A recent blog on Selene River Press concerning breaking sugar addictions is a great reminder this time of year, when our attention to food involves sugar, sugar, and more sugar.

During a time when we focus on giving thanks for our many blessings, all too often we create conditions which we may not end up so blessed or thankful later. With the continual rise in diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and many degenerative diseases, we need to be acutely aware of the causes. With the right information, so many of these issues can be avoided.

Yams are a delightful food, rich in fiber and vitamin A. Why must we insist on adding sugar to them? Cranberries are tart, have both antibacterial and astringent properties, and are commonly used to treat urinary infections and peptic ulcers caused by Helicobacter Pylori. Why do we have to add a ton of sugar to these wonderful berries, which are high in natural vitamin C, creating a substance which can incite infection? 

Many traditional foods around this time of year are heavily laden with sugar, far exceeding the FDA’s recommended limit for daily consumption. 

Nearly 80% of food offered us by our local grocery stores contain hidden or partially hidden sugars. The only way you can take back your health is to learn how to identify these hidden sugars and exercise something called willpower. Knowing when you’ve exceeded your limits and taking back control of your life is important because no one but you can make these changes.

Removing liquid sugars can be one of the hardest, but financially rewarding. When we talk of liquid sugars, think of soda pops, energy drinks, sports drinks, sweet tea, liquid meal replacement shakes, flavored milk, fruit juices, and especially sweetened coffee drinks, which so many are addicted to. When you consider many of these syrup flavored coffee drinks cost somewhere in the vicinity of $5 each, and many consume at least one daily. That’s just under two thousand dollars a year, which you may eventually need to treat the diabetes you’re working on.

When we think of sugar, it’s not often we place it in the addictive drug category, but it’s every bit as addictive as heroin. If you don’t believe me, just try to get a Pepsi addict to leave it alone. You may have a fight on your hands unless they are sincerely motivated. 

As an example of sugar overload, consider this: An eight ounce Minute Maid orange juice contains 24 grams of sugar. An eleven ounce can of SlimFast chocolate shake, 16 grams. A twenty ounce Gatorade Thirst Quencher, 34 grams, Starbucks grande carmel frappuccino, 64 grams, and twenty ounce Mountain Dew 77 grams of sugar.

You may say, “That doesn’t look all that bad.” Look again. The World Health Organization as well as other major medical institutions sets the recommended limit for daily sugar consumption at 25 grams. As you see, those listed above have either exceeded this level or put you at risk of exceeding it with your next meal. Remember, they add up. 

The result of exceeding the limits on sugar intake isn’t always readily observed. This tends to be an issue of accumulation. With so many autoimmune cases come through my door, I have to ask the question, “How did cellular DNA leak into this person’s blood stream?” 

Since the only cellular toxin found in blood is supposed to be CO2, something had to divert cellular debris, left over from the break down of old cells, into the blood. What’s supposed to occur, is, the debris gets absorbed into the reticulo-endothelial system, then out through the lymph. This is a fluid matrix around cells, designed to absorb waste, and move it into the lymph system for disposal. The disposal involves shredding up the DNA, or cellular blueprint so it can’t go elsewhere, creating improper tissue where it’s not supposed to be. 

Since sugar creates an abundance of waste in the system, we see where the intracellular matrix gets thick and fails to clear cellular debris. When this happens, we see waste material spilling over into the general circulation, stimulating immune response, resulting in histamine release with the symptoms of a cold. This is just the beginning of deeper problems. During this time of year, be more sugar conscious and learn how to just say no. To help divert sugar cravings, the use of the herb Gymnema can be very helpful.

The botanical I’ve been making for the last thirty years called my cold and flu remedy has characteristics that increase immune system function and lymphatic drainage. This is a really good place to start. Contact the office if you are interested in obtaining this excellent 

Without bones, mobility is impossible. This structure gives us the ability to be strong and mobile. When disease destroys this structure, life becomes more and more difficult.

Dr Weston Price called arthritis a cooked food disease. He found that when raw proteins were consumed, the body was able to maintain transport of protein bound minerals into the strong structure of bones, resulting in healthy skeletons. 

In his travels around the world, seeking answers to why degenerative diseases occurred, his findings are timeless. The archeological discoveries and dietary trends among native peoples from around the world, all spell out why we’re seeing the kind of disease processes in operation today. 

In his book, “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” circa 1939, we see where people eating a traditional, and very simple diet consisting of unprocessed and raw foods yielded excellent health, with none of the degenerative diseases we see today.

Among the skulls and skeletons he examined, he found no evidence of tooth decay or arthritis. The sad thing he did find, was those who’d left the traditional diets and gone to more of the western diets of today all exhibited the diseases of malnutrition which we are seeing today, and increasing exponentially.

When raw proteins are no longer consumed, and these proteins have been folded by the cooking process, they are no longer capable of being implemented into the structure of bone. As you may recall from previous reports, bones consist of one third protein, one third mineral, and one third water. Throwing calcium at the bones without the protein to hold it can’t succeed. Stopping the degradation of old bone because the body can’t make new isn’t the answer.

Prior to the movement that made raw milk illegal, milk was indeed beneficial in the protection and strengthening of the skeleton. Pasteurization destroys the proteins in milk, folding them, making it more of a dead, and in reality, a toxic food. As most will agree, milk and other pasteurized dairy foods will aggravate a cold. This is just one more bacteria laden protein the immune system has to try and clear, resulting in a histamine response.

So, just how do we go about getting raw proteins into the diet. Pasteurization is used to preserve things. Juices that are pasteurized have all the life cooked out of them. If left raw, they tend to ferment on their own. Preservation of our foods in a live state is difficult. In some countries, we see where foods are obtained fresh from the market daily, with very little reliance on refrigeration or any other kind of preservation. In many cases, we see where these people have much healthier systems than us here in America.

Living in the northern climates we find that many root foods have excellent nourishment available. In the case of the Eskimo’s which Dr Price investigated, they lived on fish, seal, and whale blubber. Doesn’t sound all that appetizing, and when we look at the cholesterol myth, we’d expect them to be dropping dead of heart disease. Surprisingly enough, these people were exceedingly healthy with great blood pressure and wonderful stamina.

The unfortunate thing he found throughout the world was how many of the various members of these cultures had left their traditional foods for more of the western diet, and were suffering all the disease conditions we see in our country. 

Once we see breakdown of bone structure with it’s DNA released into the blood stream, we see the makings of autoimmune activity seen in osteoarthritis. Here is where the body has made antibodies against bone, and as long as there is leakage of DNA into the blood, there will be an active attack. The appropriate action is to use the oral antigen of bone to call off the attack on the bones while supplying raw bone determinants to allow the bones to heal and stop leaking antigens into the system.

When we think about allowing for good protein to be digested and absorbed into the system, we need to have adequate hydrochloric acid available in the stomach to do it’s job. I have a physiology question I like to ask patients: A deficiency of what one substance in the human body leads to the greatest number of pathways to death? (The answer is Hydrochloric acid)  Do you think this to be why antacid medications say: can cause osteoporosis? Worse is the practice of bypassing the stomach altogether.

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Traumatic brain injuries have the potential of creating damage resulting in DNA leakage across blood brain barriers, this allows for the body to initiate immune response against your brain and nerves. The greatest threat isn’t with the initial injury, but subsequent injuries where the blood brain barrier is reopened. Now the body has antibodies created from the initial leakage of brain DNA. Once the blood brain barrier is reopened due to repeat traumas, these antibodies have access to reach brain tissue and destroy it. 

The medical establishment has no biomarkers with which to identify Alzheimer’s disease, but if brain autoantibodies were tested for, the ability to find this well in advance could be greatly increased. If identified, use of a protomorphogen, or oral antigen of brain and nerve tissue has the ability to tie up antibodies, allowing the brain an opportunity to avoid damage while the blood brain barrier is re-established. This should be considered in any contact sport where head trauma is potential. So thankful that my short stint riding bareback broncs was uneventful.

Recovery from traumatic brain injury varies greatly. Studies show that within one week, 40% show recovery. By week two, 60%. By week 3, 89%, and some take over a year to recover. One of the greatest predictors of poor outcome from TBI is dizziness. This has shown a 6.4 times greater likelihood of taking more than a month for healing. Here is where active intervention should always be instituted. It’s been shown that being knocked unconscious isn’t any more damaging than some of the seemingly mild head injuries.

Damage and recovery is highly dependent on the foundational health of the individual. High school kids recover slower than college athletes, and professional athletes quicker than the college athlete. This can be due to conditioning, but more likely due to the stage of growth and maturation of the brain and nervous tissue. A diet with good fatty acids to nourish brain tissue makes a profound difference.

How we nourish our kids can greatly impact the outcome of TBI. When there’s a shortage of essential fatty acids in the diet, there will be poorly maintained nerve cells, allowing for easier damage. Use of hydrogenated fats like margarine and deep fried foods, as well as the majority of snack foods, displaces the healthy fats which make up the myelin sheath of the nerves. Unfortunately, many of our kids live on foods which fit into this unhealthy category, and are more susceptible to negative outcome from TBI.

Protection of the brain and nervous system starts with good nutrition. Fats like healthy fish oils, and the anti-pellagra vitamin, niacinamide are essential in protecting the system and allowing for healing of the tissues. Besides niacinamide, which shows deficiencies defined as the 4 D’s (dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, and death), Riboflavin is important as well since deficiency can result in nerve tissue damage, resulting in symptoms of depression and hysteria.

The combination of these specific B vitamins is known as the ‘G’ factor and is a must to add to a protocol of repair while the specific protomorphogens are used to protect brain, nerves, hypothalamus, and pituitary gland. Let us assist you in repairing nerve and brain injuries.

We love to compare excellent eyesight with rabbits. There’s a close connection between good eyesight and vitamin A. Since carrots are packed with vitamin A, and we’re familiar with Bugs Bunny always crunching on a carrot, we assume a rich source of vitamin A will help keep our eyes healthy.

Vitamin A is wonderful, but only one aspect of good eye health. You see, rhodopsin, the visual pigment which allows us to perceive images when they’re projected on the retina of our eye, is highly dependent on vitamin A for it’s formation, and a healthy liver for conversion and storage. 

What creates the greatest problem of poor eyesight isn’t a lack of rhodopsin, but failure of the the eye to focus the image on the retina. If you’ve ever used a manual focus camera, and failed to get your subject in focus, that’s what’s happening. Glasses change how the image meets the retina. If the eye fails to change shape enough, glasses finish the job.

Stiff membranes, muscular weakness, calcified, hardened cells, liver problems, and circulatory imbalances, all contribute to visual impairments. Finding the cause helps with the cure.

Since your body isn’t just an eye, it’s important to know what else is going on in your system to aid your visual acuity. Specialization can cause create tunnel vision. When you evaluate the entire system, it will give clues as to why we suffer various conditions, including poor eyesight. 

The eye, just like all other organs can suffer autoimmune activities. This can show up as destruction of the retina due to macular degeneration. This is where increased vascular tissue shows up, taking the place of the rods and cones of the retina, and crowding out the nerves that relay information to the brain. 

Increased vascularization of the eyes signals vascular impairment elsewhere in the body, and autoimmune activity against the eye itself. In cases like this, the protomorphogen of eye would be used to act as an oral antigen to bind up antibody activity against the eyes. Two cases I’m presently working with have had to get their prescription changed, as their eyesight has actually been getting better. This is rarely the case if left to the natural degradation of the eyes.

As I’ve shown in the past, the juice of the fresh green buckwheat leaf has wonderful benefits in aiding circulation and improving the tone of the blood vessels. To improve the health of any tissue, a good source of nutrition and oxygen is critical. Impaired blood flow will always lead to increased tissue damage. 

When it comes to flexibility of tissues, good fatty acids are a must. Vitamin F, which I talked about last week, assists in calcium regulation in the tissues. We need the calcium to effect both contraction, and relaxation of tissues. This allows for better focus. It’s not uncommon for me to see many cases of strained muscles this time of year with an increased intake of sugar, knocking calcium out of the tissues. With that, both a good source of essential fatty acids along with a calcium which is fully assimilable, like calcium lactate is important. 

Another component required for healthy muscle contraction is potassium. This is the nutrient missing in many of our young people who refuse to eat their vegetables. It’s not just oranges and bananas where you get this super nutrient. Alfalfa is rich in potassium, and the source used in the organic mineral supplement I dispense here in my office.

Nerve function is critical, both in activating muscles to both contract and relax, as well as transporting information to the occipital lobe of the brain. B vitamins, especially niacinamide, are required for healthy nerve function. Again, evaluating systemic nerve function may reveal an underlying cause of visual disturbances. Does your eye doctor ask critical questions about other health issues or is he or she just looking at your eyes? What about your liver and drug usage?

Since our eyes are part of the brain, they can warn of impending problems with cognition. Dementia and Alzheimer’s could be signaling other nerve related issues. Rapid changes in eyesight could be a major warning sign. Can we prevent dementia? Why not?

One of the supports I use, consists of all the elements I’ve noted here, and more. There’s even protomorphogen support for both eye and bone. This product has been making changes in eyesight and could help prevent catastrophic events in peoples lives. If interested, call for help.