Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Healing a decay tooth
http://www.realfarmacy.com/healing-cavities-a-true-weve-done-it-story/
Healing Cavities (A True “We’ve-Done-It!” Story!)
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Oh, people. I”m about to reveal something to you that has taken me months to work up the nerve to confess.
Are you ready for this? {I’m not sure I am, but here goes…}
I haven’t used toothpaste in over a year.
Oh my gosh. I can’t believe I just said that out loud. On the internet.
I guess now I have to explain myself, huh?
Exploring alternate tooth care…
Over a year ago now I started looking into natural tooth care, as part of my goal to make better, more natural choices in each area of my health and my household.
I thought we had been doing good in this area, using a ‘natural’ brand toothpaste. Until I realized that even my natural toothpaste had stuff I knew I wanted to avoid–like sweeteners, fluoride, and glycerin.
It didn’t take long as I looking into natural, holistic approaches to tooth care to realize that what we eat has so much more of an affect on our teeth than the substance we scrub them with, and maybe my search for a ‘safe’ toothpaste was a waste of energy. And then I read about people not using toothpaste at all, and, well, since toothpaste (and the alternatives people talked about using) has always given me the ibby-jibbies, I decided to just quit the habit entirely.
So, I just scrubbed with water. And it seemed to work fine.
What in the world is Oil Pulling?
Later, I heard about oil pulling. It was such a strange term, I didn’t even look into it for a while. Till I realized that the pain and sensitivity I had been experiencing in my teeth off an on for a while might be remedied through this idea. So, I read up on it—it made sense (coconut oil is anti-bacterial, and could pull toxins from your mouth when you swished it in your mouth for 15-20 min.)—and I tried it.
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I posted the above photo on my Facebook page and had a lot of friends ask me to report how it worked. So, here’s the report:
I loved how my teeth felt on this new cleansing routine—I felt it reduced plaque and made my teeth stronger. Within a month, all sensitivity I’d been experiencing in my lower molars was gone.
So, I quit toothpaste, and replaced it with oil pulling, and my teeth have never been healthier.
Now, that’s my story, but I put a ‘we’ in the title, because Jeremy’s got a story, too.
And Then Mr. Holden Tried It…
Several months ago, my husband came up to me and said, “I think I have a cavity.” I looked in his mouth and was mortified. His back wisdom tooth was—I kid you not—green and brown and black and pitted, and definitely did not look healthy. Neither of us had ever had a cavity before, but I was pretty sure this was a case study.
I said, “Honey! You need to start oil pulling right away!”
Well, you know, he kinda looked at me the way I imagine you looked at me when I said I quit toothpaste.
But a week later, he felt a chunk flake off of said tooth, and the next morning he pulled out the coconut oil before breakfast. (They say you should rinse first thing in the am).
He began oil pulling faithfully every morning, as well as taking cod liver oil (upping nutrition was something I read was key to regenerating tooth decay). Within 3 days, he said the pain was gone. And a month later, after oil pulling 5-6 times a week, I looked in his mouth, and his tooth was—are you ready for this? White. White with a bit of yellow, but the black and green and brown were all gone, and the surface of the tooth was smoothing out instead of being pitted.
People, I am not lyin’ here.
Tooth regeneration is possible, and surprisingly simple…
God designed our bodies so incredibly. If we are nourishing our bodies well, He designed them to be able to heal from injury and disease—even our teeth.
I share our stories because the idea of ‘healing your teeth’ is quite foreign to people. But listen to this…
“That tooth decay is caused by nutrient deficiencies and not bacteria has been proven in both animal and laboratory experiments published in books and dental journals…
…If brushing, flossing, massive fluoridation campaigns, and dental surgery were effective in preventing tooth decay, it would not get worse over time. It would stay the same, or get better.” (Ramiel Nagel of CureToothDecay.com)
But that’s not what’s happening, is it? It has become normal to have our teeth rot out of our head, starting not in our 60’s, or 40’s, but as children and even babies.
“What is missing from the ADA’s bacteria theory of cavities is that strong teeth resist acid and bacteria. And when you, the consumer, understand that a strong tooth resists acid indefinitely, then the next logical question is, what makes a tooth strong?” (Ramiel Nagel)
The answer, which Ramiel details in his ebook (linked below) is good nutrition. And you know what it means when I use that term around here…lots of whole foods, good fat, raw milk, tasty meats and properly prepared grains and veggies. Ramiel especially stresses whole, raw milk in the diet and plenty of deeply nourishing fats like butter oil and cod liver oil.
So, gotta a toothache? Wish you had stronger teeth? Don’t despair. You can actually do something other than have them all pulled and getting dentures. (Oh, yay!) Increase your nutrition and try oil pulling!
How to Oil Pull With Coconut Oil
1. Scoop about 2 tsp. of coconut oil out of your jar and pop it in your mouth.
2. Chew or hold the oil in your mouth till it melts and becomes liquid (takes about 30 seconds).
3. Start swishing, pulling the oil back and forth and sideways through all your teeth.
4. Swish for 20 min., spitting the oil out (into the trash) when you’re finished.
Why Oil Pulling works:
Your teeth are actually porous, comprised of yards and yards of minute passages (like a sponge) that bring nutrients to the outer enamel when good nutrition is present in your diet…or suck toxins into the teeth when nutrition is lacking. Oil itself has the ability to cut right through plaque to the tooth surface, and coconut oil in particular has rich, anti-bacterial properties. It’s believed that one of the reasons oil pulling strengthens teeth is that it can help reverse the flow of toxins, pulling bacteria out of the teeth, and becoming a vehicle to dispose of toxins. Also, we’ve found the swishing action can be as effective as flossing, without any damage to gums (yes–I’ve gotten popcorn kernels out with oil pulling!)
Where to get good Coconut Oil:
Any organic, cold-pressed, virgin coconut oil will work for this. If it smells like coconut, that’s a sign that it hasn’t been over-processed and still has all the wonderful things God put in the coconut to begin with! You’re looking for coconut oil that is cold pressed, extra virgin, and organic, like this brand available right from Amazon (this is an affiliate links–thanks for helping me keep the lights on around here!).
Here’s some resources for further reading on Healing Cavities…
-Can a Cavity be Healed with Nutrition? on Keeper of the Home
-How I Healed My Child’s Cavity…this post from The Healthy Home Economist is what convinced me we could heal Jeremy’s tooth.
-The Healthy Mouth Summit…I attended this online seminar last January. Extremely educational and exciting!
-Tips and Tricks to Remineralize and Repair Your Teeth by Ramiel Nagel of CureToothDecay.com a clearly explained argument for a nutritional approach to oral health–a very helpful little book!
Remember, oil pulling is just part of a natural tooth care plan. Our teeth will be strong when our bodies are well nourished with plenty of whole, nourishing foods. For help getting started on your real food journey, check out this series I wrote just for you. If you struggle to source whole foods like raw milk, check out “What to do if you can’t find or afford raw milk” or my resource page. And for my best secrets to feeding your family well even when life gets busy, I offer my book, Real {Fast} Food!
Credit: Trina Holden
Monday, 3 March 2014
Milk Kills
White Poison: The Horrors of Milk
December 2, 2001 |
Got milk? If not, then thank your lucky stars. Because if you do, medical research shows that you are likely to be plagued by anemia, migraine, bloating, gas, indigestion, asthma, prostate cancer, and a host of potentially fatal allergies -- especially if you are a person of color.
Ignoring this, the government declares that milk is essential to good health, subsidizes the milk industry to the tune of billions of dollars, and requires milk in its public school lunch programs. And celebrity shills sporting milk mustaches tell us that milk is rich in proteins, calcium, and vitamins -- and very cool to boot.
They forget to tell you about the dangers lurking in that innocuous-looking glass of white. Once criticized only by naturopaths and vegans, now the health effects of milk are being decried by many mainstream doctors. The supposedly hip milk mustache is actually a creamy layer of mucus, live bacteria, and pus.
Former Chairman of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, Frank Oski, M.D. even has a book called Don't Drink Your Milk which blames every second health problem kids suffer on hormone-ridden commercial milk. Sixty percent of ear infections in kids under six years of age are milk-induced, and milk consumption is the number one cause of iron-deficiency anemia in infants today according to the American Association of Pediatrics.
But milk is also a racial issue. Almost 90 percent of African Americans and most Latinos, Asians, and Southern Europeans lack the genes necessary to digest lactose, the primary sugar in milk. The milk industry's response is classic: they have launched new campaigns arguing that non-whites can digest milk if they take in small sips during the day. There is a burgeoning industry worth $450 million a year churning out products designed to minimize lactose intolerance.
Lactose intolerance is the most common "food allergy," but to call it an allergy is to take a white-centric view that trivializes the fact that most of the world's people are not biologically designed to digest milk.
Milk does no body good, but for the vast majority of the world's people -- people of color -- it is a public health disaster.
No other animal drinks cow's milk, not even calves once they are weaned. The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, the U.S.'s leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding "cow's glue" to children, saying it can cause anemia, allergies, and diabetes and in the long term, will set kids up for obesity and heart disease, the number one cause of death in this country.
Most of milk's much-vaunted protein is contained in casein -- which is also a raw material for commercial glue. Undigested, it simply sticks to the intestinal walls and blocks nutrient absorption.
The mainstream media and the government ignore the medical studies showing that milk is a serious health threat, in part because people of color are the main victims. The institutionalization of racism is highlighted by U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesperson Eilene Kennedy's statement on milk, that the government's recommended food pyramid is intended for "the majority of Americans. It doesn't communicate to all Americans."
The USDA continues to require that school lunch programs include milk with every meal, and recommend that we glug milk for calcium, even though Harvard studies show an increase in osteoporosis and bone-breakage in people who consume milk. It says we should drink milk to prevent heart disease (and is echoed by Larry King) even though saturated fat constitutes 55 percent of milk solids.
The dairy lobby perpetrates lies to ensure its profits. It benefits directly from the exaggerated support prices the government shells out for this "health food." The government pays over a billion dollars a year for surplus butter. A General Accounting Office (GAO) study concluded that a reduction in the government price support system would have netted consumers savings of $10.4 billion from 1986 to 2001. And the USDA pays inflated prices to purchase dairy products for both the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and federal school lunch programs -- milking the taxpayers and actually getting them to pay for poisoning 26 million school kids.
The milk lobby has whipsawed its way into the highest echelons of power. Staffers under Richard Nixon were indicted for accepting $300,000 from the dairy lobby for making milk part of the school lunch program.
Dr. Robert Cohen of the Dairy Education Board, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exposing the milk lobby, contends that the dramatic 52 percent rise in asthma deaths among minority kids in New York coincided with the surplus milk, cheese, and butter pumped into them under the USDA's free school lunch and breakfast giveaway programs. The incidence of asthma deaths may be even higher since asthma is not a reportable disease, and asthma deaths are sometimes certified as cardiovascular disease.
There is also a direct link between milk consumption and prostate cancer among African Americans, who have the highest incidence of this disease in the world. A study in Cancer has shown that men who reported drinking three or more glasses of whole milk daily had a higher risk for prostate cancer than men who reported never drinking whole milk.
The controversial Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) -- banned in most countries -- is pumped into U.S. milch cows to increase annual yield (50,000 pounds of milk per cow today compared to 2,000 pounds in 1959). Milk from cows treated with BGH is likely to contain pus from their udders since the hormone leads to mastitis, or udder infection. BGH use results in a tumor-promoting chemical (IGF-I) that has been implicated in an explosive increase of cancer of the colon, smooth muscle, and breast.
The antibiotics dairy farmers use to treat BGH-caused infections in cows appear in their milk and greatly hasten human tolerance to most antibiotics, a potentially life-threatening state of affairs. The Center for Science in the Public Interest reports that 38 percent of milk samples in 10 cities were contaminated with sulfa drugs and other antibiotics.
A fightback is beginning. Protesters picketed New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's planned milk promotion campaign with a photo of the mayor wearing a milk mustache over the caption, "Got Prostate Cancer?" Giuliani (who, like his father, has prostate cancer) dropped the campaign. And doctors from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) persuaded Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams not to declare May 11 as "Drink Chocolate Milk Day" by presenting evidence that milk is harmful, especially to people of color.
The PCRM -- composed of some of the leading doctors in the U.S. -- has campaigned extensively in the health and consumer press and led a successful legal effort in 1999 to make dairy products optional in the federal food guidelines. The campaign was supported by a number of prominent civil rights organizations and leaders, including the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, Martin Luther King, III, Jesse Jackson, Jr., the National Hispanic Medical Association, and former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders.
The dairy lobby remains cozy with most medical practitioners to perpetrate its "drink milk" propaganda. However, not one of the 1,500 papers listed in Medicine that deal with milk points to its goodness -- only to the pus, blood, antibiotics, and carcinogens in milk, and the chronic fatigue, anemia, asthma, and autoimmune disorders milk consumption causes.
The time has come for the milk industry to face the kind of scrutiny that the tobacco companies face today. Meanwhile, discard the moo juice.
http://www.alternet.org/story/12002/white_poison%3A_the_horrors_of_milk
Friday, 13 December 2013
Black Fungus lower cholesterol in 2 weeks
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Friday, 22 November 2013
Stroke : how I cure stroke myself
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/3355207/Stroke-I-had-to-cure-myself.html
Dr Martin Stephen 12:01AM BST 16 Jun 2008 Comments Dr Martin Stephen, High Master of St Paul's, on how, with the help of his mother-in-law, he devised his own programme of recovery after a stroke Video: Surviving a stroke Suffering a stroke was not like having the carpet ripped from under one's feet. The floor went as well. In a few hours, I was transformed from a healthy, professional 56-year-old into a lump of flesh on a hospital trolley. The skills I had learnt as a child - standing up, writing, even holding a cup - had gone, and my speech was heavily slurred. The first harsh realisation was that something very bad had happened. The second was that nobody in the hospital was going to tell me how to get better (the only advice I received comprised vague noises about the need for "rehabilitation" and "exercises"). The third realisation was a consequence of the first two: I had to get out of hospital and cure myself. Bizarrely, I owe my recovery to my mother-in-law. Her husband had received almost no help when, in 2003, he had suffered a stroke in his seventies. So she had gone on the internet - as one does at 74 - and found that major strides had been made in America in treating stroke victims. Research there showed that damaged neural pathways could be re-routed, and that a diminished signal could be sent through the outer lining of an otherwise dead nerve. The key was speed. After three or four weeks, the brain seemed to start a permanent shut-down on these pathways. So my mother-in-law invented a rehab programme, a crucial part of which was making my father-in-law sit up in bed and bounce a tennis ball off the wall - she acted as a cross between a wicket keeper and a retriever. So I decided to bounce a tennis ball 2,000 times a day off the kitchen floor, missed catches not counting. At first it was a farce. I could hardly bounce the ball, never mind catch it. The first day it took four hours to reach the target. Yet clearly more than bouncing a tennis ball was needed; I needed to identify the skills I had lost and re-learn them. For example, what use is a headmaster who can't write? So I bought an A4 pad of lined paper, and wrote out the alphabet, one line per letter, for two hours a day. The first stabs were meaningless squiggles. An intense depression swept over me. Using a keyboard proved no easier. When I tried to type my name, it read something like "nsar5un Sy4phwn". I vowed to do 10 pages a day, typing out my corrections on my latest book with one finger. The first 10 pages took three days. Headmasters need to speak, too, so I decided to recite the poems of Andrew Marvell for two hours a day, with a wine cork stuck between my front teeth, an old trick I remembered from suffering a stammer as a child. That way, you have to move the lips more to make any sense; it acts like a form of weight training. A headmaster who can't walk isn't much use either. The problem was, when I did walk again, very slowly, I moved crab-like at a 45-degree angle. So I marched up and down the stripes on the lawn for two hours a day. When the foot crossed a stripe, there was a mental slap of wrist. Finally, my wife bought me one of those old-fashioned children's games where you have to pass a wire ring over an electrified wire without touching it, thus avoiding the irritating buzz. More fun was a computer game flying a virtual F15 jet - or, in my case, crashing it thousands of times on the runway before finally landing it - after 40 hours' "flying" time. Well - sort of landing it. The undercarriage and one wing had broken off, but the computer said I was alive. The stupid game proved a turning point. Finally I had managed to achieve hand-to-eye co-ordination. It took two-and-a-half months to get back to a semblance of normality, six months before I considered myself cured. I came close to giving up the grind of rehab. But by choosing tasks like writing the alphabet or counting how many times I could walk down the lawn without crossing a stripe, I could monitor my own progress. The difference between success and failure was also the unfailing support of my wife, my three children and my employer - and a deep anger that I was not offered more help to start with. I am haunted still, three years on, by the thought of all the people who are not told that a stroke is not a death-knell, nor the end to a career or normal life. Sadly, not everyone has a mother-in-law like mine. 'The Diary of a Stroke' by Martin Stephen is available from Telegraph Books for £11.99 + £1.25 p&p. To order, call 0870 428 4112 or order online at books.telegraph.co.uk Martin's rehab 1 Bounced a tennis ball 2,000 times against a wall 2 Wrote out the alphabet, one line per letter, for two hours 3 Recited the poems of Andrew Marvell for two hours with a cork between his teeth 4 Marched up and down the stripes on the lawn for two hours, without touching where the stripes met 5 Played the F15 flight simulator game for two hours
Dr Martin Stephen 12:01AM BST 16 Jun 2008 Comments Dr Martin Stephen, High Master of St Paul's, on how, with the help of his mother-in-law, he devised his own programme of recovery after a stroke Video: Surviving a stroke Suffering a stroke was not like having the carpet ripped from under one's feet. The floor went as well. In a few hours, I was transformed from a healthy, professional 56-year-old into a lump of flesh on a hospital trolley. The skills I had learnt as a child - standing up, writing, even holding a cup - had gone, and my speech was heavily slurred. The first harsh realisation was that something very bad had happened. The second was that nobody in the hospital was going to tell me how to get better (the only advice I received comprised vague noises about the need for "rehabilitation" and "exercises"). The third realisation was a consequence of the first two: I had to get out of hospital and cure myself. Bizarrely, I owe my recovery to my mother-in-law. Her husband had received almost no help when, in 2003, he had suffered a stroke in his seventies. So she had gone on the internet - as one does at 74 - and found that major strides had been made in America in treating stroke victims. Research there showed that damaged neural pathways could be re-routed, and that a diminished signal could be sent through the outer lining of an otherwise dead nerve. The key was speed. After three or four weeks, the brain seemed to start a permanent shut-down on these pathways. So my mother-in-law invented a rehab programme, a crucial part of which was making my father-in-law sit up in bed and bounce a tennis ball off the wall - she acted as a cross between a wicket keeper and a retriever. So I decided to bounce a tennis ball 2,000 times a day off the kitchen floor, missed catches not counting. At first it was a farce. I could hardly bounce the ball, never mind catch it. The first day it took four hours to reach the target. Yet clearly more than bouncing a tennis ball was needed; I needed to identify the skills I had lost and re-learn them. For example, what use is a headmaster who can't write? So I bought an A4 pad of lined paper, and wrote out the alphabet, one line per letter, for two hours a day. The first stabs were meaningless squiggles. An intense depression swept over me. Using a keyboard proved no easier. When I tried to type my name, it read something like "nsar5un Sy4phwn". I vowed to do 10 pages a day, typing out my corrections on my latest book with one finger. The first 10 pages took three days. Headmasters need to speak, too, so I decided to recite the poems of Andrew Marvell for two hours a day, with a wine cork stuck between my front teeth, an old trick I remembered from suffering a stammer as a child. That way, you have to move the lips more to make any sense; it acts like a form of weight training. A headmaster who can't walk isn't much use either. The problem was, when I did walk again, very slowly, I moved crab-like at a 45-degree angle. So I marched up and down the stripes on the lawn for two hours a day. When the foot crossed a stripe, there was a mental slap of wrist. Finally, my wife bought me one of those old-fashioned children's games where you have to pass a wire ring over an electrified wire without touching it, thus avoiding the irritating buzz. More fun was a computer game flying a virtual F15 jet - or, in my case, crashing it thousands of times on the runway before finally landing it - after 40 hours' "flying" time. Well - sort of landing it. The undercarriage and one wing had broken off, but the computer said I was alive. The stupid game proved a turning point. Finally I had managed to achieve hand-to-eye co-ordination. It took two-and-a-half months to get back to a semblance of normality, six months before I considered myself cured. I came close to giving up the grind of rehab. But by choosing tasks like writing the alphabet or counting how many times I could walk down the lawn without crossing a stripe, I could monitor my own progress. The difference between success and failure was also the unfailing support of my wife, my three children and my employer - and a deep anger that I was not offered more help to start with. I am haunted still, three years on, by the thought of all the people who are not told that a stroke is not a death-knell, nor the end to a career or normal life. Sadly, not everyone has a mother-in-law like mine. 'The Diary of a Stroke' by Martin Stephen is available from Telegraph Books for £11.99 + £1.25 p&p. To order, call 0870 428 4112 or order online at books.telegraph.co.uk Martin's rehab 1 Bounced a tennis ball 2,000 times against a wall 2 Wrote out the alphabet, one line per letter, for two hours 3 Recited the poems of Andrew Marvell for two hours with a cork between his teeth 4 Marched up and down the stripes on the lawn for two hours, without touching where the stripes met 5 Played the F15 flight simulator game for two hours
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Moringa pain
Some Of The Main Pain Relief Benefits Of Moringa
Virtually everyone experiences pain in their body at some point and usually people use all sorts of medications to fight the pain, however, that really isn't the best way to go about it. Medications can be really hurtful over time and really do more harm than good in the end. That being said, it's important for people to fight pain in more natural ways and one way to do that is by using an all-natural product that is called Moringa. This article will discuss the many pain relief benefits of Moringa for those who are looking for an alternative to medications.
There are plenty of pain relief benefits of Moringa starting with the fact that it helps fight arthritis pain, gout, joint pain, knee pain, aches around the body, and inflammation as well, which is actually one of the main causes of pain. Simply put, just about any ache or pain can be cured by ingesting Moringa productssuch as Miracle Tea on a regular basis, however, that isn't where it all ends with Moringa tea. There is a lot more that this particular tea has to offer.
Not only are there pain pelief benefits of Moringa, there are also benefits that are somewhat unnoticeable. For example, it is believed that people who drink Moringa tea benefit themselves by helping their liver and kidneys function more properly. Also, great benefits like promoting the structure of cells in the body, boosting one's immune system, nourishing the eyes as well as the brain, and the fact that it's also an anti-oxidant means that this tea can basically cure the body in every way, shape, and form! What's even greater is that the benefits don't even end there!
So, there are pain relief benefits of Moringa and there are plenty of other benefits that include making the body healthier, but what about the outside of the body? Moringa tea is also known to help make skin clearer and more beautiful by reducing the amount of wrinkles and lines that form on a person's skin! In the end, there really aren't a lot of other things out there that can benefit the body in as many ways as Moringa tea can, so go ahead and give it a try right away!
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
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