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Through seaweeds, the earth’s sea-blood strengthens our own sea-blood that we carry within us. Seaweeds are an excellent source of trace minerals in our diet. As our air and water become more acidified through pollution, minerals are leached and depleted from our land fields, and they wash down to the sea, where the wild seaweeds incorporate them. When we eat seaweeds, we take these minerals back into our bodies, and these minerals help us maintain an alkaline condition in our bloodstream, which is a healthy condition, resistant to fatigue and stress. See www.theseaweedman.com for pure, health-giving seaweeds from pristine shores of Maine.
Yesterday at my class at DOROT I outlined a simple at home protocol for pain prevention/treatment. It is easy to take care of yourself daily and prevent discomforts by doing these simple things. * Start the day with stretches. In bed, if it is comfortable, stretch out on your back allowing your spine to relax downward level with the bed. If you have neck issues OK this first with your chiropractor: allow your head to lean back over the edge of the bed. Your head is lower than your body. Hold that position for a few minutes and very gently turn your head from side to side. That lengthens the neck and opens circulation for the cervical vertebrae. Be careful coming out of this position. Scoot back on to the bed so that your head is supported. Roll over on to your side, support yourself with your arm when getting up. Avoid this if it makes you dizzy or you have serious hypertension. * Start the day with hot/warm green tea. You can add lemon grass, ginger, and mint if you tend to have indigestion. The point is to start with a WARM beverage not a cold or raw one because that supports easy digestion and prevents migraine.
Introducing spirulina junkie, a beautiful girl who posts fun healthy recipes. Here is one that inspires me. I will try it this summer substituting Nopalea juice for coconut juice or mixing the two. You will enjoy her refreshing upbeat website. Here is what spirulina is all about, a detailed article from University of Maryland Medical Center:
I love experimenting with homemade natural beauty treatments. My latest enthusiasm is a nourishing hair and complexion splash using seaweed. It smells oceanic and the sea minerals feel very strengthening. We absorb nutrients more effectively through the skin than in foods. In my book, Healthy Beauty I recommended lots of foods, supplements and natural treatments for hair and complexion beauty. Staying young and attractive is vital for basic health. Whatever we apply to skin and hair goes deep to affect the blood, liver, and mood. Acids, irritants, chemical poisons and dyes affect our nerves and brain as they pass from outside/inward. So that looking good naturally, without additives, builds wellness.
On a calm black night, you can smell the seaweed giving life and breath to earth and feel the easy flow of waves caressing the ocean floor. This is Maine near the Canadian border, the home of the seaweed man, Larch Hanson. I love getting emails and buying seaweed from him. He has devoted four decades of his life romancing the ocean. He harvests and dries seaweed and teaches the love and craft of husbanding the ocean’s gifts. He also teaches furniture making and body work. He takes apprentices and overnight guests stay free. He is as generous as the waves and open air.
You think you have a salt-free diet? Think again. Lots of foods have hidden salt. Some you may never suspect. For example: canned foods, processed lunch meats, corn flakes and other cold cereals, and vegetable juices. Sodium plays an important role in maintaining the body’s fluid balance. It’s essential for muscles and nerves to function properly. Natural sodium, found in celery, okra and goat whey, play an important part in calcium absorption. Table salt is a processed food that stresses the kidneys. Most of us consume too much of it. FDA guidelines call for less than 2,400 mg of sodium per day — about 1 teaspoon of table salt. Surprisingly, most of our salt intake doesn’t come from the salt shaker; it’s hidden in many of the foods we buy at the grocery store. If you crave salt and need it along with a healthy balance of other minerals, try eating some dried or cooked seaweeds–dulse, kelp, alaria, and nori, an excellent source of protein. If the oceans are the “blood” of the earth, seaweeds provide the minerals necessary for bones, hair, skin, and all cells.
This year’s cold and flu season threatens to outdo last year’s sore throat, cough, fever, and chronic asthma, which became so widespread we nicknamed it The Mother of All Colds. Now is the time to protect yourself and family from catching and spreading it. Psychic Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) and traditional Asian herbal doctors agree: Clean up your act by eliminating congestion and germs, and you are safer from colds and flu. Cayce recommended fasting, purging, and sweating treatments to reduce excess mucus and improve breathing and digestion. These may be weakening for people who are run-down, tired, and stressed. However a few adjustments in your diet and herbs can accomplish similar protection.
Do you live within an injury zone of a Nuclear Reactor? Fill in your zip code and find out. Fallout danger zones vary for each reactor and are the zones where injury or death are most likely to occur. The nuclear industry is proposing to build new reactors in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas & Virginia. They will pave the way for attempts to open up new locations for nuclear power plants in the future. According to Greenpeace, the new reactor models that the industry are considering are neither safe nor economically viable. Even if your area is not in the shadow of a nuclear power plant, you may face the threat from nuclear waste repository sites or nuclear waste transportation routes. Nuclear power plants may be cleaner than coal and oil, but there is nothing wrong with wind or solar power. Some say a good way to protect ourselves from radiation include kelp and other seaweeds and mushrooms like reishi. But they have to come from safe, clean sources.
I was reading one of my favorite nutritionists today, Dr. Bernard Jensen’s book Arthritis, Rheumatism and Osteoporosis: an effective program of correction through nutrition. He says people over age 50 feel joint pain worse because metabolism slows, which allows toxins to accumulate. I sure feel my joints in these rainy Vermont mountains no matter what my age. Joints ache with humidity or a passing storm when barometric pressure drops. I use homeopathic dulcamara 30C which I have nicknamed “pain in the rain.” But a deep-cleansing, rejuvenating approach does more than alleviate pain. Jensen’s holistic approach includes: speed metabolism and cleansing with kelp, a source of minerals especially iodine, to stimulate the thyroid, hawthorn to strengthen circulation, sufficient liquid intake (8 glasses) of water, KB-11 tea or juniper berry tea, a diuretic, to tone the kidneys, fresh fruits and vegetables for fiber, foods high in calcium, sodium and potassium to neutralize acids, and vitamin D (and ultraviolet rays) from sunshine to increase calcium absorption. Add to that daily exercise (he likes gentle circular movements of all joints), sweating to cleanse impurities; and an “active, satisfying sex life”–and you’ve got it all–a holistic approach for joint rejuvenation. Here’s tonight’s recipe.
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