BifidoBacteria - Good Gut Bacteria = Healthy Immune system

Bifido Bacteria - SAY WHAT???

That is the "good" gut  bacteria.  Bifido Bacteria.  Do you want them in your GUT / intestinal track?  ABSOLUTELY. 

Here is an analogy:  Do you love a barefoot lawn?  I do...  I love to lay on it, walk barefoot on it, play bocce ball on it, lay on my back on it and look at the stars at night, catch some Vitamin D while laying on it...  And I like to look at it and enjoy the beauty of it. 

I describe a barefoot lawn as all one type of grass, no weeds, no annual blue grass, cut and manicured and watered.  It is so soft and fun and beautiful and most of all cared for.

A lawn that is not cared for, becomes dry, and weed filled and is no longer beautiful.

Consider that lawn as your gut, your intestinal track.  When you don't care for it, don't water it, don't tend it, it will become sick and full of bad stuff.  This is where Bifido Bacteria come in...

Bifido Bacteria - when in your gut, will cover the walls of your intestines, not allowing the bad bacteria, ie the weeds, to fill those spots.  Which in turn, will fend off illness and disease.

Here are 7 reasons that Bifidobacteria are vital to your health

1 - Their by product stop the grown of harmful, toxic bacteria in your intestinal track.
2 - They take up the space, or fill the space, like I mentioned in the analogy, that a pathogentic organism could fill.  Bifido Bacteria crowd out these organisms.

3 - They lower blood ammonia levels by slowing the production of those toxins.

4 - They produce Folic Acid and Vitamin B.

5 - They produce digestive enzymes.

6 - This is one I LOVE - They promote immune attack against cancer cells, and stimulate the immune system.

7 - They increase essential minerals magnesium and calcium absorption.  Which help reduce the possibility of high blood pressure and diabetes.  As we age these tend to decline in our body, so helping them increase just by the increase of Bifidobacteria in your gut is a very positive move to your WalkToHealth.me journey. 

Increased refine sugars kill bifidobacteria in the gut and feed the parasitical yeast, fungi, and bacteria that contribute to disease. 

The question to ask yourself.  Is your lawn (gut) a beautiful, healthy one, working to make you healthy inside and out?  Or is your lawn (gut) a brown, ugly, toxin-producing one, with no way to fight off illness and disease? 

Step one in your journey to increasing the health in your gut...  Add Kombucha to your diet.  Watch my 2 part video on how to make your own Kombucha.  It is a great source for a probiotic. 


If you would like to turn your gut into a healthy immune fighting beast, set up your Health History evaluation by clicking here and learn other techniques to improve your gut health.  

Food - Whole Food - Its Protective Power - Part 6

Antioxidants by Color - White  - we often forget about these

A Phytonutrient Rainbow

White

Anthocyanins - Allyl Sulfides

Benefits - These boost your immunity, and have anti-inflamitory properties.  And again... anti-cancer.  They help to reduce cholesterol and blood pressure and reduce the risk of some cancers and heart disease. 

Where can you get this:
Onions, garlic, scallions, chives, banana's cauliflower, mushrooms, parsnips, ginger... again...  Just think color!

Try adding one of these a day to your intake... Fresh...  whole...  not from a box of any kind. 

That is the completion of this series.  Hope you enjoyed it!

If you want to continue learning how to regain your health fill out your Health History and let's get started!  I focus on groups of 10-20 people.  Don't wait... submit it today!

Food - Whole Food - Its Protective Power - Part 5

Antioxidants by Color - Blue / Purple

A Phytonutrient Rainbow

Blue / Purple

Anthocyanins - Reservratrol

Benefits - These fight free radicals, very important in our day and age.  Supports healthy aging, helps to balance hormone levels and has anti cancer properties... are you seeing a pattern?  REAL food has ANTI - CANCER properties... Hummm

Also think about hormonal levels...  NOT just women.  Men, and children are effected too.  

Where can you get this:
Blueberries (LOVE LOVE LOVE my blueberries), blackberries, eggplant, grapes, grapejuice (here I will say, homemade grapejuice) raisins and red wine... again...  Just think color!

Try adding one of these a day to your intake... Fresh...  whole...  not from a box of any kind. 

... part 6 - White

If you want to continue learning how to regain your health fill out your Health History and let's get started!  I focus on groups of 10-20 people.  Don't wait... submit it today!

Food - Whole Food - Its Protective Power - Part 4

Antioxidants by Color - Red

A Phytonutrient Rainbow

Red

Lycopene - Anthocyanins

Benefits - These are good for us in that they protect against cancer (especially prostate) and vision loss, and heart disease.  In addition they can help reduce neuro-degenerative diseases. 


Where can you get this:
Tomatoes, watermelon, goji berries, papaya, cranberries, strawberries, raspberries, cherries, red cabbage... again...  Just think color!

Try adding one of these a day to your intake... Fresh...  whole...  not from a box of any kind. 

... part 5 - Blue/Purple

If you want to continue learning how to regain your health fill out your Health History and let's get started!  I focus on groups of 10-20 people.  Don't wait... submit it today!

Food - What is Food - Real Food? Kale Salad

Food - Do we really know what REAL food is anymore?

Real - Whole - Food...

Think about it...  Have you had any Real - Whole - Food today?  By that I mean, have you had fresh produce, cut it up, and prepared it how you wanted it, not from a package, or can.

Now you could have gotten it from the freezer, but even then you have to watch the ingredients.  Read the label and find out, has whoever processed that food, in that package, put preservatives on that food?  If they have, then you can't really count it as whole food.  Whole food doesn't have added preservatives.

I find it interesting that there are VERY limited restaurants that have Real - Whole - Foods on their menus.  They try, but what they have isn't really nutrient dense. 

Now don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good restaurants, with good food, and more now with the food network shows promoting good preparation of whole foods, great tasting, chef made, with fresh ingredient, dishes.

But the question is, are there foods that don't have the preservatives, and additives, or even are they non- GMO?

This week I challenge you to add to your daily intake, one fresh piece of green produce.  At best, try preparing it raw, uncooked.  If you can't do that, then just slightly blanch or steam letting it be bright green.  

Here is one idea for a green to add.

Kale Salad

One bunch of Kale - Chop Kale into small pieces
Lemon juice - squeeze the juice of a whole fresh lemon
Lime Juice - squeeze the juice of a whole lime
sunflower seeds - 1/4 cup of sprouted raw seeds
red onion - chop desired amount of red onion (to your liking)
grated Ginger  - small amount of grated ginger

mix with hands - massage it kind of squeezing the kale (this breaks down the kale a bit and makes the flavors of it soften.

Add whatever else you would like - here are a few ideas
 mushrooms
gogi berries
hemp hearts
nutritional yeast
olive oil
avacado
sea salt


Then toss if you add these items or more.  Plate and enjoy!!

Fill out the form and then schedule your Holistic Health history with Lynn today!  The appointment can be done via the internet, google chat, skype, or at her practice location if you live in the Portland, Oregon area.  These appointments are held in the evenings and weekends, Pacific Time. 

Food - Whole Food - Its Protective Power - Part 3

Antioxidants by Color -Orange / Yellow

A Phytonutrient Rainbow

Orange / Yellow

Carotenes - Xanthophylls

Benefits - Vitamin A has anticancer and heart protective properties and it protects the mucous membranes.  Vitamin A also protects the eyes and brain and strengthens the immune system.


Where can you get this:
Peppers, squashes, carrots, apricots, sweet potatoes, mangoes, oranges, grapefruit.  Red Fish (salmon) eggs, and again you can probably think of more.  Just think color!
Try adding one of these a day to your intake... Fresh...  whole...  not from a box of any kind. 

... part 4 - Red

If you want to continue learning how to regain your health fill out your Health History and let's get started!  I focus on groups of 10-20 people.  Don't wait... submit it today!

Food - Whole Food - Its Protective Power - Part 2

Antioxidants by Color - Green

A Phytonutrient Rainbow

Green:
Lutein - Chlorophyll - Indoles

Benefits - boosts immunity, protects your eyes, supports the circulatory system of the blood, and gives you glowing healthy skin and tissue.

Detoxifies and rebuilds blood and collagen.

Anti-cancer properties and helps support a health hormone balance.  (wonder why we have hormone issues... think about the foods we are faced with... why are children faced with depression, add, adhd?  It is a lack of hormone balance in the body because of the lack of the right foods)

Where can you get this:
Kale!!! Wonderful food, collard greens, cucumber, zucchini, peas, avocado, asparagus, green beans, leafy greens, sprouted grasses, spirulina, artichokes.  And I am sure you can think of more greens.

Try adding one of these a day to your intake... Fresh...  whole...  not from a box of any kind. 

... part 3 - Orange/Yellow

If you want to continue learning how to regain your health fill out your Health History and let's get started!  I focus on groups of 10-20 people.  Don't wait... submit it today!

Food - Whole Food - Its Protective Power - Part 1

We have become so far removed from what real food is, by way of advertisements.  Have you ever paid attention to what those ads do to your desire by listening and watching them?  Those advertisers know that.  That is why they do it.

Try paying attention to when you see an ad and what you might eat over the following 24 hours, or desire to eat.

Is it 'real food' or is it the food like substance you just saw in the ad.  If what you eat comes in a box, it is not real food.  It is not, most likely going to be healthy for you.  Are there more than 3 ingredients?  Put it back and go to the outer skirts of the grocery store.

In this series of blogs I am going to be going through the Rainbow of phytonutrients.  Writing about the Antioxidants by the color of the food.  If we learn to look at our food, real food, by color and what it can help in our bodies we can slowly regain the health in our country.

It really is not more expensive to eat healthy.  How expensive is it to miss work, pay a co-pay at a Dr office, or even for your pharmaceuticals?  When you heal your body through the foods you eat, and give your body the nutrients it needs, you will eat the right amounts.  When you eat the 'food like substances' that are void of nutrients, your body is craving more, so you eat more, but still... it lacks nutrients, so the body starts demanding more.  Hence the situation of the undernourished over fed society we live in.

But how do we do this, how do we know what to eat and be healthy?  We have been told so many untruths about food that it is hard to decypher what to eat.

In my group sessions I guide people to learn how to do that.  To know.  To understand.  To gain health. 

...  part 2 - phytonutrient Green