All Disease Begins In The Gut !

mrjamesfowles · September 2018

For many years I have studied nutropath and how our bodies have the ability to heal themselves (given the right conditions).
As all disease begins in the gut, I concentrated here first and was surprised to discover just how terrible a diet most of us have been fed by society
Personally I decided to follow a few simple rules which have benefited me greatly.

Stop eating Wheat, Dairy, Refined Sugar - Now my tummy isn’t bloated, I don’t get abdominal pains and no more migraines!

Eat organic - this gets more minerals into your body and lessens toxins getting in too

Let your tummy rest for 5 hours in between meals - no snacking or nibbling. - my tummy is much much happier now and my stools are normal

Stop eating bad salt (table salt that only has 2 minerals). Instead eat good salt - Celtic or Himalayan salt, that is actually good for you with it’s 82 minerals

Don’t drink during meals. Either drink 1/2 hour before or 1 1/2 hours after. Drinking water during meals brings alkaline to your gut but when you eat, your body produces hydrochloric acid to help digest your food so it’s doesn’t digest properly if you neutralise with water.

Drink more water - small and often

Try to eat more alkalising food as your body works far better and fends off diseases easier.

Stop drinking coffee and other acidic drinks like cola because your body balances the PH levels by drawing on calcium from your bones - which is not good for you as it weakens your bones.

Exercise - this bring more oxygen into your body and wards off cancer, which cannot live in the presence of oxygen

I could talk for hours on this subject and evidence the detail but that is saved for my talks and classes

Hope this snippet of info helps

lynn_glenmont · September 2018

My tummy is happy and my stools are normal without following any of this advice (OK, I do try to exercise, but I can't say I see any effect on my tummy and my stools when I get sidetracked and don't get exercise).

mrjamesfowles wrote: »

For many years I have studied nutropath and how our bodies have the ability to heal themselves (given the right conditions).
As all disease begins in the gut, I concentrated here first and was surprised to discover just how terrible a diet most of us have been fed by society
Personally I decided to follow a few simple rules which have benefited me greatly.

Stop eating Wheat, Dairy, Refined Sugar - Now my tummy isn’t bloated, I don’t get abdominal pains and no more migraines!

Unless someone has a specific medical or genetic condition that makes avoiding wheat or dairy advisable, there is no need to do so.

Your body doesn't know the difference between refined sugar and sugar from an apple, or from a stalk of broccoli, for that matter.

Eat organic - this gets more minerals into your body and lessens toxins getting in too

Let your tummy rest for 5 hours in between meals - no snacking or nibbling. - my tummy is much much happier now and my stools are normal

Stop eating bad salt (table salt that only has 2 minerals). Instead eat good salt - Celtic or Himalayan salt, that is actually good for you with it’s 82 minerals

Relying on salt for the minerals your body needs is just silly. Get the minerals you need from a varied diet of food, not from the salt you add to your food.

Don’t drink during meals. Either drink 1/2 hour before or 1 1/2 hours after. Drinking water during meals brings alkaline to your gut but when you eat, your body produces hydrochloric acid to help digest your food so it’s doesn’t digest properly if you neutralise with water.

Drink more water - small and often

Try to eat more alkalising food as your body works far better and fends off diseases easier.

Stop drinking coffee and other acidic drinks like cola because your body balances the PH levels by drawing on calcium from your bones - which is not good for you as it weakens your bones.

The foods you eat come in all kind of ph levels. Your stomach acid is equipped to deal with all of them, including water. (By the way, many of the "solid" foods you eat, especially vegetables and fruits, are at least 50% water to begin with.)

Your body has mechanisms to maintain your ph level within a very small variation, outside of which you quickly become seriously ill and die. If the food you eat could change your ph, you'd be dead.

estherdragonbat · September 2018

Doing core strength training helped me deal with bloat and PMS cramps. Never had a migraine in my life despite eating all the above.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogsscientificamericancomscience-sushi20110718mythbusting-101-organic-farming-conventional-agriculture/ What toxins are you referring to?
Sorry you've been having bowel issues. Snacks never had that effect on me.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/different-types-of-salt#section8

...Celtic salt has the least amount of sodium and the highest amount of calcium and magnesium. Himalayan salt contains a bit of potassium.

However... keep in mind that these really are tiny amounts. For example, the 0.3% content of magnesium for Celtic salt implies that you would need to eat 100 grams of salt to reach the recommended daily amount.

For this reason, the mineral content of the various salts is actually not a compelling reason to choose one salt over the other. These amounts really are negligible compared to what you get from food.
https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/coral2.html Plus if I don't drink during meals, I'm likely to choke.

AnvilHead · September 2018

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

Your body has mechanisms to maintain your ph level within a very small variation, outside of which you quickly become seriously ill and die. If the food you eat could change your ph, you'd be dead.

Exactly. And the rest of it is pure quackery as well.

middlehaitch · September 2018

Thank you so much for not going on for hours, your post is insightful enough.

Cheers, h.

Evelyn_Gorfram · September 2018

mrjamesfowles wrote: »

... all disease begins in the gut..

You mean like conjunctivitis? Osteoarthritis? Skin cancer? Those all begin in the gut, and only them migrate to systems that have nothing to do with the gut?

paperpudding · September 2018

Well, most of that is really really silly.

I eat wheat, refined sugar,dairy, coffee and drink during meals and never give a minutes thought to whether food is acidic or alkaline - and I have no problems with bloating, toxins, cancer or mineral deficiencies.

Of course if I had a medical reason to do so, I would.
But those of us who have no such medical reason, have no need to avoid these things.

I don't use table salt or any fancy salt - nothing against it but food tastes fine to me without adding salt.
I eat plenty of foods with salt in them but I do not even own a salt shaker and I do not ever add salt.

And, sure, exercise is very good and has many health benifits - but warding off cancer is not one of them.

But what would I know, I am not a naturopath

And come to think of it I had a ( non cancerous) thyroid tumour 2 years ago - perhaps it started in my gut and moved its way un noticed to my thyroid??

If only I hadn't eaten wheat or dairy

mlinci · September 2018

Its all very silly indeed.

I don’t even understand the recommendation not to drink water during meals. How about water contained in soups, stews, yogurt, milk, fruit, and other liquid foods people have been eating for centuries? How is that any different?

amusedmonkey · September 2018

mlinci wrote: »

Its all very silly indeed.

I don’t even understand the recommendation not to drink water during meals. How about water contained in soups, stews, yogurt, milk, fruit, and other liquid foods people have been eating for centuries? How is that any different?

Just like added sugar, added water has the miraculous tendency of stripping food of nutrients so nothing nutritious counts.

comptonelizabeth · September 2018

My mum always told us not to drink water with meals because (she said) it dilutes stomach acid. But she also told us not to sit with our backs to the fire because it would dry up our bone marrow, so probably baloney.
The gut thing : are you referring to our immune system which (according to my gastro consultant) is located in the gut?
The no coffee etc - I have osteoporosis and have been advised to limit coffee and cola and certainly not take my calcium supplement with or soon after those drinks. Not sure the rule would apply to a healthy person though
Exercise like walking MIGHT help to guard against some cancers, eg bowel cancer

Fuzzipeg · September 2018

The role our microbiome plays in our general health has been under stated for way too long. I know if I let my least beneficial microbes (commonly yeasts) get out of control my osteoarthritis gives me a very hard time. So I need to work on improving the quality of life my digestive microbes enjoy, after all there should be more of them than there are of my personal cells!

I'm much older than the average person who uses MFP. Over my life time I've taken rounds of antibiotics and other medications, because they are what you need to eliminate this and that problem but what has only been said in recent years is, each round of antibiotics will eliminate beneficial bacteria along with the ones you are attempting to address. I was never taught to ask, WHY, and what side effects may there be?

It is true one does not necessarily have symptoms which highlight this problem on a incident by incident event. These microbes breakdown foods to enable us to absorb our required nutrition, years of deficiencies contributed to my food and chemical sensitivities and other symptoms, to the extent I could not eat out nor could I visit busy places.

Including "bitter" foods in our diet help with the production of digestive acids and bile flow this can eliminate the need for surgical removal of many gallbladders. Improving the microbiome has been shown to improve mental health in many, their well being improved because of better uptake of the nutrients in their foods. Scientists have discovered our general lack in biome diversity against communities who live as their ancestors did, no farmed foods, only free growing things have greater biodiversity. Their communities do not have the autoimmune health problems we do and the thread is being followed to discover the role different microbes play in all this.

So by including many and varies food species, plant and animal/fish along with much more fibre than is MFP's suggestion, many health conditions can be brought under control, especially when added sugar is kept to a minimum.

Many of you will scoff at this concept. I really hope non reading this and clicking the woo button go on to know the restrictions I have known.

I'm not saying there are no circumstances in which antibiotics and other medications are un-necessary because there are parts of the world which desperately need all the scientific benefits our 21st century can provide, only that we should consider the broader picture which is now coming together. Society should encourage our doctors and health professionals to embrace the scientific communities more recent findings and leave the beliefs of the 1950's where they belong, in the past. Wishing everyone a long and Healthy Life.

paperpudding · September 2018

Society should encourage our doctors and health professionals to embrace the scientific communities more recent findings and leave the beliefs of the 1950's where they belong, in the past.

Which recent findings do you think doctors are not embracing??

and which outdated beliefs of the 1950s are they clinging to??

Fuzzipeg · September 2018

Look to the NHS

KNoceros · September 2018

So if cancer cannot survive in an oxygen containing environment, please explain skin cancer (ie exposed to the air which is 21% oxygen) to me.

What a load of twaddle.

NovusDies · September 2018

@mrjamesfowles How do you feel about cooking with paper towels? If one wanted to attend one of these classes of yours at which Radisson will you be appearing next?

snickerscharlie · September 2018

Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »

mrjamesfowles wrote: »

... all disease begins in the gut..

You mean like conjunctivitis? Osteoarthritis? Skin cancer? Those all begin in the gut, and only them migrate to systems that have nothing to do with the gut?

Yes, because Leaky Gut (which isn't a thing) spreads deadly toxins everywhere!

Think of it like Disease Whack-a-Mole.

workinonit1956 · September 2018

Please.....

pogiguy05 · September 2018

What works for you may not work for others.

That would be like saying hey lets all do chemotherapy that way no one will get cancer.

SuzySunshine99 · September 2018

Besides all the other nonsense....
Am I the only one who feels that adults should not use the word "tummy" when speaking to other adults?
Anyone older than 5 should not be using that word. It's called your stomach.

ceiswyn · September 2018

mrjamesfowles wrote: »

For many years I have studied nutropath and how our bodies have the ability to heal themselves (given the right conditions).
As all disease begins in the gut, I concentrated here first and was surprised to discover just how terrible a diet most of us have been fed by society
Personally I decided to follow a few simple rules which have benefited me greatly.

Stop eating Wheat, Dairy, Refined Sugar - Now my tummy isn’t bloated, I don’t get abdominal pains and no more migraines!

Eat organic - this gets more minerals into your body and lessens toxins getting in too

Let your tummy rest for 5 hours in between meals - no snacking or nibbling. - my tummy is much much happier now and my stools are normal

Stop eating bad salt (table salt that only has 2 minerals). Instead eat good salt - Celtic or Himalayan salt, that is actually good for you with it’s 82 minerals

Don’t drink during meals. Either drink 1/2 hour before or 1 1/2 hours after. Drinking water during meals brings alkaline to your gut but when you eat, your body produces hydrochloric acid to help digest your food so it’s doesn’t digest properly if you neutralise with water.

Drink more water - small and often

Try to eat more alkalising food as your body works far better and fends off diseases easier.

Stop drinking coffee and other acidic drinks like cola because your body balances the PH levels by drawing on calcium from your bones - which is not good for you as it weakens your bones.

Exercise - this bring more oxygen into your body and wards off cancer, which cannot live in the presence of oxygen

I could talk for hours on this subject and evidence the detail but that is saved for my talks and classes

Hope this snippet of info helps

What? I mean, what?

This bunch of woo isn’t even internally consistent. How can anyone take it seriously?

YvetteK2015 · September 2018

paperpudding wrote: »

Society should encourage our doctors and health professionals to embrace the scientific communities more recent findings and leave the beliefs of the 1950's where they belong, in the past.

Which recent findings do you think doctors are not embracing??

and which outdated beliefs of the 1950s are they clinging to??

I believe they are referring to the massive overuse of antibiotics. It was very common, and does still happen though they are trying to stop...giving antibiotics for every cold, flu, and sniffle that doesn't involve an infection.

All Disease Begins In The Gut !

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