Toms Blog on Life and Livingness
The apparent spread and prevalence of cancer is one of the more upsetting realities in modern health care and medicine. Although the western medical approach of using chemotherapy and radiation can often cause cancer to shrink and shift into remission, it’s far from one-hundred-percent effective … and it may wreak havoc with many other systems in the body. Could there be a more natural solution?
When you eat processed foods, you’re not only being exposed to unhealthy ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup and synthetic fats but also the additives used to create a uniform, shelf-stable product. Emulsifiers, including carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) and polysorbate 80 (P80), are among them, and research suggests they could be leading to inflammation, anxiety and depression in those who consume them.
If you’ve ever made salad dressing or mayonnaise at home, you’re probably aware that the ingredients naturally separate, as oil and water don’t mix. Yet, salad dressings and mayonnaise that’s store-bought stays mixed. This is due to emulsifiers, which blend otherwise unblendable ingredients while also reducing stickiness, controlling crystallization and preventing separation.1
Their benefit to the food industry is obvious, but once in your body they could be wreaking havoc on the microbes in your intestines, leading to metabolic problems and even affecting your brain.
Previous research has shown that adding the food emulsifiers CMC and P80 to the diet leads to low-grade inflammation, obesity and metabolic abnormalities in mice, while disturbing gut microbiota.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40 percent of children between the ages of 3 and 6 use potentially dangerous amounts of toothpasteThe CDC and American Dental Association (ADA) recommend using no more than a pea-sized amount for children in this age group, and those younger than 3 should use no more than the size of a rice grain on their toothbrushFluoride-containing toothpastes have a warning on their label stating that “If you accidentally…
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The following was written by someone promoting bone broth. But if you read my newsletters you will recall an article a week or so back talking about the promoted advantages of bone broth and how they do not appear to hold water. Nevertheless these points below are as valid as they could be. Instead of bone broth, to effect an improvement in you gut microbiome add organic vegetables and fruits, kambucha, fermented foods like sauerkraut etc.
Scientists are starting to call it an “organ” because it functions as one…
The human microbiome is a miraculous web of micro-organisms that live in harmony with us… In fact, they are so important to us that if they DIE…
We die.
And sadly, that’s exactly what’s happening because the modern Western diet is full of chemical foods that kill the good bacteria in our gut…
And encourage the bad ones to thrive.
The most recent research discovered just how important these invisible allies are to our health…
Cancer, Heart disease, Obesity, Crohn’s disease…
Diabetes, Autism, Leaky gut syndrome… Celiac, Auto-immune illness, Irritable Bowel Syndrome…
Even Skin Diseases, Allergies, Anxiety and Depression…
ALL are connected to the health of our gut bacteria.
But here’s the thing:
You can’t just pop a probiotic and fix anything because your gut microbiome is 100% unique to you…
As a matter of fact, the one thing you can get researchers agree on is this… When it comes to fixing your gut health…
Nothing has a bigger impact than…
FOOD.
What you do and don’t eat radically shifts the balance of gut microbes within 24 hours.
Forced Psychiatry Is Legislated Violence
I just signed the campaign: Royal Commission into Mental Health must not include McGorry
It would mean the world to me if you could also add your name to this important issue.
Every name that is added builds momentum around the campaign and makes it more likely for us to get the change we want to see.
Will you join me by taking action on this campaign?
https://www.communityrun.org/petitions/royal-commission-into-mental-health-must-not-include-mcgorry
After you’ve signed the petition please also take a moment to share it with others. It’s super easy – all you need to do is forward this email.
Thank you!
https://www.communityrun.org/petitions/royal-commission-into-mental-health-must-not-include-mcgorry
One single genetically modified ingredient is now considered responsible for up to 75% of adverse reactions to food additives, according to some reports.
This is a UK figure but our pollies are no better. Greens, Labor, Liberals and Nationals have been in power for too long. They have lowered this country to where it is today and they show no signs of repenting, self-correcting and letting up so we need to help them out of office and start the road to recovery by electing to parliament those who will represent the people rather than a party subservient to corporate and international interests.