Solutions: General Health

List of things added to my diet and routine for specific purposes

Green lipped mussel powder –inflammation

Digestive enzymes – inflammation
PQQ – energy
CoQ10 – energy

Brahmi – brain

Gotu kola – brain
Gurana – Energy
810nm infrared light intranasal – brain and well being
Blue light - skin

Swedish bitters - digestive (only when having issues)
Hawthorn berry extract - heart (quickly brings you down if highly stressed, or hurting chest)
Vitamin D - well being
Olive leaf extract - well being (only when I feel I need it)
Adaptagens (such as Adaptaphase) - stress (only if I cannot sleep)
Epicor - well being (I proactively take once a day especially in Winter to avoid sickness)

Chlorella and greens – well being

Keffir – digestive
Lemons - digestive
Bee pollen – well being
Royal jelly – well being
Oat meal mix – digestive
Coconut oil – brain
Eggs – well being
Turmeric – well being
Cinnamon – blood
Nutmeg – well being
Cloves – inflammation
Witches hazel – skin (acne)
Coconut oil – skin (moisture)
Aloe Vera – skin (repair)
Soap (Dr Bronners Eucalypt) – skin and hair
Silver solution – antibiotic and dental
Xylatol - dental
Creatine - muscular
Chia seeds - well being

Eye exercise (far and near) – muscular

Calf stretches – muscular
Extreme cardio – heart
Memory exercises – brain

Routine
I find it takes many years from beginning to research to come to a fairly conclusive idea on every subject of health. Therefore I am presenting a basic diet and exercise routine based on the years of research I have performed and the results I see from certain diets and exercises.

• Breakfast - Breakfast should be considered an important meal in the day. It should contain protein to satisfy your hunger and it should contain raw food enzymes to give your digestive system a healthy start. This is my fine-tuned breakfast:

Organic eggs with sea salt, pepper and cayenne - free range means they get more nutrients, are happier, and organic means you get less hormones and antibiotics. The cayenne will help strengthen your heart against the stress of the day and can prevent heart attacks.
Vegetable smoothie with green veges, banana, apple, and optionally a carrot, avocado, or orange. I love a quote from Jack Lananne - 'if man made, don't eat it' and 'if it tastes good, spit it out'. So this is where my vegetable smoothie comes in. You get your enzymes as well as luminescence from raw foods. Unless you are eating dirt, it don't come from anywhere else. This ensures that even if the rest of my day consists of dead food, I have done something to balance it out.
Slippery elm, oat meal, chia seeds, creatine, taurine, pollen, organic biodynamic unhomogenised yoghurt - Slipper elm and oat meal provide a gentle dose of dietry fiber, while chia seeds provide amino acids, omega 3 and many essential minerals and phytochemicals. Creatine assists in supplying energy to cells such as muscle cells, and aids muscle retention. Taurine has been shown to strengthen the heart, assist in higher magnesium and potassium retention and lower sodium retention in cells. It also has a positive effect on anxiety, lowers blood sugar levels and inhibits glycation. Pollen is high in amino acids and can assist in making your skin beautiful =) Yoghurt as with all dairy should be organic and unhomogenised. A yoghurt that contains ABC cultures will also assist with increasing your healthful bacteria levels.

• Through the day - this is the most difficult to keep under control. You usually cannot prepare food easily at work and the take-away foods are unhealthy but tempting. These are snacks that can fill your day and take your mind off the deep fried canteen food.

Goji berries, raw nuts, raisins, sultanas - these can be surprisingly filling, provide omega 3s and other nutrients throughout the day. Make sure to take plenty of water with dried fruits as they will use water to rehydrate.
Bananas, apples, grapes, etc - easy fruits make a nice snack to take the edge off cravings.
Dark chocolate - a delicious snack that can be very healthy. Get as dark as possible, I love the bitterness of 85 or 90% chocolate. Try to get organic if possible but I will buy non-organic if it is cheaper.

• Lunch - I find it hard to figure out something for lunch. Sometimes I take to work what I ate the night before but it is not nice cold and I have decided I will not use the microwave (personal choice).  I generally reheat in the oven.

Salad of green lettuce, sliced tomato, grapes, cucumber, and a olive oil and apple cider vinegar dressing - this provides some raw nutrients to your meal.
Organic ham with pineapple or free range chicken breast strips in a sundried tomato sauce - I don't buy organic chicken - way too expensive! But this makes a nice tastey snack along side a garden salad.

• Dinner - the meal that should be small but is generally large!

Frozen Veges - Veges straight out of the freezer and rinsed can make a tasty snack and taste a little like chips!

Chicken Strips in Sundried Tomato sauce - Easy to make. Just slap the chicken breasts into a baking pan, cover with olive oil, slather with the sauce and chuck in the oven. Once cooked through, cut into strips and serve.

Ham and Pineapple - another easy to make one. When Pineapple is cheap, this can be tasty with a nice salad on the side or in a sandwhich with some salad, tomato, cheese and tomato sauce.

Lamb chops - Lamb chops can taste delicious without much preparation. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Put in a frying pan with butter, cook on both sides for 5 minutes each - cover with a large lid - and its all ready. Serve with mashed potato and peas. But lay off too much potato as it is like eating sugar (check out its GI compared to glucose!)

Rib Eye Fillet - When I am feeling generous, a nice rib eye fillet with a mushroom sauce is completely yummy! A bit more preparation required however.

Salmon and mustard sauce - Cook the salmon in a baking tray with olive oil. Serve with mustard.

White fish fillets - such as blue grenadier. Can be baked in olive oil and butter or steamed with garlic. Serve with a side of steamed brocolli and carrot or veges stirfried in organic soy sauce, fish sauce, and a little seseme oil.

• Sweeteners. So this all sounds kill joy if you cannot have your cake and sweets as well. So are there any healthy sweeteners around? Well as it turns out, there just might be.

Mollassas - this has a strong flavour but can be useful in some dishes. It comes with a number of nutrients such as magnesium and potassium.
Organic coconut sugar - this is awesome, has a GI of 35 which is almost half that of rice. It has a very slight caramel flavour but is very versatile in cakes and other desserts. It has protein content and contains 12 amino acids as well as other nutrients.
Xylatol - This is an alcohol sugar. It has a negligible GI and does not feed bacteria in the body or mouth. In actual fact it causes bacteria to attach onto it and renders bacteria ineffective. This is why you will find it in some toothpaste. Awesome in cakes and muffins where you do not want to impart any flavour from your sweetener.
Stevia - a difficult one to work with as it can have a somewhat bitter after taste but comes from a natural plant extract and is up to 300 times sweeter than sugar.
Honey - This one is quite high GI but at least it has nutrients to boot.

• Medications

Swedish Bitters - when you have a queasy stomach or mild digestive issues.
Olive Leaf Extract - take over time to slowly detox your body and get your immune system up.
Hawthorn Berry Extract - Take when your heart is hurting from too much stress. If you cannot sleep due to anxiety then also take some in water.
Echinacea, Epicor, Beta Glucan - Take when you have or feel a cold or flu coming on.
Vitamin D - Take during the Winter months to support your immune system and prevent colds and flus.
Adaptaphase - Take this frequently when you are feeling chronically and seriously stressed.

• Exercise

PACE - Aerobic and cardio exercise may not be very good for you. According to Dr. Sears, the PACE exercise program, based on interval training, is a better method of exercise and builds up lung capacity, increases muscle mass, and decreases fat. The basic premise is to perform an exercise in intervals such as: -
- 2 minutes warm-up / 4 minutes of exersion (creating an oxygen debt) / recovery time (slow exercise until heart rate returns to normal) / 3 minutes of exersion / recovery time / 2 minutes of exersion / recovery time / 1 minute of exersion / recovery time.
This is just a very basic example. Exercises that can be performed with this can be anything such as: -
- Bicycle riding, treadmill, stair stepping, rope skipping, sprinting, alternating lunges, squats, jump squats, crunches/situps, leg levers etc.

Also you should note your maximum heart rate and exercise somewhere around the 60%-80% maximum. For a 32 year old the maximum heart rate is 208-[32*0.7] =185.

Flex exercises for a painfree life - this involves a number of exercises that flex the entire body and can prevent pain by using all the the muscles in the body. The exercises are bow, dog, lizard, squat, splits, sky reach, jaw, neck exercise, elbows, wrists, fingers and leg stretches.

Important steps to health

1. Purify the body of heavy metals, inorganic compounds, mycotoxins and elctromagnetic radiation.

This may involve a method of chelation such as Zeolite. See http://www.zeoactiv8.com/pdfs/General-User-Information.pdf which provides information regarding a specific brand. This should be combined with a colloidal minerals supplementation as any mineral deficiencies will be increased by the taking of Zeolite. This should also be taken with a lot of water as it causes a lot of water to be passed from the body. An 80kg person should take 2.5 L of water per day.

2. Modify the diet.

Eat fresh and preferably raw fruit and vegetables. Eat organic meat with no added hormones or antibiotics.

Reduce the number of grains in your diet - especially the processed ones. This means white rice. Try replacing it with brown or even black rice. Brown rice has a more nutty chewy flavour so can take a bit of getting used to. Black rice however is almost sweet in taste but is very good for you from what I have seen.

Take walnuts for Omega 3, 6 and 9. Take brazil nuts for selenium. Take apricots and apricot pits to assist in preventing and beating cancer. Take raw green veges to purify the blood and keep the body balanced and toned.

Take a multivitamin supplement. Cheap supplements are a waste of time and are not well absorbed by the body. Better to take a more expensive one that contains quality ingredients. Forget vitamin E supplements as they are usually only alpha tocepherol. This is the least effective form of vitamin E and can reduce the more effective forms in your body including the more powerful form - tocotrienols. If you take vitamin E, make sure it is a full spectrum tocepherol / tocotrienol supplement.

Leave out processed and cooked foods as much as possible. Most people will say no to this one. I say "as much as possible" means as far as you as an individual or family are willing to go.

3. Increase the alkalinity of your blood.

Take chloraphyl and spirulina and dark green leafy's.

4. Use anti-fungal treatment.

It is possible that cancer starts from a fungal or virus infection. A book that details this link is "Outsmarting your cancer".

5. Increase your calcium intake.

6 Oxygenate the blood and increase the EFA’s (Omega 6 and Omega 3).

When less than optimum levels of oxygen is available to cells, cancer can begin to grow. Cancer is anaerobic in nature and instead lives by fermenting sugar. Therefore lower your risk of cancer by increasing oxygen (by taking such as Co-Enzyme Q10 for example - try to find the ubiquinol form which is more available to the body for older people than ubiquinone) and decrease the number of processed sugars in the diet.

7. Reduce sugar intake.

Once again, cancer as well as bacteria and fungus (candida for example) thrive on sugar in the body. Excess sugar also brings on insulin resistance (which can go on to diabetes) and also advanced glycation end products (AGE). AGEs literally make you age.

Sugars should be replaced at least by lower glycemic sweeteners (not artificial ones such as saccharin or aspartame) for example Stevia (plant based sweetener 300 times sweeter than sugar) , Xylatol (an alcohol sugar), organic coconut sugar (non-organic add in preservatives in processing, GI of 35) or even organic unsulphured blackstrap molassas (contains many beneficial minerals including calcium and potassium). Fruits such as bananas can also be used in cakes instead of using processed nutrient devoid sugars.

8 Take mineral supplements and herbal tonics to replace deficiencies.

Zinc is a common deficiency that can cause immune depression. Lack of magnesium can cause heart issues. Lack of potassium can cause a range of issues - a deficiency of potassium can be caused if you supplement with magnesium without potassium. Calcium deficiency due to poor absorbsion - ensure you take calcium with magnesium, vitamin D, and vitamin K (vitamin K is found in butter).

Vitamin D deficiency is extremely common and can cause immune depression and low levels are linked to depression, sickness, and even cancer. Vitamin D is best acquired from the sun. Some who do testing say this doesnt work for everyone. My theory is that they may be going about it all wrong. If you have sun exposure, I have read on some sites that showering within 48 hours can prevent the complete synthesis of vitamin D. So the rule would be:
- To get at least 20 minutes of sunshine a day - not through glass as UVB rays are blocked by the glass and you will only be getting the more dangerous UVA rays.
- To only wash the essential parts of the body and try not to wash the parts exposed to the sun too regularly.
- Do not use most commercial sunscreens - these can contain chemicals linked to cancer. According to EWG when I last checked, the best sunscreen for both effectiveness and safety is Soleo Organics brand. It also does not contain nano-particles which is a good thing.

9. Don’t use plastics, cut use of chemicals and immediately reduce the intake of processed foods and any other contaminants.

This one is difficult to do, however try to replace containers in the pantry with glass. Use pyrex or glass to bring lunches to work or places. Use glass to store water.

10 Exercise to tone muscles and build stamina.

Dr Sears has a program called PACE that only takes 20 minutes a day but is much safer than long bouts of exercise. Unlike long exercise which diminishes lung capacity, it uses interval training to actually build up lung capacity.

How do I feed my children before the age of 3?
Before the age of 3, I feed my children unprocessed and raw fruits, raw vegetables, raw nuts and seeds, freshly made vegetable and fruit juices, water and a little organic unhomogenized jersey milk.

I will not give them ANY soft drinks, bottled fruit juices, cakes, sweets, lollies, biscuit, white rice, white pasta, white flour products, white sugar products, etc.

Why do I do this?
I often get flak and sarcasm from people for feeding my child a heathly diet. A common argument is that I am depriving my child of the finer things in life. I am trying to do the right thing by my child - you would think that feeding a healthy diet would be above reproach. Who would have thought we would ever live in a world where people criticise you for removing unhealthy food from a childs diet. Especially in an age where childhood illnesses, obesity, diabetes, and cancer are on the rise.

My answer to this is as follows: -

1. I love my children and will do anything in my ability to ensure they are healthy and disease free and not do anything that may be debilitating to them later on in life.
2. I understand first hand the effects of eating a high junk food diet and ended up very ill from my processed food eating days.
3. I see first hand the effects of feeding my child healthy food. He does not fall sick very often and when he does, it is rarely anything more than a mild cough.
3. This is my child and just as others have a right to feed cakes, sweets, biscuits, soft drinks and whatever else to their children, I also have a right to feed my child as I wish. Despite some of the feedback I have received, I am not depriving my child of a bright future.
4. A child cannot fully understand the ramifications of decisions they make at this age. They are still thinking of the here and now. It is my duty as a parent to make those decisions based on what I know and to try and educate my child as he gets older. Eventually he will learn to make his own decisions about what he does or does not do.
5. Feeding sugary, processed and preservative laden foods and drinks to your child does not make them happier. My child was extremely happy eating his fruits, and would go crazy for a bowl of frozen veges from the freezer. There are plenty of studies and anecdotal evidence that show the adverse effects of eating and drinking sugary and preservative laden foods and drinks. Some of these are diabetes, lower IQ, cancer, obesity, the chance of catching that common cold or flu, or autism. And before you go all crazy on me saying this, diet may not be the ultimate cause for all cases of autism however it is certainly a factor for many cases out there. See http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/factsheets/Factautism.htm, http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/index.htm#buttons and also about the Failsafe diet - http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/failsafe.htm.
6. A diet high in processed foods at the age of 3 has been shown in a recent study to interfere with a childs brain development and decreases their IQ and cognitive ability by age 8. The study was published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Do we really need a study to tell us this? We shouldn't.
7. Despite what you see on TV, you have to understand that the media and government are not always right on health issues. They are not doctors and there are vested interests. In terms of media, pharmaceutical companies make up a large part of advertising income for media companies. In terms of government, high ranking people in drugs companies in the USA move on to work for the FDA and vice versa. This creates a conflict of interest in my opinion.
Secondly you cannot always trust every published study that is put out there. Most studies on drugs are funded by drug companies who have a vested interest in the result. These companies will cause the result of each study to be manipulated in favour of their drug. Why would you fund a study that went against your own product? You wouldn't.
Drug companies have been known to pay ghostwriters to write "scientific papers" and then pay a well known doctor to put his name to it. These papers are then published in medical journals. An example is written about in the New York Times which can still be viewed at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/health/research/05ghost.html.
This all should show you that many corrupted drug companies face a commercial reality which unfortunately involves placing profit above human life.
Please understand that marketing on TV is there to change your perceptions, not to provide you with the truth (ask anyone in the field of marketing). Anecdotally I see this happen all the time. I have stated certain things to people who find what I say to be not believable. However as soon as it is stated in a newspaper or on TV all caution is thrown to the wind and suddenly people are ready to believe! People will believe a stranger they have never seen yet they will not believe someone they know. That shows me the power that media has over us. We need to open our eyes to this and understand that the media is not there to educate us. It is there to sell us a product or an idea.
If you want to know more about these issues, you would do well to do your own research and formulate your own opinion on these subjects.

The Future
There is a book I might buy one day called "Power Aging" written by Doctor Gary Null.

There is a set of DVDs that is supposed to help with back and neck pain. It is called NST (Neurostructural Integration Technique) by Michael Nixon-Livy. It is sold on Mercola.com.