All Disease Begins In The Gut !
mrjamesfowles
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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
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
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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.
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- 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.
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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.
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Thank you so much for not going on for hours, your post is insightful enough.
Cheers, h.16 -
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?mrjamesfowles wrote: »... all disease begins in the gut..
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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
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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?11 -
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.8 -
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 cancer5 -
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.29 -
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??9 -
Look to the NHS17
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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.12 -
@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?8
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Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
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?mrjamesfowles wrote: »... all disease begins in the gut..
Yes, because Leaky Gut (which isn't a thing) spreads deadly toxins everywhere!
Think of it like Disease Whack-a-Mole.
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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.
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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.25 -
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?9 -
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.4 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »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.
Bwahahahaha!
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mrjamesfowles wrote: »For many years I have studied nutropath and how our bodies have the ability to heal themselves (given the right conditions).
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
You have to eat approximately 2 cups of salt per day to gain ANY benefit from minerals (except iodized table salt) it contains. 2 cups will kill you. Sea salt and specialty salts can have a flavor and texture which make them good for finishing a dish but add nothing nutritionally.mrjamesfowles wrote: »
Drink more water
Only reasonable advice in all the woo, but I would state it as "get more fluids"mrjamesfowles wrote: »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.
There is some evidence that drinking cola can reduce bone density but it is the phosphoric acid in it, not the pH that seems to be the culprit. This is a correlation that warrants further study to determine if it is actually a causation but it cannot be presented as fact yet.4 -
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
My clinical depression didn't start in my tummy.
With the advent of atomic energy and the dropping of atomic bombs, every inch of soil on the planet now contains low levels of radiation. Organic food may be free of chemical pesticides, but it doesn't mean it's free of all chemicals. And I don't like eating caterpillars with my broccoli (they're extremely good at hiding).
I have no idea what alkalising food is. Something about olives?
I'm diabetic. If I don't eat at least every four hours I get tired and confused and my blood glucose could be affected. I'm sure other diabetics can go on an empty stomach for longer. I can't.
The acid our stomachs produce is quite strong and very good at breaking down food taken with water. The human race has also coped admirably with washing down food with water for a very long time.
Eating a balanced diet isn't supposed to be the equivalent of entering a labyrinth.
All salt is bad for you (unless you have medical issues that require a higher intake) if you don't need as much salt as you're using. I don't know if doctors care about the mineral composition of ordinary salt when their patients are keeling over from a stroke.
Food shouldn't be this hard to do if you're an average human with no issues that require a specialised diet. It's supposed to be easy and fairly enjoyable, not a quantum theorem that you need a roomful of blackboards to figure out. If it works for you, crack on. Extolling it is a different matter.
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I laughed at "nutropath" followed by "a few simple rules" followed by a complex list of unnecessary crap.21
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SuzySunshine99 wrote: »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.
Why shouldn't adults use "tummy"? It's a cute word. I heard it comes from "tumescence', but I haven't looked up its etymology.6 -
Millicent3015 wrote: »SuzySunshine99 wrote: »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.
Why shouldn't adults use "tummy"? It's a cute word. I heard it comes from "tumescence', but I haven't looked up its etymology.
Agreed. Generally it is used when discussing something in a lighthearted manner rather than being serious. I tend to use it a lot out of habit because I foster kittens so I am always talking about the tummy.3 -
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Millicent3015 wrote: »SuzySunshine99 wrote: »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.
Why shouldn't adults use "tummy"? It's a cute word. I heard it comes from "tumescence', but I haven't looked up its etymology.
I just looked up the etymology for you...Websters says it's "baby-talk alteration of stomach".
And that's why I hate it...I'm an adult who doesn't like baby-talk. But, I'm also a curmudgeon who hates everything cute, so there ya go. 12 -
I did. I had a thyroid condition for which the only treatment was t4 tablets with dairy or liquid with preservatives both made me ill, I had no alternative but to look for other ways to regain my health. The local endo over rode the Regional immunologist salicylate in food does not cause health problems when it does. So I could not have treatment on the NHS. I was virtually housebound no life worth living, what the heck is should have just got on with being satisfied with what I had and been in a care facility by now costing my family an arm and a leg.
My best friend died of ovarian cancer. She was told take imodium for the symptoms she had it was too late by the time she was diagnosed. Myself, I survived my cancer but not before I was told the symptoms I was trying to live with were normal for women get on with it. Had my thyroid concerns been treated properly I believe I would not have developed my cancer!
On the subject of pain, a granddaughter fractured her collar bone till the 10th of August she believed she had a low pain threshold, a male doctor told her this. She had only just arrived at the hospital when she produced her son. She thought its got to be harder than this...…………….. My daughter then in her 40's also fractured her collar bone, when it was not repairing itself as it should they did not test to see if her bone density and status was good, her hgh, They chose to leave her 10 months before operating! Back to the Matty wing again. My fitst Granddaughter was sent home because, "She was not ready" only to return 2 hours later and pup virtually on the door step.
I heard this morning of someone Sectioned under out Mental health act who should not have been. This person is, I forget the politically correct term, in need of support, she was told take these pills or we will give you them in a shot! A friend suggested she contact a solicitor and was able to overturn the section being allowed home no pills and potion's with dreadful side effects which I've seen take grown men off their feet.
now we have a family member who has a form of MS called TM. This person presented 8 weeks ago, told, ok come back when your numbness reaches your knees, so he did, to be told, come back when it has reached your groin! to be told come back when it reaches your neck which he did was put on a treatment for an autoimmune disease for a week to be told your test results aren't right for Gillam Barre must be TM, now he has septic hands, A and E did not know what it was told him go to the doctor he has waited a week to have a phone consultation tomorrow or is it Tuesday. Does this mean it is TM or is it some other weird health problem which may mean he will not live to see his NINE month old grow up? He is still numb up to his neck can barely walk, he staggers, can't lift his son or be left to care for him on his own. What the hell is going on.
If you are fortunate and find a doctor who makes the box he/she has fit your circumstances or your are left dyeing following a road accident or other unbearable happening they are wonderful.
My mother has a loose hip replacement, the A and E consultant wanted to replace it for her. The family doctor had shallow steps, which send the rest of us flying when we visit, for he to get in and out safely but she hardly goes out she is too frightened to. She lives with my sister who is a part qualified doctor did not complete her taining because she was been pushed to paediatrics and she can't stand kids.
Clarie, I'm glad for you that the people you have met in the NHS were able to give you the treatment and respect you needed/deserved many are not getting this.
I love what the NHS is supposed to stand for. I worked for it.
I'm fortunate at least I've got my health back by in part healing my digestive tract and immune system. Unlike another friend who needed her knee replacement because of all the care and understanding she gave willingly to NHS patients over many years and now has a foot which faces outwards and makes walking very painful, because someone did not do their job properly and even as someone who worked long hard hours did not deserve a leg which functioned properly.
There is some very shoddy practice. The Hampshire hospital where people were over prescribed pain relief and died when they did not need it! Now I can't remember the hospital, we are hearing of families who are short of much loved children because of the "practice" not to listen to women who have said my baby is no longer moving.
All this hurts me personally. I love the "free at the point of need", regardless of the ability to pay.
eta. the person in my family with Possibly MS has not had a scan to see if there are lesions on his nerves and brain and where ever they are waiting to see while more damage is probably being done to his nerve coverings. He is to go back in two months.21
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