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Cold Shower

25/9/2021

Well, I finally did it.

I had been contemplating taking a cold shower for over a year and didn’t have the guts to do it. It had always felt daunting to me. But I did it this morning and it really is an exhilarating experience. Amazingly, it wasn’t too difficult nor stressful.

It usually takes about 30 seconds for the water to warm up when I start the shower. I decided to centre myself with deep breaths, stood just under the shower, turned it on, got my arms wet and then slowly crept under the shower. The water warmed up slowly and I felt good that I got through the 30 seconds or so of cold water. I centred myself again taking slow deep breaths and turned the dial to cold, set the timer for 45 seconds, continued with slow deep breaths. A little more difficult, but I made it.

Wim Hof on YouTube and a few others expounds the benefits of taking cold showers. There are lots of health benefits for doing so.

https://youtu.be/lDJaPylV_aM
https://youtu.be/xTVMGyJ8cZU
https://youtu.be/5UkwK9sBTGo

I also thought that since the future of energy supply is bleak, I might as well bite the bullet and plunge into this routine. I think I’ll be able to get used to it within 10 days. It’s good to be prepared.

Try it - not just for your health, but in view of the impending fuel crisis.

Happy Saturday!

Leptin Resistance and the Immune System

29/8/2021

is your first line of defense. Look after it and it will look after you.

We now know that sugar compromises the immune system. Sugar consumption causes a huge range of health issues, which we were taught were caused by eating too much meat and fat. The truth is now out, but it is not widely promoted for a variety of reasons. It is up to you to do your own research and understand and "unteach" yourself so that you can look forward to a healthier lifestyle.

Unhealthy issues such as weight gain, diabetes, inflammatory issues, and more can be reversed by eating real food. Once you drop the unhealthy carbohydrates from your diet and eat real food, you will feel the difference within days. Don't be afraid to try it out.

Here's a video that I recommend watching. It's packed with good information that explains how you can improve your immune system and reverse most health issues.

I is for Immune System

16/8/2021

The Immune system seems to be something no one in authority wants to talk about these days!

Why is that?

Why is it that we are being made to believe that there is only one solution for overcoming the “pandemic”?

Why are governments so desperately pushing people to take the experimental medical intervention trial inoculation?

Why do they keep telling people to “stay safe” instead?

What does “staying safe” involve?

It would appear that “staying safe” involves wearing face covering, social distancing, and participating in the experimental medical intervention trial inoculation.

I believe “staying safe” is about strengthening the immune system so that you can be and stay healthy and strong and then be safe from environmental pathogens.

Most of us were born with a sophisticated and powerful defence system that’s called the immune system. It is powerful and works automatically for you as long as you look after it.

You do this by:
• Keeping stress at a normal level
• Eating real and nutritious food
• Supplement with zinc, vitamins C & D if necessary
• Exercise
• Fasting
• Being exposed to microbes in the environment to develop immunity – (being in a sterile environment for extended periods of time does not help to develop immunity)

The immune system may be weakened by age, illness, stress, pre-existing problems, being overweight and auto-immune issues. Nutrition & stress impacts the immune system the most.

Sugar, derived from carbohydrates such as bread, flour, cakes, etc, paralyses the immune system and causes metabolic illnesses such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart problems, obesity and more. Most of these illnesses are reversible by a diet and lifestyle change.

High levels of stress produce cortisol in the body which triggers auto-immune issues and lowers immunity. It has the most profound effect on the immune system. Even the best nutritious diet cannot help when one is under a great deal of stress.

Some ways to isolate stress:
• Go for long walks
• Get good quality sleep
• Be in an environment that’s supportive of stress
• Supplement with Vitamin B1
• Meditation/relaxation

I believe that it is my responsibility to ensure that my immune system is strong and healthy. I believe that my strong immune system will protect me from harmful pathogens in my environment. I believe that if my immune system is kept strong through the various ways listed above, I do not have to depend on medical intervention to “stay safe”. I believe that self-care is how you take your power back and live life as normally as possible.

You can learn more about the immune system and what you can do to look after it. Here is a free mini course that you can do in under a couple of hours. Take the time to invest in your health.

https://youtu.be/RHjX7A02rqc

It really is not difficult to make changes if you put your heart and mind into it. I never thought I’d ditch the unhealthy carbohydrates and fast (I eat once a day). Once I got into it and saw the results (weight loss), I was on a roll!

Another important thing to note is that LDL in cholesterol plays a crucial protective role in our immune system. Taking statins unnecessarily is not helpful to the immune system. This is supported by Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/can-live-life-without-statins-cardiologist-says-can/

There is a place for pills and medical intervention. Unfortunately, it seems to be the first “go to” remedy for most ailments these days.
It’s time to take control of your life. Take time to learn. Make the effort. Your life and your health are your responsibility to maintain – not the governments’ or the doctors’.

I is for Immune System

H is for Health

15/8/2021

What is health?

Health is generally defined as the absence of disease. It is also a state of inner joyfulness and positive wellbeing.

We are the creators of our own health or disease. Our body is the most priceless possession, and we should learn to take care of it as best as we can. It is a daily duty we should indulge in, otherwise, we shall not be able to keep our minds strong and clear.

Good health is not something we can buy. It can be an extremely valuable savings account. Our health must be treated as an investment, not an expense. Health is the real wealth, not the pieces of gold and silver. All the money in the world can’t buy you back good health. It costs money to stay healthy, but it’s even more expensive to get sick. Health is like money. We never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

Take care of your body - it’s the only place you have to live. If your body’s not right, the rest of your day will go all wrong. No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature. The food we eat can either be the safest and the most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. The preservation of health is easier than the cure. Take care of yourself by being aware of what you consume. It’s not just what you put in your mouth, but also what you take in through your other senses of sight, sound, touch, and smell.

Love yourself enough to live a healthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle not only changes your body. It changes your mind, your attitudes, and your moods. Self-care is how you take your power back. When you have your health, you have everything. Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

Being fit and healthy isn’t a fad or a trend. It is a lifestyle. True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body, and spirit. Motivate the mind and the body will follow.

“Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.” William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice.
Gardening is not easy; it involves a large amount of dirt, sweat, and failure. But the rewards, which go beyond the final results each year, are well worth the effort. And the effort itself is often a pleasure, especially as experience teaches us the most efficient and successful methods.

As with gardening, it is surprisingly easy to train one’s tastes away from harmful treats and toward more nourishing ones. I know. I’ve been there and done it. I never would have believed that I would be able to do without chocolate - I hardly eat chocolate these days! I eat only real food when I'm hungry and that's usually once a day. I am fit and healthy and I have a good immune system I can depend on.

There's a wealth of resources that can help with improving and maintaining your health. Here's one of them:
https://phcuk.org/

Many conditions are reversible by changing one's diet. It's been too easy to use medical intervention to treat the symptoms than to look at dealing with what caused the condition in the first place, which more often than not, is due to what we consume.

Day 26 Press Up Challenge - Look After Your Immune System and It Will Look After You

21/12/2020

Your immune system is your natural first line of defence. If you look after it, it will be your friend.

Ways to look after your immune system:

Eat natural healthful foods
Supplement with Vitamin C & D
Exercise regularly
Reduce stress
Practice intermittent fasting

More information:
https://youtu.be/VTbxoRkRkTs

https://youtu.be/6zgzLdZg31w

Day 25 Press Up Challenge - Why Do You Get Gallstones?

17/12/2020

The gallbladder is an organ that stores bile made in the liver and concentrates the stored bile.

Bile is used in the digestive process to break up and help digest the saturated fat.

The gallbladder has muscular walls that contract and squeezes out the bile when saturated fat is present.

A low-fat high-carb diet contains little saturated fat. This means that the gallbladder cannot do its job to contract its muscle walls to secrete bile into the digestive system. When the gallbladder is not used, the bile that is stored continues to concentrate and eventually crystalizes to form stones.

Diets that increase the risk of getting gallstones are:
• low-fat diets
• whole grains
• carbs, starch, sugar

Evidence of this can be found here: https://gut.bmj.com/content/54/6/823

Evidence shows that low carb high fat & keto diets do not cause gallstones.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24321208/

Other risks of getting gallstones include
• Women over 40 with high estrogen levels.
• People with high insulin levels.

If you haven't eaten saturated fat for a long time, it is advisable to introduce it gradually to allow the gallbladder to get back into shape.

Use it or lose it!

Eat real food
Get and stay healthy

Please watch Dr Ken Berry's video for more information https://youtu.be/zgO7gIaG_Zg

Day 24 Press Up Challenge | The Benefits Of Fasting

14/12/2020

Fasting is not starvation. It is the voluntary avoidance of food. Food is available, but you choose not to eat.

Fasting allows the body to use its stored energy by burning off excess body fat.

Body fat is food energy that has been stored away. If you don't eat, the body will consume its own fat for energy.

When we eat, there is usually more energy generated than can be immediately consumed. The excess is stored away as fat for later use. Insulin is a hormone that is involved in the storage of food energy.

When we eat, insulin rises to help to store the excess energy as glucose in the liver as well as produce fat in the liver.

When we do not eat, insulin levels fall to signal the body to start burning stored fat because there is no more coming through food.

Some possible benefits of fasting include:

weight and fat loss
improved metabolic health
increased growth hormones
increased energy
improved mental clarity and concentration

Eat Real Food
Eat Less Frequently
Get & Stay Healthy

Day 22 Press Up Challenge | Carbohydrates & Sugar Equivalent

10/12/2020

How do you know how much carbohydrate to consume safely if you want to follow a low-carbohydrate lifestyle?

Dr David Unwin in the UK has successfully helped a large proportion of his patients reverse Type 2 Diabetes and lose fat by following a low-carb lifestyle. Many GPs in the UK are also recommending this lifestyle approach to deal with weight loss and diabetes.

To make it easier to identify which starchy carbs to limit or avoid, Dr Unwin produced a chart with sugar equivalents for these foods. This link will take you to a variety of downloadable charts, which are available in other languages as well. https://phcuk.org/sugar/

This article reported on Dr Unwin’s success and contains testimonies of several people who have followed the low carb lifestyle. http://dailym.ai/3gASBEq

What we often think is healthy is not. Take skimmed milk for instance, it has a higher sugar content compared to full fat milk. A breakfast of a 200 ml serving of apple juice has 8 teaspoons of sugar. A serving of 30g of Special K cereal has 4 teaspoons of sugar. That is why when you have cereals and juice for breakfast, you will find that you’re usually hungry before lunch and have to reach for a snack to tide you over until lunchtime, like for example, a 120g banana, which has the equivalent of nearly 6 teaspoons of sugar.

How can we change the metabolic process and improve our health?

Essentially, we eat less often, which means we extend the time between each meal, and using something good in your body (fat) instead of putting something bad (sugar) into the body.

If you can work towards a fasting window of 17-18 hours, ie an eating window of between 6-7 hours, after 2-3 weeks you will find that your body will start to find the fat stores and use fat for fuel instead of sugar, and this is how fat loss starts and other metabolic issues begin to reverse.

Eat Real Food to get and Stay Healthy.

Day 21 Press Up Challenge | How To Have An Effective Immune System

8/12/2020

Day 21 Press Up Challenge
Today I have achieved 50 press-ups in 1 go. I am well pleased indeed. Prior to the challenge, I struggled to do 20. Since using Wim Hof's breathing method prior to doing the set of press-ups, I have gradually increased the number in a set. As with everything, it takes time to build the numbers up.

The Forgotten Immune System
Our immune system is there to help and protect us, not harm us. Unless we do nothing to prevent it from working in our best interest, it will continue to be our lifelong friend and healthy companion.

We are all born with an immune system that is in place to help us fight pathogens, ie bacteria, viruses, fungi. Therefore it is our responsibility to look after this natural first line of defence.

We can do this by making sure that we
• Eat the right food
• Have enough rest
• Sleep well
• Limit/avoid toxic substances (physical & sub-conscious) in our environment
• Exercise appropriately

Our immune system can be our friend or foe. We keep it as our friend by doing the things that keep us healthy. Those healthy things keep our immune system strong, and doing unhealthy things weakens our immune system.

Doing the right things helps our immune system stay strong.
Doing the wrong things weakens it.
Be kind to your immune system and it will be kind to you.

More information can be found here:

The immune system in brief: https://youtu.be/fSEFXl2XQpc

The most dangerous foods for your immune system, why they are dangerous, and what other lifestyle habits you can do to boost your immunity even more: https://youtu.be/wSqkl2bJ-tw

Day 20 Press Up Challenge | Sugar And Cancer Link

6/12/2020

The link between Sugar and Cancer

The body converts starchy carbohydrates & highly processed foods into sugar, which raises insulin levels. Too much insulin leads to obesity and other metabolic health issues including cancer. Insulin also supports the growth of cancer cells as it acts as a growth factor in the body (Insulin Growth Factor IGF 1). https://phenq.com/blog/what-is-igf-1/

What we eat and how often we eat affects cancer growth.

My husband, Bill, has had cancer since 2013 and has had several operations for different cancers during this time. He made a conscious decision to change his eating habits 6 months ago following the success I had and also the effect the current virus had on people with metabolic health issues. He has ample to eat, he is hardly hungry and he enjoys what he eats. He has lost 3 stones in weight/fat, dropped 2 dress sizes, improved his immunity and feels quite well.

Once again, the importance of following a low carbohydrate real food diet is emphasised. This way of eating helps you to eat less frequently and enables you to reverse most metabolic issues you may have, such as excess weight/fat, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart health, allergies, inflammation, poor immunity and more.

Dr Jason Fung is highly regarded in his studies on Intermittent Fasting and Metabolic Health. His interview on the sugar/cancer link is found at: https://youtu.be/UgUdBEXqE8E

Eat real food
Get & Stay Healthy