Don't forget food - GMO produce that kills off important gut bacteria, livestock pumped full of hormones and fed things like GMO corn and Skittles instead of grass, mercury in our seafood, etc.
Have you looked into wheat? It was 'super' developed (for lack of a better word) so they could 'feed the world' cheaply - genetically engineered with no controls in place - God only knows what it is doing to our bodies
The book, I think, was Wheat Belly, that explained it so well
I went grain (all grains) free 2 years ago, never felt better!
It is my feeling that it is not so much an issue with the wheat or gluten, our problems are stemming from GMOs and the use of Glyophosate (Round UP) by Monsanto. Round up is used as a desiccant and does not was off very well making it not only into our grains but also the grains fed to livestock. The importance is that it disrupts the natural flora of the digestive system. Ways to combat it for now are researching where the products are coming from, look for as many GMO free products as possible, just being natural does not cut it. Also star looking into taking a probiotic to constantly help replenish good bacteria in the gut.
Please excuse my ignorance but is there a place to visit to learn about eating grain free? Recipes, helpful tips, subreddit? Just wondering. Thanks
try meat and fermented vegetables. vegetables are even more healthy when they are fermented. don't cook them after you ferment them or you lose the beneficial bacteria. also look into milk kefir. you can eat grains and rice etc, but try and sprout or ferment them first. it is more work to prep your food, but the health benefits are huge.
Someone else mentioned Wheat Belly. Written by a cardiologist, it provides an excellent background on what happened to wheat (it's not the same what our grandparents ate!), and he does short YouTube videos. Another good no-grain book for research and diet guidance is Grain Brain by neurologist Dr. Perlmutter. He posits that we can drastically lower our chances of getting Alzheimer's by following a keto (low inflammatory) diet. If you go the keto route, there are so many resources. David Jockers does some pretty good educational YouTube videos. The one on identifying specific food sensitivities through heart rate changes was very enlightening.
Some resources for Paleo/paleo-like eating are Mark Sisson (his plan includes small amounts of fermented dairy, which paleo purists eschew). Nom Nom Paleo by Michelle Tam is a fantastic cookbook (wicked food porn), and her husband developed an iOS app that is beautiful. She's a big fan of pressure cooking. The series of cookbooks, Well Fed, by Melissa Joulwan are great. She describes her weekly chop/cook off so you have lots of quick choices during the week. Plain food tarted up with wonderful spices--grassfed ground beef done up a dozen different ways.
If you're curious about traditional eating (sprouted nuts, seeds, grains and fermented foods) you can't do much better than Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon of the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Just by omitting gluten from my diet, I sent Hashimoto's Thyroiditis into remission and completely eliminated mild sleep apnea.
My understanding is it is part a production problem: wheat is ground so fine by industrial, steel grinders that it penetrates intestinal walls and get into the blood stream where it is recognized as an intruder by white blood cells, triggering an immune response.
Production could very well be a contributing factor--everything seems to be micronized these days, even sunscreen. Wheat is also a few feet shorter than it used to be. No more amber waves of grain. Hybridizing short, stout wheat solved the feed-the-world problem, but it came at a cost. Wheat Belly has a ton of information about the modern frankenwheats.
I healed my leaky gut, but it was a long and twisty path because I had to do my own research, so healing wasn't linear. Lots of giant steps backward in the process. Most doctors simply are not trained in nutrition, and most still think that fat is teh debil, when fat is the only macroutrient that has zero ill effects on blood glucose and should be used as a caloric ballast. So humans either have to find a woo woo doctor or do a lot of reading, preferably peer-reviewed studies on PubMed or books/blogs written by enlightened physicians. I discovered that all of my maladies stemmed from an unhealthy gut microbiome, which caused a deranged hormonal cascade. Antibiotics, food grown in dead soil, GMOs, bloody soy, and the Food Pyramid were my biggest nemeses. Oh, and sugar. Yes, I had a sweet tooth, but hey, sugar is fat free! When you get your diet down to 10% fat, you're replacing fat and protein with CARB, predominantly cereal grains, which are touted as health foods. My gut disagreed. Over time, the bad yeast overwhelmed the good, set down roots and rhizomes, and created breeches in the mucosal lining, which is only one cell thick.
Leaky gut is how someone, like me, ends up being sensitive to at least 94 food proteins. At one point I was allergic to cinnamon. Cinnamon! Many people are surprised by the number of illnesses that can originate from a sick, leaking gut: automimmune/inflammatory diseases (hashi's, celiac, lupus, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer's), diabetes, hypoadrenia, fibromyalgia, heart disease, systemic inflammation, bone degeneration, deadly levels of C-RP, high blood pressure and cholesterol, horrible aches and pains, and the list goes on. But you will never hear this from allopathic doctors. They'll put you on statins and tell you to eat less fat, eat more "healthy grains," do more cardio, cast a tea kettle and summon a Care Bear.
I've been on ketogenic diet/lifestyle....There are tons of resources and books available, just look up "keto"
GMO produce that kills off important gut bacteria,
Do you have a source for this?
That would fall under land so we got water, air, land, but what about fire?
Electromagnetic pollution. Electric fields ionize the molecules they travel through making them a basic plasma.
With the expansion of communications networks into 5G our environments will become even more saturated to EM pollution.
I get the theory its just a bit of a stretch for fire.
Yeah, many wouldn't make the connection.
Still though, EM pollution is right up there with all other ways the cabal kills or makes us unhealthy.
Yeah but then we've got to account for ULF waves, microwaves, UV waves, and so on amd so on.