HEADQUARTERS FOR HEALTH

The stomach is the source of health—and the source of disease. The stomach is a food-processing factory. Its products are nutrients and waste. Its workers are bacteria, willing and able to break down the food into the two, efficiently and quickly. YOU are the CEO of the factory. It’s your duty, and in your interest to manage it wisely. All the healthy stomach needs is:



Probiotics (fermented food or cultured beverage)

whole grains (brown rice, quinoa)

healthy fats and anti-oxidants (avocado, hemp, coconut oil)

Calcium, magnesium and the B-vitamins as supplements.

Enzymes created in a healthy pancreas and liver and protected by a healthy immune system



What it doesn’t need is:

antibiotics or drug-resistant bacteria

sugar

dairy or meat fats

simple carbohydrates

harmful (predatory) fungai or yeasts

a weakened immune system



There are two kinds of stomach destruction, via blood sugar, Hypo and Hyperglycemic. Hyper are the people who crave liquids and sugar, are overweight on the top of their bodies, and who are easily diagnosed as pre-diabetic. The cake-eaters. Hyper suffers insulin shock and is unpredictable and dangerous to others. Treating them the traditional way, with drugs and surgery, is the path to lifelong suffering and misery. Only a nutritional correction of the internal sugar-insulin mechanism can save them from obesity.



The Hypoglycemic is harder to detect, except by their drug habits. They crave food, and use any and all addictions; drugs or snacks or whatever they can find, to delay and to deny hunger. They gain weight in the lower part of their bodies. They can be meat-eaters or vegans. They are the non-conformists, the rebels, the depressed and creative, self-destructive elements in society, who often suffer schizophrenia and who are hard to diagnose, until they suffer a massive collapse of the immune system.



Without intervention, every american, or anyone who is trying to survive on the typical american diet, will suffer one or the other, or BOTH before they are overcome by what is essentially a death by rancid fats in the cells, and a dying digestive system. The net effect is that we are ALL “sanpaku", George Oshawa’s word for “victims”, and all need help.



We can count calories; eat any diet—raw foods, liquid foods, meat-only, macrobiotic foods, vegan foods, high fat, low fat, high carb, no carb; it makes no difference if your stomach isn’t able to process the food. In order to make your stomach the kind of neighborhood that friendly, hard working bacteria want to live in, you need to provide what they want:



1) A continuous source of fermented food and beverages, including miso, tempeh, kim-chi, cultured fish, salt and sour pickles, natto, and naturally brewed soy sauce, —artisan beer, keffir, AND—the centerpiece and queen of the fermented beverages —Kombucha. Kombucha can reorganize the stomach to start working optimally, instantly. Without the probiotics (friendly flora) to digest our foods, we would all die of diarrhea. There should be 10 times as many bacteria in the gut as cells in the human body. Kombucha provides this, and you can easily brew it yourself at home.



2) Enough whole grains to form a Ph neutral-acid media for bacteria to grow, and to provide B-vitamins. In the macrobiotic world, whole grains should constitute 60% of the plate—at least during the detox or healing process. George Oshawa chewed uncooked brown rice to cleanse his stomach.



3) Leafy greens and vegetables to provide roughage, and anti-oxidants and minerals. The Greens I am talking about are NOT spinach or lettuce, the former high in dangerous purines, and the latter, 99% water. Collard greens, Kale, mustard greens and broccoli are the highest in Vitamin A&D—essential to the immune system. Wheat grass is the one of the highest sources of A&D. (More about food, below).



4) Enough protein to repair tissue damage and provide heat. However, the high fat content of dairy and meat protein makes them repellant to the stomach, a nightmare to digest. Soy is also impossible to digest, because of oxalic acids, and cannot be consumed as Tofu or soymilk unless certain bacteria has been added to make it digestible. This is the greatest challenge to the vegetarian. Plant proteins are short of some necessary B vitamins, and only the addition of a special fermented culture can release them from the plant in order to be assimilated into the bloodstream. Vegetarianism is not for sissies.



5) No additional sugar or any kind—even fruits or lactose-yogurts. When you do allow sugar into the stomach, it should be accompanied by seaweed, or food rich in calcium-magnesium, which will transform the sugar-acids into harmless salts.



But how does one do this in the modern life? You can’t really wait for a gradual cure, a slow ascent up the ladder of health, a recuperation. You need a leg-up, a jolt, a shot in the arm, a ringer. This is why I recommend a therapeutic use of vitamins—megadosing—to make the instant corrections, and then, to use the tried-and-true methods of slow, nutritional balance to make the final cure. One thing that is guaranteed is a CURE not a treatment.



Here’s the rundown on the vitamins:

Vitamin E: This is your healing, blood cleansing vitamin. It is derived from wheat germ oil. There is no “overdose” possible. Vitamin E is 100% beneficial to the system, unless you are taking blood thinning medication, but that’s the fault of the drug, not the E. The brand you use is extremely important, since 90% of vitamin E is synthetic. Only acetic-acid-free E works. I only use “Healthy Origins” brand. Within hours this miracle antioxidant will make your kidneys breathe a sigh of relief. When the blood is clean—the heart is happy. Vitamin E is also great to place directly on the skin. After your shower, break open a capsule and apply the E to your face, or any area of the body you want to heal, or moisturize, including the scalp. E liquid WILL stain clothes, but absorption is quick, and your skin will immediately feel and look better, within hours!



Vitamin A and D: This is the infection killer. A&D is nature’s antibiotic (maybe antibiotics are synthetic A&D?) A&D extracts the potent retinol from lipid fish oils. This will help quickly build new antibodies in the body, and restore protective cell membranes. A&D accelerates the slow process of building up your own immune system to fight bacteria and viruses. I recommend taking 4-10 capsules of A&D (derived from cod liver or fish oils) a day if you are suffering from infections or flu. Normally, 25,000 IUs of vit. A combined with 1,000 IUs of vit. D will be a good maintenance dose. Vitamin A can be toxic but not if you take vitamin D with it, which helps it absorb quickly. The body can easily assimilate up to A&D 1 million IUs of A per day, with plenty of D, in emergencies, to help break a fever, or end sinus congestion. Medical science has sent out a lot of scare mongering misinformation about vitamin A, but it does a much better job than antibiotics, without any of the drawbacks. Any side-effects are very minor compared to the problems with antibiotics! A&D can be seen working as it clears up skin infections, eye, ear, nose and sinus infections quite expeditiously. If big Pharma could monetize fish as much as they have medicine, we’d have ten different brands of A&D. It’s your secret weapon against disease!



B-complex: These are your energy pills, take 1 or 2 a day in the morning to give you energy all day long. When do you want the energy blast? Plan ahead. The B-vitamins take 3-6 hours to kick in. If you take them late in the day you will be kept awake that night, but taken at bedtime (like vitamin E) you will wake up clear-headed and ready to go, in 6 hours or so. There is a slight side effect: you may feel a tingling, like a sun-burn for a few minutes, maybe within an hour of taking them. This is the Niacin, a B vitamin which is opening up and stimulating your capillaries, which is a good way to bring fresh blood to the skin. You may also notice your urine is more orange, also a normal effect of bladder-cleansing vitamin B3. The B-complex has ALL the B vitamins you need for so many chemical processes I can’t list them all. One of the MOST important is B6 which prevents water retention—a vector of disease in both men and women. This gall-water is a mess of infection and dead cells. Many women are carrying around at least 2 lbs of rancid water in their body cavities at times. It’s important to get rid of it as soon as possible! This is the best, natural way to get rid of it without harmful diuretics. B-vitamins are a girl’s best friend when it comes to water retention!!!



The King of vitamins is Vitamin C—ascorbic. It should be taken as ascorbic powder. Powders come in 3 combinations, ascorbic acid, Calcium-ascorbic and sodium ascorbic. The Calcium-ascorbic is superior because it buffers the bowel effect and provides calcium.

I recommend 3,000 mgs (a level tablespoon of powder) daily. You will feel like a new person after one shot of C treatment—it cleans you out, literally, for a fresh start! You’ll also see your hair grow and your nails become hard. Vitamin C is THE anti-oxidant, very important for the health of the skin, bones, teeth, and vitality. Without it you’d die of scurvy. It also helps evacuate all the crap hidden in the gut, intestines, bladder and spleen. It cleans out all the leftover indigestible junk that the body normally can’t get rid of. Be prepared for some pretty nasty smelling stuff to come out of your butt. Once the initial cleaning occurs, though, vitamin C then is another way of maintaining optimum health on a day-to-day basis.



Calcium Magnesium is the most critical of minerals, without them we would all fester in undigested fats and kill each other in mindless anger. I buy “Dolomite” a cheap, natural Cal-mag powder —a heaping tablespoon a day-1000 mgs of Calcium and 600 mgs of Magnesium. You can get Cal-Mag capsules from 500 mgs to 1,000 mgs with the Magnesium included. It’s very important that these two minerals be taken together, at least 2-1. These minerals are the way the body neutralizes harmful acids, and almost immediately you will notice a benefit to the mental state of mind. Called “nature’s tranquilizer”, Cal-Mag actually brings you enough peace of mind to be able to study your life and problems dispassionately, and without hysteria or anger. It also makes the body balance out to the correct PH.



Here’s a list of the vitamins I mentioned:



HEALTHY ORIGINS, 100% natural Vitamin E

1,000 IU capsules

CARLSON Vitamin A & D combination,

25,000-1000 IU capsules

NutraBiotic Calcium Ascorbate (Vitamin C) buffered with calcium

JARROW Formula B-complex (capsules)

All items are available at: http://www.iherb.com.



Foods:

Natural Foods can be very easy to add to menu plans. You essentially have to arrange it so that you eat 60% of the volume of daily intake as whole grains. Whole grains are the untouched, unrefined, uncooked or processed grain. This includes brown rice, millet, quinoa, barely, buckwheat, oats, amaranth, etc.. Avoid the refined versions of any of these grains. Use “short grain” brown rice, which is richer in the B vitamins. They call brown rice the Chinese B vitamin pill, because it is such a rich source of those vitamins and complex carbohydrates. There is NO BETTER FOOD in the world for you than brown rice. You have to maintain a diet high in whole grains, don’t try to fob it off by eating so-called whole grain breads, or crackers. All the stuff they try to call whole grain is not whole, unless you see it like nature made it. You cook whole grains by boiling them, 2 parts water to one part grain. Usually it can take 20 to 45 minutes of slow boiling to cook grains. Quinoa is faster, brown rice is slower.



The second great widely available natural foods are leafy greens: kale, broccoli, collard and mustard greens. Forget spinach, forget lettuce, ONLY the dense leafy greens have the vitamins and minerals you need, as well as the scouring abilities to clean out your system. These greens take longer to cook and have a stronger taste so you’ll have to find the best way to season them. I chop up my collards into small pieces and sautee them on a med high flame with garlic and olive oil for about 10 minutes, adding a few drops of water to keep them from wilting or burning. If you don’t want to boil your greens, Southern-style, you can lightly steam them or puree them with cream or vegetable stock for a delicious soup or sauce.



Brown rice and greens are such a magnificent foundation for your health, that you can just about eat anything else, and still maintain good health if you eat rice or other whole grain as the basics in your diet. Find a Asian restaurant that serves brown rice and you’ll have it made for when you can’t cook.



The third element, and most important is FERMENTED FOOD. This is Miso, Kombutcha, Japanese “umiboshi” or salt plums, REAL fermented pickles and, the best of all possible worlds, KIMCHI. Kimchi is a miracle food, eat as much of it as you can.



For protein, the best source is TEMPEH. If you can learn to love this Indonesian fermented soy cake, you will be really making yourself into a health machine, full blast, and impervious to disease and fatigue. Don’t bother with any other soy products, such as tofu, which is highly refined soy and almost indigestible. Tofu will RUIN a healthy diet, not add to it, It should be eaten very sparingly. Even soy milk is hard to digest, in spite of the high calcium content.



Some source material:

Jon Gabriel Jon Gabriel - The Gabriel Method

George Oshawahttp://www.zenmacrobiotics.com/zenmacrobiotics.html

Cool healing recipeshttp://www.macrobiotics.co.uk/articles/mealforlovers.htm