BENEFITS OF BEETS

I enjoyed a fresh beet root today and boy could I feel the burning of detoxification.  I combined the beet with half a sliced Granny Smith apple and the taste and nutrient combination were fantastic.  This article from BodyMindDetox  corroborates the detoxifying benefits of my experience, except that it recommends adding a lot more healthy ingredients.  It recommends mixing "cucumber, celery, lemon, apple or ginger" to get added and necessary zinc:

Fresh Beetroot is a powerful food for cleansing and supporting liver function.  Try starting the day with at least 8 ounces of Beet juice mixed with cucumber, celery, lemon, apple or ginger for an extra helping of zinc.  

The liver's ability to function efficiently is crucial as it is accountable for filtering at least 3 pints of blood every minute of the day and is responsible for the largest percentage of detoxification, when the organ gets bogged down, sluggish or clogged the entire body becomes more contaminated and toxic.

Need more proof on the benefits of beets?  You shouldn't miss this. 

WHAT TO EAT IF YOU HAVE CANCER
A friend asked me the other day what she should take if she had cancer.  And I told her that I would start eating raw fresh fruits and vegetables.  Raw broccoli.  Raw collard greens.  Raw kale.  I would combine these foods with others to make them taste good, like wrapping a collard green leaf around a carrot and eat the two.  The carrot gives the snack or the food some sweetness to make the collard bearable if she does not like the taste of raw vegetables.

Fasting is another good approach.  Intermittent fasting works to build energy and reduces your profile to oxidation from eating 3 or 2 meals a day.

Garlic is a must.  A daily must.  Particularly if you're suffering from hypertension brought on by stress.  Garlic will reduce your blood pressure, and your hypertension will be relieved.  Wished I'd known about its ability to do this decades ago.  Just read an article by Dr. Mercola that states garlic ". . . boosts your body’s natural abilities to protect you from hypertension and osteoporosis, and research is mounting that it decreases your risk for various forms of cancer. It is a potent antimicrobial as well, working as a natural antibiotic, anti-fungal, antiviral, and anti-parasitic agent. Garlic must be fresh to give you optimal health benefits, though. The fresh clove must be crushed or chopped in order to stimulate the release of an enzyme called alliinase, which in turn catalyzes the formation of allicin."  He adds that "The active ingredient, allicin, is destroyed within one hour of smashing the garlic, so garlic pills are virtually worthless."  Plus, raw, fresh garlic is cheaper than garlic pills.  If you're worried about the smell, then just add the garlic to other foods, maybe drop a few crushed cloves into a green juice with apples.

For heart energy, I follow the recommendations laid out by Dr. Donald W. Miller to take coconut oil each day for heart energy.  I take 2 tablespoons each morning, and my heart does get pumped.  It's a good fat.  It's good energy, and it has a host of other benefits besides heart benefits.

1.  Helps reduce seizures.

2.  Reduces hunger.

3.  Lauric acid and monolaurin can kill harmful pathogens like bacteria, viruses and fungi.

4.  Help you burn fat.

5.  Great for brain function.

6.  Great for the heart.  Lowers your risk for heart disease.  And other benefits. 

For bowel health, perhaps the most important health in your system because of its size and extensive functions, I eat plain, whole milk yogurt.  I do not know how anyone can eat non-fat dairy or drink non-fat milk.  The milk is tasteless.  Kefir that is often made from non-fat milk and then sweetened tastes good because of the sweeteners, which is often done with juice.  Otherwise, I would avoid non-fat milk.  It tastes bad.  Plus, I'd read once that non-fat milk products are the refuse of milk processing.  My favorite yogurt is Nancy's Organic Whole Milk Yogurt.  I eat it with a diced Granny Smith Apple sprinkled generously with tumeric powder.

There are other foods that would help with cancer.

Thyroid Health & Treatment: Dr. Mercola Interviews Jonathan Wright

 
Learn more at Mercola's site here. 

MY NOTES ON THIS INTERVIEW
One of the sites recommended in the interview was Optimox. 
Treat the patient and not the labs.
Here is Dr. Dennis St. John O'Reilly's on "Hypothyroidism and TSH."
David Lamson.

THYROID HORMONES
T1 or
T2 or
T3 or Triiodothryronine
Reverse T3
T4 or Thyroxine
TRH or Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone produced by the hypothalamus.  The TRH goes to the pituitary gland, which makes hormones that go to the thyroid to make metabolic hormones.
TSH or Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone comes from pituitary gland.  Turns out that heavy metals destroy the thyroid.  Reverse T3 is stimulated by toxic metals.  High levels of Reverse T3 may be normal but one can still be hypothyroid.  

Lack of sweating is a clinical sign of hypothyroid.  Constipation is another symptom of hypothyroid.  Also, high cholesterol causes hypothyroid.  Overweight also is a sign of hypothyroid.  If someone is not responding to a good healthy diet, then they've probably
got a hypothyroid.

Free T3 test. 

We produce Reverse T3 to keep us from starving.  We burn energy but no food available in our bodies.  Our bodies start making more Reverse T3.  

Dr. Wright suggests using whole thyroid that uses beef, pork, and sheep mainly from New Zealand because of all of the hormonal contaminates in the US meat supply.  And he recommends these as opposed to the T4 Thyroid Iodine.  

He mentions Leslie De Groot's textbook of endocrinology that identifies 12 iodine-containing compounds.  He explains that T1, T2, T3, T4, and so on are thyroids with equal number of iodines.  There is Reverse T3 , Regular T3, T2, and so forth.  T2, by the way, improves metabolic syndrome immediately.  The interview sounded more that he was talking to physicians within in the thyroid community or doctors and not necessarily to the lay person.  Still, it was interesting.  He recommends using whole thyroid, which uses the full spectrum of thyroid hormones T1, T2, T3, Reverse T3, T4, and so forth, instead of T3, T4, T2, or others in isolation.  Unless, he says, you've got an auto-immune disease, like Hashimoto's Disease.  He explains that Type 1 Diabetes is an auto-immune disease.  When referring to the Whole Thyroid, he did say to start with T3 and T4, adding that T3 is the most active thyroid hormone.  He stated taht T4 is mainly a signalling molecule for T3 but only if we have enough selenium in our bodies.  Don't use synthetic thryoids, like Synthyroid.  T2 works against metabolic syndrome.  And the last comment had to do with Junk DNA.  I have no idea what that is.  

WHAT DOES THE THYROID REGULATE?

TREATMENTS
1.  SYNTHETICS, i.e., drugs:
     a.  Synthroid.  Abbott Laboratories manufactures Synthroid. 
     b.  Mercola warns against synthetics. 
     c.  Dr. Weil advises the use of synthetics, like Thyrolar made by Forest Pharmaceuticals.
2.  SUPPLEMENTS
     a.  Avoid chlorine and fluoride.
     b.  2 to 3 grams of Iodine a day.
     c.  Whole Thyroid.
     d.  Targeting Isolated Thyroid Hormones with Replacement Therapy.
     e.  Herbs That Support Thyroid
     f.  Dr. Brownstein recommends Dr. Lugol's Iodine Solution, at around 12 to 13mgs a day, pointing to the Japanese daily consumption. 
 
The only product I've seen where you get that amount of iodine is in the product Iodoral.  And this place seems to have the best price on it.  It is not cheap.  Check out what it is selling for on Amazon.

3.  FOODS THAT IMPROVE THYROID & METABOLISM
     a.  Coconut Oil.
     b.  Iodine or Seaweed
     c.  Iodized salt.
     d.  Fresh ocean fish.

Dr. Weil explains things about healthy foods that may not be so good for your thyroid, "Some foods, especially cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and cauliflower) contain natural goitrogens, compounds that can cause the thyroid gland to enlarge by interfering with thyroid hormone synthesis. Cooking has been reported to inactivate this effect in Brussels sprouts. Cassava, a starchy root that is the source of tapioca, can also have this effect. Other goitrogens include corn, sweet potatoes, lima beans, and soy. Some practitioners recommend that people with under-active thyroid glands avoid these foods, even though most have not been proved to cause hypothyroidism in humans."

INTERMITTENT FASTING

Eat, Fast & Live Longer HD by limoslight

Another plug for calorie restriction diets--intermittent fasting.

H/T Dr. Joseph Mercola

How Intermittent Fasting Can Help You Live Healthier, Longer

Eat less.  Eat less frequently.

This article claims that fasting wakes up your survival genes.

"SAUERKRAUT CONTAINS 20 TIMES MORE BIO-AVAILABLE VITAMIN C THAN FRESH CABBAGE."

This is interesting.  Searching for the health benefits on beans, I found this comment about cabbage by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride:

"Fermented foods are essential to introduce, as they provide probiotic microbes in the best possible form … fermented foods will carry probiotic microbes all away down to the end of the digestive system. Fermentation predigests the food, making it easy for our digestive systems to handle, that is why fermented foods are easily digested by people with damaged gut. Fermentation releases nutrients from the food, making them more bio-available for the body: for example sauerkraut contains 20 times more bio-available vitamin C than fresh cabbage."