, broccoli, mushrooms(B5)
• Green beans, whole grains, spinach, fish, bananas(B6)
• Soy products, egg yolks, fish, organ meats, cheese, sweet potatoes(B7)
• Green leafy vegetables, citrus juice, legumes, tofu, tomato juice (B9)
• Milk, fish, fortified breakfast cereal, eggs, shellfish (B12)

 

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Why A Plant Based Diet?

Live Right Now - Episode 013 – Why A Plant Based Diet

After an angel visitation, I improved each day after being bluntly informed by cardiologists, “Get prepared, you’re going to die Mr. Fowler”. I made deals with God that if I overcame this, I’d use my culinary skills to teach my chronically ill brothers and sisters the value of eating a plan-based food (PBF) from the garden, not man’s arrogant attempts to graft the hand of God.

Humans are, always have been, and always will be omnivorous.  Although, eating mass quantities of diet sodas, sugary pastries, candy, fast food, refined grains, and plenty of dead animals embodies the red, white, and blue American way, it has sown the seeds of sickness and sadness. Discouraged to place food in context with disease, society has become comfortable and accepts chronic disease as a normal progression of aging. Normal to be sick and unfulfilled and never reach your highest self?

The CDC states, more than two-thirds of adults are obese and our kids are catching up. The average American inhales 270 pounds of meat a year--double USDA recommendations. It’s just too much animal protein for our temple to process. Plus, there is no significant vitamin nutrition or fiber in meat. Just protein, five B-complex vitamins, some iron and calories.

An environmentally-friendly PBD emphasizes whole, minimally processed foods, limits or avoids animal products, focuses on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, seeds and nuts, an occasional egg, minimal dairy, but little meat. A PBD rejects refined foods like white AP flour, sugar, white rice, and processed hydrogenated oils.

Large studies found those who consume a healthy non-GMO PBD sourced from your community farmer’s market helped them to lose weight, create mental and physical health and showed a significantly lower risk of developing heart disease, cancer, cognitive decline, and diabetes. How much more proof do you need before connecting the dots and reprogramming your thinking?

 “Now” is the perfect time to sell yourself on the self-compassionate, health creating, peace-filled lifestyle of eating from God’s verdant earthly apothecary. America is suffering from malnutrition like the 3^rd world countries we plunder and diminish. Begin waking up from blindly accepting man’s failed food system. Perfect health and happiness are your divine right. Reconnect to earth and make it so.

Stroll through your community farmer’s market’s abundance and harvest a kaleidoscope of garden goodness fresh from the vine, pleading to be used as vitamin nutrition, energy and sacred medicine. That’s the way God planned it.

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Something To Chew On

Live Right Now - Episode 012 – Something To Chew On

When we eat a variety of plant-based foods, there is a multi-vitamin pill with minerals on every plate… literally right under our noses, yet most vegephobia, disconnected, pharma-worshiping Americans needlessly suffer from “managed “diseases of vitamin deficiency: the irony of modern society,

In a fast-paced, multitasking, “I’m-too-important-busy” non-stop life…chronic disease rates continue to soar unimpeded. Too many disconnected, beautiful souls are unaware or have forgotten that digestion and a healthy Earth Suit begins in the mouth with mindful chewing, not gulping.

When good souls finally awaken from their slumber and reconnect, suddenly, proper chewing and digestion of real, living foods from natures apothecary becomes most relevant, considering since the beginning of time, vitamins have been sourced by all lifeforms from natures sacred apothecary. The Industrial Revolution made sure we made the unholy disconnect. Western Society has had an ugly divorce from nature and have willingly, or blindly accepted vitamin-deficient, manmade, genetically modified food-like-substances, rather than the rainbow of plant-foods designated by the divine intelligence of all that is.

In our fast-paced world, too many beautiful souls are unaware or have forgotten that digestion begins in the mouth with mindful chewing, not gulping.  To create health, slow down and thoroughly chew each mouthful to absorb the most vitamins, minerals, highly-vibrational energy and other Phyto-nutrients from your food.

To create and sustain health, slow down and thoroughly chew each mouthful to absorb the most vitamins, minerals, highly-vibrational energy and other Phyto-nutrients from your food.

Slow down for goodness sake! You weren’t brought up by a snarling pack of wolves.

No one’s going to rip it away. Take in and exhale three deep breaths.  Be in the moment and appreciate the universe on your plate.  Focus on your food’s source, texture, color, and aroma. Know that this fresh food is feeding, not depleting your sacred wholeness.

Mindful chewing helps your Earth Suit break down food-easier to extract and absorb more nutrients and energy from food. Thorough chewing food– at least 20 times- maximizes vitamin absorption allowing digestive enzymes to saturate the food and begin the process of breaking down starches into sugars.

And let’s not forget gratefulness. Give thanks to whoever your God may be and of course the cook. The Earth Suit is a sacred vehicle transporting us on our life journey. The only one you get. Treat it as such. Do you not owe it to yourself to reach your highest calling?

 

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How Sweet It is

Live Right Now - Episode 011 – How Sweet It Is!

 

Artificial Sweeteners: Pink, Blue and Yellow deception

Questionable, yet widely consumed for decades, artificial sweeteners are a creation of man for people who cannot eat sugar or wish to reduce sugary foods. Artificial sweeteners are in a dizzying array of things like frou-frou coffee, baked goods, toothpaste, mouthwash, gum and nicotine gum, yogurt, children’s chewable vitamins, and on and on.

Lulled to sleep by a 100-year fairy tale, you’ve been obediently sleepwalking; comfortable in a stupor of blind obedience to a food system that doesn’t have your best interest at heart. Your birthright of health is under attack by unholy compounds not meant to enter your holy temple.

Sigh… choosing man over God seems to be today’s egoic mantra considering Mother Gaia has provided virtually everything humankind needs to live abundantly. We are a peculiar species with an unquenchable ego that deliberately chooses man’s creations over Gods. Ignoring everything divine mother nature generously provided from the garden to sustain health, repair and rebuild our temples.

You needn’t look further than the Earth’s garden for raw honey, maple or brown rice syrup, date and coconut sugars, xylitol, stevia, organic agave, fruit concentrates, and yacon syrup.

Sweet n’ Low, AKA, saccharin, the Latin word for sugar, was accidently discovered in 1897 by a John’s Hopkins researcher seeking new uses for coal tar derivatives. Coal tar is a byproduct of the production of coke, a solid fuel that contains mostly carbon, and coal gas.

Splenda, which has a chlorinated base like DDT, was discovered in 1976 when a British scientist misheard instruction about testing a substance. Instead, he tasted it, realizing it was highly sweet.  Fast forward: Case Western Reserve University of Medicine reports Splenda promotes “bad” bacteria and intestinal inflammation in human patients. Their study found over a short period, Splenda worsened gut inflammation with mice with Crohn’s-like symptoms.  At high temperatures, sucralose may break down and generate harmful, cancerous substances.

According to the online patent, aspartame / Nutra Sweet, is created from GMO e coli bacteria. Yeppers, bugs are cultivated and fed so they’ll poop proteins that contain the amino acid used to make aspartame. Really? Your Nutra Sweet can cause headaches, memory loss, seizures, induce brain tumors, vision loss, coma and cancer and interact with all antidepressants, L-dopa, coumadin, hormones, insulin, cardiac meds, and worsens symptoms of fibromyalgia, MS, Lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, chronic fatigue and depression. Fooled again. Not much love here.

 

Links mentioned in the show:

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2309727
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16507461
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17805418
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814609005378
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18800291
• https://www.livestrong.com/article/444353-negative-effects-of-artificial-sweeteners/
• A Brief and Bizarre History of Artificial Sweeteners
• Donald Rumsfeld and the Strange History of Aspartame
• Artificial Sweetener Splenda Could Intensify Symptoms in Those with Crohn’s Disease

 

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Mo Hotta Mo Betta!

Live Right Now - Episode 010 – Mo Hotta Mo Betta

Friends, you ‘all just gotta’ wake up. Clearly, the rest of the world knows more about preventing chronic disease with nature’s ‘farmacy’ than we do. Capsaicin, the stuff that makes peppers hot is an example. Since chili peppers are not a part of our Midwest tradition, Hoosiers have wimpy taste buds for hot, mouth-searing, albeit health-stimulating peppers flavoring their food. Excluding a cocktail party when inebriated men exhibit their machismo by seeing who can eat the hottest pepper.

When capsaicin is consumed in a slightly diluted form, such as in hot sauce, chili peppers or cayenne peppers, it offers a myriad of health benefits. The hotter the chili pepper, the more capsaicin it contains. 

World cultures who use hot peppers liberally in their meals have significantly lower rates of heart attack and stroke than cultures that do not. Capsaicin may help to protect the heart by reducing cholesterol, triglycerides and platelet aggregation.

"Capsaicin inhibits the growth of human prostate cancer cells in petri dishes and mice," says lead researcher at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. A study published in Cancer Research found capsaicin caused cancer cells to commit suicide. 

A topical form of capsaicin is used for osteoarthritis pain and alleviating pain from diabetic neuropathy. Capsaicin is a potential treatment for arthritis and psoriasis.  Studies have found that capsaicin relieves and prevents cluster headaches, migraine headaches and sinus headaches.

When I’m congested, among other natural treatments, I eat food spiced with hot peppers. Capsaicin stimulates secretions that help clear mucus from your nose, thus relieving nasal congestion. Capsaicin has potent antibacterial properties that fight and prevent chronic sinusitis too.

We must address the root cause. Why treat just the symptoms? Why hush our temple’s way of telling us something’s wrong? That’s illogically insane. We’ve been pharmaceutically disconnected from mother nature; told plant-based naturopathic medicine is hokum and trained, yes trained, by aggressive TV advertising to, despite the horrific side effects, obediently take a pill and the symptoms will disappear. Really? Perhaps, but the source still exists… you just don’t hear your temple’s screams for help.

Add more chili pepper spice to our life. Keep a container of powdered cayenne or hot pepper flakes on the table right next to the pepper mill, so you and your family can add a pinch of extra spice to any of your meals. Chili peppers burn your butt? Small price to pay. And BTW, they are not intended to be used as suppositories.

 

Some Hot Pepper facts:

• People who love fiery food have been dubbed pyro-gourmaniacs.
• Chile peppers are perhaps the first plants to be domesticated in Central America, where there is evidence that they were consumed in 7500 BC
• I’m on fire. What can I do?
• When handling peppers, especially if it is a pepper you have never used before, wear gloves.  Some oils can blister skin or result in an allergic reaction. My story.
• The best way to ease the burn of flaming hot peppers or overly-spicy mustard of horseradish is with cold milk or yogurt. 
• Avoid water as it won’t mix with the oil and will only result in moving the heat to other parts of your mouth

• Cayenne, jalapeños, tabasco, birdseye chili, habañeros, and Scotch bonnets all contain capsaicin.
• Health: Weight Loss: capsaicin helps burn fat by consuming energy, also known as fat. The occasional boost of the hot stuff can significantly increase your fat burning.
• Capsaicin and vitamins A & C Hot peppers aid in the dissolution of fibrin, a necessary component for blood clots. These vitamins also strengthen blood vessels, which helps them adjust to fluctuations in blood pressure.
• Hot peppers provide plenty of vitamins your body needs including; vitamins A, C, K, B6 and folate. Vitamin C does pack one hell of a punch, with a whopping 10% in just one pepper
• Capsaicin may have benefit as an anti-inflammatory; headache and migraine relief. Because of its anti-inflammatory properties, hot peppers may also be able to reduce swelling associated with arthritis and asthma,
• Have you ever eaten spicy food and found that suddenly your stuffy nose was clear?
• Stuffed up? Capsaicin will also clear out congested nasal passages like nothing else and is helpful in treating sinus-related allergy symptoms
• Studies have shown capsaicin reduces sinus symptoms, such as nasal congestion, rhinorrhea, sneezing, coughing, and mucous production.
• Capsaicin sprays desensitize the mucous membranes in the nose, making them less irritated by airborne particles and quickly relieving symptoms of allergies and sinus congestion. By stimulating secretions to help clear mucus, these sprays prevent allergy triggers while keeping your nasal passages moist, clean, and free of bacteria.
• "Capsaicin possesses powerful antibacterial properties and is very effective in fighting and preventing chronic sinus infections.
• Small daily doses of capsaicin have even been shown to prevent chronic nasal congestion."
• Hospitals, universities and clinics around the world are using capsaicin for chronic headache patients with outstanding results. The all-natural ingredients relax the muscles and blood vessels around the eyes and forehead, providing fast relief.

• People have been using hot and spicy seasonings in their food for more than 6,000 years according to archaeologists.
• Christopher Columbus discovered chili peppers when he discovered the Americas in 1493.

 

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