Watch this on a woman with Mutiple Schlerosis-An Astonishing Recovery

Woman with advanced MS talks about curing herself on a Low Carb program with optimal nutrition.

Bone stock recipe

15 grams roasted garlic

150 gms roasted red onions

9 litres of water
325 gms tomato paste
60 gms cilantro with stems
1/2 kilo chicken back bones 
250 gms tomato pulp
100 gms salt  I would use Celtic Sea Salt or other such salt here
15 gms black pepper 
15 gms coconut oil

Roast onions and garlic in olive oil for approximately 15 to 20 minutes.

Add all ingredients to water, chicken and tomato paste.

Let simmer over low heat for at least 4 hours.

Chicken bones will disintegrate.

Approximate yield is 18 litres.

Freeze in user friendly containers and use as needed. Yum.

Candida: Ill Health Begins in the Gut

Candida Albicans: Usually found in the intestines in small amounts in a healthy bowel. It is a fungus, yeast or mold depending on what you want to call it. 
Candida has in the alternative health community, been known for a long time to cause a huge array of health problems.  You can find lists of symptoms anywhere on the net.  I believe the list of symptoms should be a long as my list of the side effects of eating carbs and more!
However Candida is only just starting to be recognized in the general medical community.


This is an abstract from a recent study confirming the inflammatory effects of Candida on the bowel and the many diseases that are connected to this infestation:
Inflammation and gastrointestinal Candida colonization.

Kumamoto CA.

Source

Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, 136 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111, USA. carol.kumamoto@tufts.edu

Abstract

Candida organisms commonly colonize the human gastrointestinal tract as a component of the resident microbiota. Their presence is generally benign. Recent studies, however, show that high level Candida colonization is associated with several diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Further, results from animal models argue that Candida colonization delays healing of inflammatory lesions and that inflammation promotes colonization. These effects may create a vicious cycle in which low-level inflammation promotes fungal colonization and fungal colonization promotes further inflammation. Both inflammatory bowel disease and gastrointestinal Candida colonization are associated with elevated levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-17. Therefore, effects on IL-17 levels may underlie the ability of Candida colonization to enhance inflammation. Because Candida is a frequent colonizer, these effects have the potential to impact many people.

Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

General theories and treatment to get rid of this yeast is to
use anti fungals and to replace bacteria with probiotics.
-but Candida Feeds on Carbohydrates!

In people who have over eaten large amounts carbohydrates or who were born to mothers who were infected with Candida, it is not only found in huge amounts in the bowel but also elsewhere in the body where it causes all sorts of trouble.

This little critter cannot be killed, beaten or surprised by an attack of anti fungals.  It just does a metamorphosis and becomes a little different therefore eluding all attempts at it's eradication.
Try to temporarily starve it out and what happens when you start to eat "normally again"?  It comes back.


And so it should.  Why?  Because this little critter is trying to save your life.
The digestive system wasn't designed to digest such a huge load of carbohydrates and
doesn't actually have the where with all to do so.  It is designed to digest mostly protein, fats and a little carb.
Now that your intestines are absolutely loaded with carbs, which includes fibre in the form of cellulose, if has to figure out how to deal with all this so it ferments it with, yes, Candida Albicans.


Candida Albicans doesn't stay in the bowel to try and digest all those carbs it spreads itself around anywhere it thinks it can help.   After all it must save (you) it's host in order for it to survive.


This is why this is a program for life.  This program has the food your digestive system was designed to digest.  If you go back to eating high amounts of carbs again, you will again start growing Candida so you body can deal with it.
Simple as simple.  You can't eradicate Candida but you can cease to give it nourishment. While ceasing to give Candida nourishment you can nourish your body with good foods that don't nourish Candida.  Your body will heal, and Candida  will exist only in small amounts like the body used to have when healthy.


You will need supplements to build you body back to a healthy state
Using this program which includes good nutrition, and supplements your body will be built back up to where you were when you were healthy.  This could be as long as before birth depending on what your parents handed down to you through their own health problems.


When your body is working correctly and is not overburdened by toxins it can then exist on good foods alone.  Up until that point you will need to use additional supplements to heal.


An example of this was evidenced by my husband who used to have a huge need for Vitamin B before he went on this programme.  It would manifest as very sore gums (he's had false teeth since his teenage years due to excessive coke drinking and passive smoking as a small child from his dad's cigarette habit)
Sometimes he would need many Vitamin B tablets a day to get his gums to stop hurting.  Thanks to this program he no longer gets this huge need for this vitamin.  He is still healing though and we have our usual healing dose of  this vitamin.

5 days in Los Angeles: they are using carbs to fill up instead of fat

Well,  I just did a quick dash to LA for a business trip.  The jet lag after 14 hours on a plane was the least of my worries.  What was the hardest was avoiding sugar!

The amount of sugar that is added to every single food in restaurants and cafes is quite scary.

I was told yesterday that there is even sugar in cheese now in the US. 

I just looked at Wiki at it tells me "American cheese" is made with milk,whey, milk fat, milk protein concentrate, whey protein concentrate, and salt. Where is the old way of making cheese?  European  cheeses are just made with whole milk just like they always were.

Anyway, what I really wanted to talk about was the cakes and confections I saw in the bakeries and cafes.  There were these huge single serve cakes that are so loaded with sugar that honestly they have sugar on top of another form of sugar. 

I saw toffee apples (toffee? apple I saw in a shop window), not just coated in toffee, but Rocky Road, Mars Bars and every conceivable sugar you could think of. Kids & aduts are eating these foods.  When I looked at them they just made me feel sick. OTT!  This is how other people should be looking at them too.  They are so out of touch with their bodies that they just don't get how poisonous these foods are.

                                                                              

This pastry adjacent was huge!  And just for one person.  Absolute poison.


I did my best in keeping to the LCHF diet. 
Just ordered the meat and vegetables for my lunch and dinner.   Eggs for breakfast.  This would be ok if there was a good fatty sauce (without sugar) to go with it.  But every sauce I ate had loads of sugar and no fat, so I started ordering meals without sauces.    But the trouble is there just isn't any fat used in the cooking either.  No wonder my meals weren't satisfying.  Fat make things tasty and there was just not (I swear) any fat, even the bacon was so fat free it was scary.  I finally realised I had to start asking for butter.  But even then it came in tiny amounts.  I needed to bring my own!  I needed more fat.

I tried to get ordinary cream to put into my decaf.  There is only sugary whipped cream available. I went into a grocery shop to buy some pouring cream and they didn't have any, only the sugary stuff.  I finally found some in a Health Food shop and put it in my drinks.

Next trip I will get a room with a kitchen, find a Health Food and buy ordinary unpackaged food and cook it myself.

About Gluten and Wheat

The highest and best way to consume gluten, which is responsible for celiac disease and the milder forms that manifest themselves as anything from mysterious rashes that come and go to diarrhea and other GI disturbances to arthritic aches and pains, is from wheat.
Other forms of food also contain this protein but not in the quantities that our modern wheat supplies.  


Gluten is something to give up. It's not good for you


But gluten isn't the only evil about wheat there is also evidence it is a super carb:


"Modern wheat is approximately 70 percent carbohydrate by weight.  The carbohydrate is in the form of a starch called amylopectin A.
The most digestible form of amylopectin, amylopectin A, is the form found in wheat.  Because it is the most digestible, it is the form that most enthusiastically increases blood sugar.  This explains why, gram for gram, wheat increases blood sugar to a greater degree than, say, kidney beans or potato chips.  The amylopectin A of wheat products, “complex” or no, might be regarded as a supercarbohydrate, a form of highly digestible carbohydrate that is more efficiently converted to blood sugar than nearly all the other carbohydrate foods, simple or complex." [Italics in the original.]

"...the degree of processing, from a blood sugar standpoint, makes little difference: Wheat is wheat, with various forms of processing or lack of processing, simple or complex, high-fiber or low-fiber, all generating similar high blood sugars.  Just as “boys will be boys,” amylopectin A will be amylopectin A.  In healthy, slender volunteers, two medium-sized slices of whole wheat bread increase blood sugar by 30 mg/dl (from 93 to 123 mg/dl), no different from white bread.  In people with diabetes, both white and whole grain bread increase blood sugar 70 to 120 mg/dl over starting levels."  

Extract from "Wheat Belly" by Dr Davis

Wheat is now being seen as an addictive grain. Go to the supermarket and just look at how many and how much of our food is now made and including wheat.

My betting is the hardest food for you to give up will be wheat.  I know because it was mine.

Dr Dr. Davis has had people leave his office in tears after telling them they couldn't handle wheat and needed to stop eating it. I doubt many of them were thinking, “Well, this is just too good to be true!”

Use this link  http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/2011/09/08/the-grain-producers-respond-to-wheat-belly/

What you might feel emotionally and how to help yourself

My acupuncturist was talking to me the other day and told me a story of a woman he treats who has been eating really well for 3 years.

 

She told him that, after being on a really good diet for 18 months, she was horrified when she found herself going into a cake store and buying a whole cake and stuffing the whole thing in her mouth as fast as she could. She said she couldn't seem to stop herself. She was berating herself mercilessly because it made her feel so terrible and she felt so sick.

My acupuncturist said one thing to her and to me,  he said,

 "You need to attend to that part of yourself that got comfort from foods you ate as a child. That part of you still needs comfort but you need to find a different way of getting that comfort. You can't just ignore that place hoping it will go away because it won't." 

When you start this program you probably will have feelings of deprivation and possibly depression.  If you can become aware of these feelings at the time then it is a really good idea to find some form of replacement for that nurturing  that you received from your comfort food.  

We need to retrain our minds to come up with other ways of nurturing our child other than food.


Important: Biochemical speaking make sure you are getting plenty of B vitamins like the ones I have recommended.  Or eat lots of beef liver.  Depression and low energy can be caused by not having enough of B-6, B-12 and Folate. 

The LCHF foods on this program are not addictive like carbohydrate foods.  I'm betting that most of the foods you have found comforting will have been pretty high in carbs.
It is not likely your comfort food was spinach or nuts!

You won't find yourself craving an egg or a curry  but you will come to really enjoy your food none the less.

Other peoples reactions
When you start having some great healing from this diet you will want to tell people what you have done.  Be prepared for some flack.  Some people can be very protective over there carbohydrate addiction.  
My Story-

  I was going through a really hard time at the beginning of this program, feeling really tired, doing a lot of healing and emotionally going through the withdrawal of the loss of my comfort foods (carbs). Right at this time my best friend told me that people can't live without carbs as they are absolutely necessary for life. I told him I was still eating carbs but only vegetables.  He ignored this and went on with telling me that it's just not natural to not eat carbs and people can't be happy without them.  It wasn't because he was mean, it was simply that he couldn't imagine himself without his comfort carbs.  
Funnily enough I finally encouraged him to start the programme as he is pre diabetic, overweight and always getting sick.  Although he loved bacon and eggs for breakfast and he lost a lot of weight, he wouldn't give up the fruit and so his addiction won out and he went back to his old high carb diet again.  Back to a muffin and latte for breakfast!  
"My body knows what to eat!"
People will tell you they know what their body needs and it lets them know what they need to eat, so they don't need help with their diet.  Of course they will say this and then in the next breath tell you of some ailment they have.
 If we were able to eat right from childhood the above statement would be true.  
However there are learned aspects of the hunger drive. These can be blamed on early childhood parental practices, in which parents put babies out of touch with the natural physiology of when, what, and how much to eat. Humans have this natural mechanisms, but humans have learned not to pay attention.
"Oh I've tried that", people will say

and then they proceed to tell you how it wasn't right for them.  Of course they usually haven't kept it up for very long because they start to have carb withdrawal symptoms and they think it't because their body doesn't like being off carbs.

 "The more technical term for carbohydrate withdrawal is “keto-adaptation,” because the body is adapting to the state of ketosis that results from eating fewer than sixty or so grams of carbohydrates a day.  This reaction is why some who try carbohydrate restriction give it up quickly. (“Carbohydrate withdrawal is often interpreted as a ‘need for carbohydrate,’ ” says Dr Westman.  “It’s like telling smokers who are trying to quit that their withdrawal symptoms are caused by a ‘need for cigarettes’ and then suggesting they go back to smoking to solve the problem.”)"

Quote from Gary Taubes author of Why We Get Fat.

Addictions for Wheat and Sugar
Some people can even get quite angry  when given the possibility that they could give up their comfort carbs. See my post on wheat and gluten for more information on this.
Sugar cravings for some people are similar to Heroin addiction cravings.
My Story-
I got the weirdest cravings in the beginning of the program.  I had given up gluten (bread) a quite a few years ago, so I was surprised when the visions of food I had was this white toast with margarine that I once had in my childhood.
 Hey, I can understand perhaps a buttery croissant craving, but give me a break, white toast and margarine? 
But then I realised there was a big emotional component to this craving, because it was a point in my childhood where my mum was working all the time at a hospital, I was lonely, but I was allowed to go to the hospital kitchen where the cook (she was nice to me) let me eat all this white toast (we only ever has wholemeal at home) and huge amounts of margarine (we only had butter at home).  
This was my comfort food at that time and that memory was being resurfaced because it was an old way I got comfort in a time of need.  I guess the feelings of needing comfort were surfacing because I wasn't squashing it down with any normal comfort foods.


Ways to Nurture yourself:
Stop eating all sweet things.  This is vital and will enable your addiction to abate and you will not longer crave carbs.


  Instead you could:      

•  Watch an inspirational movie
•  Watch or read something funny
•  Having a cup of good decaf with cream
•  Listening to my Daily Practice for Self Nurturing- here 
•  Journal your thoughts and feelings and needs
•  Read a great awe inspiring book
•  Go for a stroll really looking at your surroundings and appreciating them.
• Get support from a good friend who understands how important this program is to you and your health.

To download my Audio 'Daily Practice for Self Nurturing' right click the mousse on 'here'  above and go to 'save link as'
Here is a pdf list of Feelings and Needs to use with my Daily Practice for Self Nurturing.

  

Avoid TV commercials of other people eating.  Eating, is an overt and socially learned behaviour. Often we humans eat when others are eating, even if we are not hungry. Also advertisers use pictures of people eating when advertising food to get you to eat their food even if your aren't hungry.  

Go to celebrations having already eaten a full meal and bring something to munch on also.

Food is associated with celebrations, and usually food is part of the celebration. In most cultures, it is not acceptable to say "no thank you" to a dessert, such as a birthday party for example.  You will need to make a stand for yourself at this point. 

 Say something like, "I'd love to have some cake, but my doctor would kill me."  

Unconscious Eating
You may find yourself eating something before you actually become aware of what you are doing.  Forgive yourself and get back to the program right away.


If you cheat forgive yourself!
More than likely you will cheat sometimes.  Don't use it to give yourself a hard time nor to give up.  Yes, you have made it harder on yourself physically but no need to make it harder on yourself emotionally.


Keep a journal
 The road to health, despite so many in the Low carb community saying it's only the beginning which is rough, has its low points every now and again.
The road to great health will take time and there will be moments that you feel fantastic and THEN...there will me moments of healing reactions.  
These moments will often come just after a time when you have been feeling good because its then your body has reached a place where it can now do some more healing.  Thus the healing reactions.
At the very start of this program think of all your health challenges and write them down in a health journal.
You will need your journal because it will remind you of all the health problems that have already disappeared and so reinforce your commitment in the times when things aren't quite so easy. 
I guarantee you will forget the health challenges that quietly disappear.
I have had to remind my husband, of many of his health problems that have gone.  I would ask him, "How's your scaly head?, which he had had for more years than we have been married. "Oh it's gone", he says.  He just didn't and still can't remember ailments that have gone unless I remind him.


And most biggest of all: Get Support from others who are successfully on the program
It is so important to have peer support from others who have gone through the same problems as you and have come out the other side while being on this program.
No matter how silly the question might seem I can guarantee others have gone through something similar and can be there to reassure you.
This is something I would like to offer you on this Blog.


And last but not least check out some of the other Blogs online to see there are some really sane people doing the same program as you
For instance Dr Michael Eades has a blog and does the program himself: http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/#
Dr Jay Wortman also has a blog.  He did a study and movie using this diet on Eskimos.
He and his family are dedicated HFLC's:

You will need these supplements

I know you don't want to take anything.  But.....for a while to get healthy these supplements will increase the speed of your recovery.


The vitamins and minerals you will need


Vitamin A & D - Natural retinol only 
Vitamin B Complex
Vitamin C with bioflavonoids
Vitamin K2
Calcium Citrate  
Magnesium Citrate 
Omega 3
Vitamin E -d-alpha tocopherol
Niacin - Natural only (this will give you hot flushes which the synthetic form will no. the synthetic form will not work as nearly well)

Take all these twice a day with meals


If you would like to replace the Omega 3's and Vitamins A and D with Cod liver oil then the best one would be Green Pasture Products: Blue Ice High-Vitamin Fermented Cod Liver Oil, www.nourishingecology.com.au
You can also get this product with this product with added butter oil.  Butter oil has plenty of Vitamin K2 which has been found to be deficient in many people who have Intestinal Permeability (Candida)


Betaine Hydrochloric Acid tablets- Take with meals if needed.  I believe if you have any gastro intestinal problems you will need this supplement until you can make enough stomach acid on your own. 
Vitalzyme - you can use this or not.  I have found it to really help my energy and digestion but it's a bit pricey. Just one in the morning before food
Coconut Oil - Use for cooking and as a supplement.  Slowly work up to eating 3 desertspoons a day plus when is used in cooking. 

You might also need Hydrochloric acid tablets with you meals.  I will have a blog entry on this subject.

Potassium bicarbonate or use AlkaBalance
And if you have Alzheimer's or Parkinson disease or
a predisposition to these diseases- MCT Oil

Epsom Salt Baths- take as many as one a day to begin for the first 2 months.  Provides a good supply of magnesium and sulphur. Sulphur is particularly deficient in those who have been vegetarian.  Sulphur is good for any persistent skin issues,  sleep apnea sufferers, restless leg syndrome, and those with fibromyalgia.  Meat & eggs contain high quantities of sulphur so after being on this program for a while you will have a good supply coming in.

You can use cod liver oil instead of the A & D and the Omega 3's.  It is just finding a product that is a good enough price and quality.
The site iHerb USA  is a great place to buy these supplements. They are a large company and because the price is so good the postage is not a problem.  If you use this code WIM869 you will get US$5 off your first order and I will benefit by getting bit off my order. If you use the links above you will not need to put in the code.


Take all these supplements just after you have eaten except for the Vitalzyme.  Take this before you eat.  Vitamin C you can take as needed.