Gabriel, I am grateful to have come across your work. Thank you for what you are doing to help folks maintain their freedom! I am on my own health journey so I wanted to share with you someone who has been of great help to me in improving my health. Dr. Peter Osborne wrote a book called No Grain, No Pain that helped me a lot in the beginning. I ended up working with him to learn about the foods to which I have intolerances and the resulting nutrient deficiencies that were hampering my health. During the journey I lost 65 pounds of inflammation, regained mental clarity, and lost most of the daily aches and pains to which I had become accustomed over the years. You don't even have to buy the book: it is all laid out in hundreds of YouTube videos that you can access for free. Then if you feel like his approach is helping, you can get in touch for a consultation to go forward. I hope this is helpful to you. Once again, thank you for your tenacity to continue this work and your commitment to helping folks navigate their way through these crazy times.
Love this! In contrast to what you are reading, my research says that we have no need of fiber. I went zero fiber (carnivore) for a whole year and did very well, before adding very small amounts of fiber exclusively in the form of fermented fruits and vegetables. My mentor, Dr. Sean O'Mara, calls this the Living Carnivore Diet. Since adding ferments to carnivore, my digestive health seems greatly improved. Dr. Sean O'Mara says that visceral fat is the most important biomarker and the one we should be targeting. He highly recommends we get a baseline abdominal MRI. He emphasizes how some fat is particularly damaging to us, because it secretes inflammatory cytokines, while other fat does not. Lots to learn on this journey. And it takes time. You are in my prayers. I've learned I can do things I thought I was incapable of. That's given me strength. I've learned I can fast, for example. Never missed a meal for my first 60+ years, and now I'm 73 hours fasted, feeling great, not really hungry, planning to go 90+ hours this week. Would never have expected I could do this and feel this way. Push forward!
P.S. Optimizing microbiome health is key to all of it. While bad microbes make us crave bad foods, a healthy microbiome makes us want good foods. Besides fermented fruits and vegetables, animal ferments like cheeses and kefir are very powerful. He recommends chewing them in to one's meat, to help them pass through the stomach. Small quantities: "a garnish, not side dish".
Cucumbers are fruit! So naturally fermented pickles (e.g. Bubbies) are actually fermented fruit. There is so much to leaen.! Loved the audio. Learned a lot.
Don't be eating stuff in stone... it breaks your teeth. ;) haw haw
APPLES are very healing and good for you. And I love fermented veggies, too!
Try raw veggies... like cabbage and carrots and cauliflower... you can make chopped
salads of these things, experiment... if you like mayo, I do, use GOOD mayo, made with avocado oil, or olive, coconut or walnut oil... stay away from the JUNK oils, they're horrible-- did I say this to you already? Well, sunflower, safflower, SOYBEAN oil... these are rot, and often GMO... And you can make your own fermented foods, too! This sounds horrible and crazy, probably, but I take about a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar every morning! Good stuff, but woah, takes some GUTS, lol.
Sorry, I keep lecturing you. Don't mean to, I just get really INTO food, being a long-time cook (and eater!), and I want to study to be a Naturopathic Nutritionist... I love to eat, and I love the idea of cures with food. ^_^
That's probably why they're often salted... so you keep eating them!
But good fiber is good, in my view, and fermented veggies are the best. You have to shop smart, tho, as things like canned sauerkraut sitting on a shelf is just not gonna be much good at all. Sourdough bread if you eat bread, and I try to keep grains to a very dull roar. But plenty of fresh veggies, RAW is best... Eat like your great grandparents ate, that's my rule of thumb... And maybe like our ancestors ate, waaaaay back. Foragers and hunters... get together and chow down. ;)
Gabriel, I am grateful to have come across your work. Thank you for what you are doing to help folks maintain their freedom! I am on my own health journey so I wanted to share with you someone who has been of great help to me in improving my health. Dr. Peter Osborne wrote a book called No Grain, No Pain that helped me a lot in the beginning. I ended up working with him to learn about the foods to which I have intolerances and the resulting nutrient deficiencies that were hampering my health. During the journey I lost 65 pounds of inflammation, regained mental clarity, and lost most of the daily aches and pains to which I had become accustomed over the years. You don't even have to buy the book: it is all laid out in hundreds of YouTube videos that you can access for free. Then if you feel like his approach is helping, you can get in touch for a consultation to go forward. I hope this is helpful to you. Once again, thank you for your tenacity to continue this work and your commitment to helping folks navigate their way through these crazy times.
Love this! In contrast to what you are reading, my research says that we have no need of fiber. I went zero fiber (carnivore) for a whole year and did very well, before adding very small amounts of fiber exclusively in the form of fermented fruits and vegetables. My mentor, Dr. Sean O'Mara, calls this the Living Carnivore Diet. Since adding ferments to carnivore, my digestive health seems greatly improved. Dr. Sean O'Mara says that visceral fat is the most important biomarker and the one we should be targeting. He highly recommends we get a baseline abdominal MRI. He emphasizes how some fat is particularly damaging to us, because it secretes inflammatory cytokines, while other fat does not. Lots to learn on this journey. And it takes time. You are in my prayers. I've learned I can do things I thought I was incapable of. That's given me strength. I've learned I can fast, for example. Never missed a meal for my first 60+ years, and now I'm 73 hours fasted, feeling great, not really hungry, planning to go 90+ hours this week. Would never have expected I could do this and feel this way. Push forward!
P.S. Optimizing microbiome health is key to all of it. While bad microbes make us crave bad foods, a healthy microbiome makes us want good foods. Besides fermented fruits and vegetables, animal ferments like cheeses and kefir are very powerful. He recommends chewing them in to one's meat, to help them pass through the stomach. Small quantities: "a garnish, not side dish".
I've vastly underestimated your age 😅
I'll have to look into fermented fruits, that's something new to my radar.
Definitely lots to learn on the journey so I don't have anything set in stone. (yet)
Cucumbers are fruit! So naturally fermented pickles (e.g. Bubbies) are actually fermented fruit. There is so much to leaen.! Loved the audio. Learned a lot.
Hi, Gabriel! ^_^
Don't be eating stuff in stone... it breaks your teeth. ;) haw haw
APPLES are very healing and good for you. And I love fermented veggies, too!
Try raw veggies... like cabbage and carrots and cauliflower... you can make chopped
salads of these things, experiment... if you like mayo, I do, use GOOD mayo, made with avocado oil, or olive, coconut or walnut oil... stay away from the JUNK oils, they're horrible-- did I say this to you already? Well, sunflower, safflower, SOYBEAN oil... these are rot, and often GMO... And you can make your own fermented foods, too! This sounds horrible and crazy, probably, but I take about a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar every morning! Good stuff, but woah, takes some GUTS, lol.
Sorry, I keep lecturing you. Don't mean to, I just get really INTO food, being a long-time cook (and eater!), and I want to study to be a Naturopathic Nutritionist... I love to eat, and I love the idea of cures with food. ^_^
Same goes for nuts... a garnish.
That's probably why they're often salted... so you keep eating them!
But good fiber is good, in my view, and fermented veggies are the best. You have to shop smart, tho, as things like canned sauerkraut sitting on a shelf is just not gonna be much good at all. Sourdough bread if you eat bread, and I try to keep grains to a very dull roar. But plenty of fresh veggies, RAW is best... Eat like your great grandparents ate, that's my rule of thumb... And maybe like our ancestors ate, waaaaay back. Foragers and hunters... get together and chow down. ;)