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Raymond Francis, D.Sc., M.Sc., RNC has been called a “brilliant advanced thinker” and has been cited as “one of the few scientists who has achieved a breakthrough understanding of health and disease.”
Raymond is an internationally recognized leader in the field of optimal-health maintenance and a pioneer in transforming our failed disease-care system to a true health-care system. He is a chemist by training, a graduate of M.I.T., a bestselling author, and a world-class speaker.
He has written five breakthrough books, the international bestseller Never Be Sick Again, Never Be Fat Again, Never Fear Cancer Again, Never Feel Old Again, and The Great American Health Hoax.
Toxins and Lack of Nutrients Cause Weight Gain – Raymond Francis
We all have different heredity and constitution. If your predecessors were Vikings or Eskimos, then chances are that you will generally need to eat lots of fish, meat and fat. But if your predecessors came from a Mediterranean culture or some tropical area of the world, then you will probably need more carbohydrates in your diet. As a result, anyone of the popular diets suits some people and does not suit others.
Also, throughout our lives our bodies go through cycles of building itself up and cleansing itself. For building itself your body needs very different nutrients from those it uses for cleansing itself (animal foods are generally building, while plant foods are generally cleansing).
We all have an autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for your heart beating, for your digestive system feeding you, etc. The autonomic nervous system is made out of two branches: a sympathetic nervous system and a parasympathetic nervous system. These two systems generally work in opposition to each other providing a very complex balance in every function of the body.
Depending on an infinite number of factors (daily cycle of activity and sleep, season, weather, stress, infection, feeding / cleansing, your occupation at the time, etc.) you will shift from being ‘sympathetic dominant’ to ‘parasympathetic dominant’.
These two branches of our nervous system require very different sets of nutrients to be fed: one likes meat and fat, while the other needs more plant foods. Only your body knows what proportions of protein/fat/carbohydrate it needs at any given moment of your life.
How do we feed ourselves properly? The answer is: get back in touch with your body’s inner intelligence.
Mother Nature gave us senses of SMELL, TASTE, DESIRE for a particular food and a sense of SATISFACTION after eating it. So, when your body needs a particular mix of nutrients, it will give you a desire for a particular food, which contains just that right mix; this particular food will smell divine to you and taste wonderful, and you will feel satisfied after eating it.
So, the only way for us to serve our bodies properly with the right food is to be in touch with our senses!
The DESIRE for a particular food is the main way your body tells you what it needs at any particular moment nutritionally. So, when you get hungry, stop and think: ” What is the most appealing food for me right now?” The answer will come immediately, and just the thought of that particular food will fill your mouth with saliva. Desire is your inner body intelligence talking to you, letting you know what it needs to keep you healthy, energetic and happy. If you listen to your desire every time you eat, you will be able to digest that food well and it will do you only good, because you have eaten it at the right time, just when your body asked for it.
TROUBLE is that in our modern commercial world people’s desires for food has been manipulated through the use of addictive and taste-altering chemicals in processed foods. Listening to your desire only applies to natural foods – foods that Mother Nature has designed. Stop eating processed foods and your normal sense of desire for food will return.
The sense of SMELL gives your body a lot of information about the food: is it safe to eat, has it been contaminated by chemicals or microbes, is it fresh, and most importantly, is it appropriate for your bodily needs at the moment? So, before putting anything into your mouth smell it: if it is the right food for you at the moment, it will smell very appealing. If it is not the right food, it will smell repulsive. Respect your sense of smell and listen to it.
TROUBLE is, that many people in our modern world have a damaged sense of smell due to use of manmade chemicals, such as laundry detergents, domestic cleaning chemicals, so called air fresheners and perfumes block the limited number of smell olfactory receptors in your nose. Once the receptors are blocked by a chemical, any new molecules of that chemical coming in have nothing to attach to, so you cannot smell it anymore.
To restore your sense of smell, remove all smelly/perfumed chemicals from your environment. In a few weeks time your olfactory receptors will clean themselves up and your sense of smell will return.
The sense of TASTE is one of the channels of communication between your body’s inner intelligence and your conscious mind. This the way your body tells you it needs a particular mix of nutrients, by giving you great pleasure from consuming them in the form of food.
The TROUBLE is that many people have an altered or dulled sense of taste due to regular consumption of processed foods. Many processed foods contain taste-altering chemicals, which are deliberately added to the ‘food’. These chemicals are not only toxic, but can alter your perception of taste for a long time, so it is essential to stop consuming processed foods in order to restore your normal sense of taste.
Working with a holistic dentist is very important, as many dental materials in the mouth can make it toxic and alter your sense of taste.
The sense of SATISFACTION after eating. If you have eaten a meal appropriate for your body’s nutritional needs at the time, you will feel fully satisfied.
It is important not to overeat, so you don’t feel ‘stuffed’. However, if you listen to your sense of pleasure from food, then you will not overeat because you would stop eating as soon as the food stops being pleasurable.
Cravings for sweet foods are common due to unstable blood sugar level. It takes time to normalize blood sugar and the most effective way to deal with it is to increase your fat consumption, particularly animal fats. So, consume plenty of animal fats with your meals.
The GAPS Diet is not set in stone; you have to adapt it for your unique body, for its unique daily needs. The GAPS diet gives you the list of foods to work with. When you eat these different foods and in what proportions is up to you. Listen to your body’s needs, communicated to you through the senses of desire, smell, taste and satisfaction. Your body will let you know what proportions of protein, fat and carbohydrate to have at every meal.
Use your senses of smell, taste, desire for food and satisfaction from eating it to guide you in your decisions: when to eat, what foods to eat and in what combinations. And remember: you are unique, so what suits your neighbour may not suite you at all.
For more information on GAPS please refer to her book
Gut and Psychology Syndrome: Natural Treatment for Autism, Dyspraxia, A.D.D., Dyslexia, A.D.H.D., Depression, Schizophrenia, 2nd Edition Paperback – Nov 15 2010
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What is the relationship between your microbiome (friendly gut bacteria) and your immune system?
Seventy per cent of your immune system is this microbiome, your gut bacteria. You have trillions and trillions of microbes living in and around your body that are a constantly exchanging with you.
1. Isometric: You are holding a pose. You are contracting your muscles, but you are not lengthening or shortening the muscles.
For example you are in a push-up position and you are contracting your muscles but you are not lengthening or shortening that muscle. You are just holding that pose while your muscles are in contraction. That is called isometric.
2. Concentric: You are shortening the muscle while contracting.
For example, you are bending your elbow.
3. Eccentric: You are lengthening the muscle while contracting.
It is also called negative training. For example, you are straightening your arm. There are many different examples of eccentric: walking down a hill you are going to use a lot of eccentric type motions. Another example, you do a pull-up okay and then you let yourself down very slowly or you are in a push-up position and you are letting yourself down you are not concentrically pushing you are letting yourself down slowly so it is kind of a reversal of a certain motion. Another example would be you have these bands at the gym this band is connected with your arm and you are contracting away from your body. That would be concentric. Eccentric is letting it down closer to your body.
Eccentric motions can have a lot of benefits. There are actually more benefits of eccentric motions than concentric type motions.
Benefits of eccentric motions:
1. It may produce bigger, faster, and stronger muscles.
For example, gym and you are doing bench press. Push the weight up to as far as you can and then you bring it down really slowly. You are actually getting more benefit on this reverse motion. You are actually stronger you can do more reps that way but they are going to have to spot you too because you are not going to be able to do the other motion as much but you can get bigger muscles faster muscles and stronger muscles by focusing on the eccentric motion.
2. There is greater force. You are going to have more disruption and that is what creates the delayed soreness even more than the concentric motion.
3. You will get the best repair possible. A lot of people in rehab physical therapy chiropractic use this type of therapy.
4. Better for tendon. For example, if there is a problem with tendon, fascia or after surgery because there is way more strength in that direction and you can scale it down where there is just a little bit of motion and you can slowly progress and improve things on a nice gradual basis and see a lot of improvement in the tendon function.
5. Eccentric motions are more efficient (less mitochondrial adaptation)
6. Eccentric motion is good for people with sarcopenia, osteopenia, or tendon damage. It is really good for sarcopenia, which is a condition where people are getting older and they are losing their muscles this is a safer type of an exercise.
And then we have osteopenia, which is kind of a precursor to osteoporosis. It is a very good exercise to do for that.
Also, if you have tendon damage in the shoulder or you had you ripped your Achilles tendon or you damaged medial collateral ligaments on your knee this would be a great rehab type exercise.
Eccentric motions may produce more metabolic rate, more improvement with inflammation, and less inflammation.
This type of motion produces more metabolic rate more improvement with inflammation it actually produces less inflammation, which leads to a whole series of additional benefits.
This blog is meant to bring your awareness up of the eccentric movement. It is beneficial if you are trying to recover a certain part of your body.
Dr. Berg is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media. He has taught students nutrition as an adjunct professor at Howard University.
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My focus is to maximize my physical performance and mental clarity and most importantly overall health with a wholesome diet and exercise.
I will bring you compelling articles on Ketogenic and GAPS diets, the Super Slow High-Intensity Exercise Program and supplements.
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GAPS Diet has become known all over the world, helping children and adults to recover from very serious health problems.
Some people do well with following the Full GAPS Diet, which is the easiest to implement and is very suitable for following as a permanent lifestyle. Many people have to go through the GAPS Introduction Diet, which is more difficult to follow, but it achieves deeper healing of the gut and the rest of the body.
This is the version of the Ketogenic diet that is very strict and it is for those people that need to drop weight for a wedding or a situation or you are at a plateau situation and you need to jump start your program.
The first thing you need to know is the principle ofget healthy to lose weight and not lose weight to get healthy.
Healthy Keto emphasizes the quality of the protein, fats and carb macros. We want to use higher quality ingredients and focus on getting healthy first.
First are you doing the following Healthy Keto recommendations?
Are you doing the Healthy Keto correctly?
Are you doing Intermittent Fasting with keto?
Are you sleeping enough to get rested?
Are you under chronic stress? Try to lower your stress.
Do you have another health problem? Thyroid? Constipated? Inflammatory condition? These need to be handled.
Are you on medication? Find an alternative with the help of your doctor.
Are you gaining muscle? This means you are toning you body but not loosing weight. But your body may not be shrinking if are exercising and you measure every week.
Adrenal fatigue is a condition where your adrenal glands get overworked and burned out. It can take a major toll on your health and wellbeing, so you’ll want to avoid the major adrenal fatigue causes if you can. In this article, learn what causes adrenal fatigue and how to fix it.
What is adrenal fatigue?
What are the adrenal glands? The adrenal glands are two triangle-shaped glands. There is one on top of each of your kidneys. The adrenal glands have an outside and an inside. We’re going to be primarily talking about the hormones on the outside—especially cortisol. Cortisol is a stress hormone.
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