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Healing & Alternative Health
Love Your Gut
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Have you heard the saying, “You are what you eat”? It’s true, but really you are what you digest from what you eat. Each second your body makes millions of cells, those cells form tissue and tissues form organs. Your overall health is the cumulative health of every one of your cells. Each cell is made from what is digested form your food. Paying attention to our digestion is one of the best things we can do for our health. By the age of 63 one out of every six Americans has some sort of surgery on a part of their digestive tract. Our standard American diet and lifestyle are generally not very digestive friendly. Here are some guidelines to help you digest better!
Support your beneficial bacteria
Contained in your gastrointestinal (GI) tract are hundreds of beneficial bacteria. Yes, bugs. Good bugs. Bugs that help you to assimilate your nutrients and eliminate waste. These beneficial bacteria comprise your GI flora and are an important foundation to your overall health and wellbeing. Yes, once again we are humbled by the unseen world of bacteria. Unfortunately, there are many things that disrupt the flora and destroy the beneficial bacteria such as: sugar, coffee, caffeine, alcohol, chlorine, fluoride, over the counter and prescription medications, oral contraceptives, antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides, food preservatives and stress. Try to eliminate as many of these things as is possible.
The good news is that there are many things you can do to support and feed the beneficial bacteria in your gut. Most indigenous diets around this world have some sort of fermented food as a main component. Fermented foods are full of beneficial bacteria (acidophilus, bifidus, lactobacillus). Eating small amounts of fermented foods on a regular basis is one of the best ways to help support the integrity of your GI. Fermented foods are: parmesan cheese, kefir, kimchi, kombucha, Miso, kalamata olives, good dill pickles, sauerkraut, sourdough bread, umeboshi plums, and whole yogurt.
Fermented foods are found in the refrigerator section of the grocery store. Canned sauerkraut in the dry foods section is no longer a fermented food. Make sure your yogurt is whole and organic without sugar or high fructose corn syrup. Most Asian restaurants have a fermented condiment on the menu. You don’t have to eat a lot of kimchi or yogurt, even one tablespoon a day will be good. Think of taking your fermented foods like a condiment or medicinal supplement.
Life in general is rough on the GI flora and that is why so many diets include foods that feed the gut. When you have a serious assault on your GI flora like taking long term medications or antibiotics, then it is a good idea to take a concentrated source of beneficial bacteria in the form of probiotic supplements. Probiotic is the general name for supplement forms of acidophilus and other beneficial bacterial. Good health food stores carry probiotics. I recommend taking probiotics for as long as you take medications or to take them for six months after taking antibiotics.
Up to sixty percent of your immune cells are clustered in your GI, when the flora is destroyed by antibiotics; this compromise leaves you more susceptible to future illness.
Along with fermented foods and probiotic supplements there are several foods that actually feed the good gut bacteria. The beneficial bacteria thrive on Inulin and FOS (Fructooligosaccharides) rich foods. Inulin rich foods are: onions, flax seed, asparagus, artichoke, Jerusalem artichoke, chicory root, dandelion root and burdock root. Adding ground flax seed to your salad dressings or grating fresh burdock root into your salads is a great way to feed your gut. FOS rich foods are flax, rye, barley, onions, raw honey, garlic, leeks and chicory root.
Happy Belly Tea
Three cups room temperature water
One tablespoon dandelion root
One tablespoon chicory root
One tablespoon burdock root
One tablespoon honey
Put water and herbs into a glass quart jar. Let sit over night then strain the herbs out. Add the honey, shake well and drink throughout the day. There is no need to heat the water for this tea.
Happy Gut Jerusalem artichoke Dish
8 Jerusalem artichokes
4 tablespoons butter
2 minced cloves raw garlic
2 tablespoon powdered flax seeds
2 tablespoons minced fresh or dried garden herbs (any combination of rosemary, thyme and anise hyssop is great on Jerusalem artichokes, also called sun chokes)
Chop and steam the sun chokes. Mix the herbs, flax and garlic into the butter and pour onto the Jerusalem artichokes when they are hot out of the steamer. Yum.
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Kami McBride,
Teacher of Herbal Medicine
& Women's Health
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Kami McBride has taught herbal medicine and women’s health since 1988. She has studied medicinal plants for almost 20 years and has taught Herbology at the University of California School of Nursing and Stanford Hospital. Her popular course, Cultivating the Herbal Medicine Woman Within is an experiential earth awareness and herbal studies program that is taught at her beautiful school and herb gardens in Vacaville, California.
An intuitive and inspiring teacher, Kami has helped thousands of people learn to use healing plants in their daily lives in ways that are healthy, safe and fun. Her extensive knowledge of herbal medicine along with a focus on teaching herbology as a relationship with the Earth and a way of life, help to fulfill her mission of reviving the cultural art of home herbal care.
Kami is an herbal consultant and an expert in the field of holistic health specializing in women’s issues. Her herbal consultations empower women to discover sacredness and pleasure in their healing process. Her educational courses provide a sanctuary for women to transform their relationship with their body and reclaim their heritage as healers and herbalists.
Kami is the author of 105 Ways to Celebrate Menstruation, available at www.amazon.com.
Visit Kami’s website at:
www.livingawareness.
com
Sign up for her free quarterly herbal e-newsletter.
kami@livingawarness.
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For Classes, Books & Consultations:
Phone: 707-446-1290
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