Deep Nutrition – Catherine Shanahan MD, Luke Shanahan
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A self-published phenomenon examining the habits that kept our ancestors disease-free―now with a prescriptive plan for “The Human Diet” to help us all live long, vital, healthy lives.
Physician and biochemist Cate Shanahan, M.D. examined diets around the world known to help people live longer, healthier lives―diets like the Mediterranean, Okinawa, and “Blue Zone”―and identified the four common nutritional habits, developed over millennia, that unfailingly produce strong, healthy, intelligent children, and active, vital elders, generation after generation. These four nutritional strategies―fresh food, fermented and sprouted foods, meat cooked on the bone, and organ meats―form the basis of what Dr. Cate calls “The Human Diet.”
Rooted in her experience as an elite athlete who used traditional foods to cure her own debilitating injuries, and combining her research with the latest discoveries in the field of epigenetics, Dr. Cate shows how all calories are not created equal; food is information that directs our cellular growth. Our family history does not determine our destiny: what you eat and how you live can alter your DNA in ways that affect your health and the health of your future children.
Deep Nutrition offers a prescriptive plan for how anyone can begin eating The Human Diet to:
*Improve mood
*Eliminate cravings and the need to snack
*Boost fertility and have healthier children
*Sharpen cognition and memory
*Eliminate allergies and disease
*Build stronger bones and joints
*Get younger, smoother skin
Deep Nutrition cuts through today’s culture of conflicting nutritional ideologies, showing how the habits of our ancestors can help us lead longer, healthier, more vital lives.
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Naked Calories – Jayson Calton PhD, Mira Calton CN
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Naked Calories reveals the naked truth about what you are eating and how your lifestyle habits may unknowingly be sabotaging your health. The secret lies in micronutrients, vitamins and minerals that are being stripped from your diet and depleted by your lifestyle. On the Caltons’ six-year global research expedition they discovered that modern practices such as global food distribution, factory farming, and food processing are creating foods filled with Naked Calories–calories void of any real nutritional value. The dynamic authors break it down to a simple three-step plan and teach you how to source better foods, eliminate unhealthy habits, and make choosing the best supplement as easy as ABC. Naked Calories, this decade’s Fast Food Nation, will help millions of people gain a new depth of understanding about how to maintain health in the 21st century. The Caltons are among the world’s leading experts on the topics of weight management, lifestyle medicine and micronutrient deficiency. In 2005, they set sail on a 100-country, 7-continent, 6- year global expedition, exploring the dietary and lifestyle habits of people around the world. Their research has led them to conclude that micronutrient deficiency is the most widespread and dangerous health condition of the 21st century. As a couple they bring amazing energy, personal experience, passion and knowledge to an important subject people are just beginning to buzz about–the overwhelming health benefits of a micronutrient sufficient lifestyle.
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Eat the Yolks – Liz Wolfe NTP
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The Dark Side of Fat Loss – Sean Croxton
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If “Fat Loss” is so simple, then why is everyone still fat?
Recent studies show that 95% of dieters regain the weight they lost and more often than not end up heavier than when they started. What do the 5% who lose weight and keep it off know that the others don’t?
Find the answer in this book and a whole lot more including:
Chapter 1: Hold No Myths To Be True
In Chapter 1, you’ll learn about the incorrect “Calories in, Calories Out” paradigm, and why diet and exercise alone will NOT achieve your fat loss goals. You’ll learn how to completely avoid “battling the scale” and how the common mainstream solutions we attempt to use for fat loss not only defy reality & science, but also the laws of common sense.
Chapter 2: It’s All About The Hormones
In this chapter, you’ll learn the most important hormones for fat loss, and how they interact with each other and your body. By the time you’ve finished this chapter, you’ll have a strong understanding of how your hormones work, and how to manage them so that you can lose fat. You’ll also learn about the IGNORED master hormone and how to control it to keep your body a fat burning furnace, and not just plain old fat.
Chapter 3: Just Do What Healthy People Do
In this chapter, you’ll learn what true health REALLY is, and how to model your health after others who are truly healthy. By the end of this chapter, you’ll know how you can truly be free of the signs and symptoms of chronic, degenerative diseases while burning fat at the same time.
Chapter 4: Just Eat Real Food
In this chapter, you’ll learn what “real food” really is, and how to easily navigate through our confusing and often misleading modern food labeling system. You’ll learn the differences between grass fed, free range, conventional, organic, and natural food labels, and what they all mean. You’ll also learn about the wheel of life – and why you can NOT get healthy eating sick animals.
Chapter 5: The JERF30 Program
The JERF30 Program is a system of choosing real foods and listening to the signals your body gives you. Most diet programs think that everybody is the same. The JERF30 program does not make that assumption. Instead, you’ll learn how to listen to your body and know which foods are the healthiest and provide the biggest health benefits specifically for you. The 30 day Just Eat Real Food challenge provides you with a list of foods to choose from, as well as a system for translating your body’s messages into actionable information so that you can find the diet that is right for you.
Chapter 6: Reduce Stress
Is stress making you fat? In this chapter, you’ll learn the 5 sources of stress on the body, and how to mitigate them and how to lower stress in your life. The average American is incredibly stressed out, and this produces some pretty severe negative effects on your body – including increased fat storage, anxiety, and depression – all of which you will learn how to prevent in this chapter.
Chapter 7: Go To Bed
Is your lack of sleep killing you? Most Americans are dramatically sleep-deprived and just “live with it” – but did you know that just one night of missed sleep is sufficient to make you as insulin resistant as a diabetic? And, the center for disease control recently classified all-nighters as carcinogens? So lack of sleep will make you diabetic, cancerous, and inevitably, lead to an early death. In this chapter, you’ll learn how the advent of the light bulb has tricked your body into thinking it’s into a perpetual state of summer, and makes it constantly prepare for a winter famine by shifting your hormones to crave sugar and make your body store fat. By the end of this chapter, you’ll learn how to prevent this from happening and how to make sure your body is burning fat all year round.
Chapter 8: Heal Your Gut
Did you know that Americans spend over $1,300,000 a day just to poop? And that 1/3rd to ½ of all adult Americans have one or more digestive challenges? In this chapter, you’ll learn what these digestive challenges are, and how to overcome them without compromising your everyday life. You’ll learn about parasites, leaky gut, gluten sensitivities, and other important digestive issues that you need to be aware of if you want to have a fully functioning digestive system. If your digestive system is dysfunctional – then weight loss is nearly impossible – so this chapter is an essential read in your fat loss journey.
Chapter 9: Reduce Your Toxic Load
Did you know that we use 9 personal care products daily that contain around 126 chemical ingredients, and that 1/3rd of these ingredients have been identified as causing cancer or other serious health problems? In this chapter, you’ll learn about obesegens – chemicals that interfere with the normal function of the hormonal system and have been shown by research to cause weight gain. These are the very same obesegens that you’re likely rubbing all over your body every day, inhaling from toxic cleaning products, and drinking in non-filtered water. This chapter will show you how to identify, remove, and replace common toxins in your immediate environment, so that you can lower your toxic load and lose fat more easily.
Chapter 10: Get Your Mind Right
All of the information in this book is great, but if you don’t have the mindset to take action, then you’re wasting your own time. In this chapter, you’ll learn the 6 keys to a successful lifestyle change, and how you can emulate others’ success in revamping their health and overall well being.
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Grain Brain – David Perlmutter MD
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A #1 New York Times bestseller–the devastating truth about the effects of wheat, sugar, and carbs on the brain, with a 4-week plan to achieve optimum health.
Renowned neurologist David Perlmutter, MD, blows the lid off a topic that’s been buried in medical literature for far too long: carbs are destroying your brain. And not just unhealthy carbs, but even healthy ones like whole grains can cause dementia, ADHD, anxiety, chronic headaches, depression, and much more. Dr. Perlmutter explains what happens when the brain encounters common ingredients in your daily bread and fruit bowls, why your brain thrives on fat and cholesterol, and how you can spur the growth of new brain cells at any age. He offers an in-depth look at how we can take control of our “smart genes” through specific dietary choices and lifestyle habits, demonstrating how to remedy our most feared maladieswithout drugs. With a revolutionary 4-week plan, GRAIN BRAIN teaches us how we can reprogram our genetic destiny for the better.
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Cure Tooth Decay – Ramiel Nagel
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Forget about drilling, filling, and the inevitable billing. Your teeth can heal naturally because they were never designed to decay in the first place! They were designed to remain strong and healthy for your entire life. But the false promises of conventional dentistry have led us down the wrong path, leading to invasive surgical treatments that include fillings, crowns, root canals and dental implants.
Now there is a natural way to take control of your dental health by changing the food that you eat. Cure Tooth Decay is based upon the pioneering nutritional program of dentist Weston Price, former head of research at the National Dental Association. Dr. Price’s program proved to be 90-95% or more effective in remineralizing tooth cavities utilizing only nutritional improvements in the diet. Cure Tooth Decay is the result of five years of research and trial and error that started as one father’s journey to cure his daughter’s rapidly progressing tooth decay.
With Cure Tooth Decay you will join the thousands of people who have learned how to remineralize teeth, eliminate tooth pain or sensitivity, avoid root canals, stop cavities — sometimes instantaneously, regrow secondary dentin, form new tooth enamel, avoid or minimize gum loss, heal and repair tooth infections, only use dental treatments when medically necessary, save your mouth (and your pocketbook) from thousands of dollars of unneeded dental procedures, and increase your overall health and vitality.
Cure Tooth Decay provides you with clear and easy to understand dental facts to help you make healthy, life-affirming choices about your dental health. It is about healing cavities without dental surgery or fluoride.
Cure Tooth Decay highlights include:
- conventional dentistry’s losing war against bacteria,
- why people fear the dentist and what you can do about it,
- a cavity-healing program that is easy to follow,
- the cause of dental plaque and an amazing technique to reverse gum disease,
- understanding ideal jaw position and TMJ dysfunction,
- x-ray proof that cavities can heal,
- how to heal children’s cavities and find peace,
- why women get cavities during pregnancy and how to stop it, and so much more.
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Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye – Ellie Phillips
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You brush, floss, use mouthwashes, and are concerned about the foods you eat, yet you still require fillings or lengthy cleanings at the dentist. In Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye, Dr. Ellie Phillips teaches how anyone can achieve and maintain a truly healthy mouth. Empower yourself as you improve the look and feel of your teeth between dental visits. Your dentist will be amazed at the changes he sees, and you will be thrilled as cavities and gum disease become a thing of the past. Traditional dentistry cannot prevent dental disease. But Ellie’s do-it-yourself daily routine can. Discover how easy it is to reduce plaque buildup, strengthen tooth enamel, repair small cavities, eliminate tooth sensitivity, and improve your overall oral health. Learn about products that hinder your efforts and the risks of bleaching, dental sealants and the wrong use of fluoride. It is time to achieve healthy, clean teeth and gums and wow your dentist at the next appointment.
Praise for Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye:
”An excellent, simplified discussion of complex issues you need to understand to achieve optimal oral health.”
–Richard Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS, 17th surgeon general of the United States
”This book, despite its intriguing title, does not denigrate dentists. What it really does is tell readers how best to work with dentists to achieve true preventative care.”
–Milton B. Lederman, PhD, retired director of public aff airs, University of Rochester Medical Center; co-author of Co-existing with Cancer
”As a dentist, the title of this book is shocking! But the information in the book is vital to anyone who wants to minimize dental problems, maximize dental health, and enjoy their smile for a lifetime.”
–Corky Willhite, DDS; fellow, American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry
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“The biology of pain is never really straightforward, even when it appears to be.”
— Lorimer Moseley, PhD FACP
I started to experience chronic pain in my lower back in my mid-20s. This was when I began working full-time in IT support and the desk job meant a lot more sitting compared to my previous teaching position.
Was my back pain caused by a change in my daily posture? No. But it was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. Meaning the highly inflammatory lifestyle I was living was the actual underlying cause of the pain, but the change in job and how I moved pushed my back over the edge into the pain-zone.
After learning about inflammation and learning how to reduce it through lifestyle changes my back pain dissappeared.
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Back pain is one of the leading causes of disability and about 80% of people will experience some form of back pain during their lifetime. Whether it’s acute, lasting less than six weeks, or chronic with some people living with it for years, back pain will negatively impact your ability to work, to play, and to function in society, i.e. have fun and enjoy life.
Well-known causes for back pain include:
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Poor posture
- Repetitive movement
- Faulty movement pattern
- Injury
What I’ll be exploring here are some unfamiliar causes for back pain all relating to your mouth.
But before I get into the connection between your mouth and your back health I’ll talk little bit about pain in general.
Pain is your body’s way of communicating to you that something is malfunctioning and needs your attention. This pain and malfunction is a result of inflammation caused by some type of stressor. This stress could be physical, mental/emotional, or biochemical/physiological. Whatever the stress, the area it manifests in your body will become inflamed and this activates your immune system where it will begin to eliminate foreign material and infections, as well as clean up and repair old and damaged tissue.
If this stress becomes chronic the inflamed organs, gland, or tissue will never have a chance to heal, causing you to experience chronic pain.
How Your Mouth Contributes to Back Pain
One way your mouth can contribute to back pain is with the foods you eat. By eating a pro-inflammatory diet which causes stress in your gastrointestinal tract. This stress causes gut irritation and gut inflammation. How does this relate to back pain?
Your organs and muscles share the same pain nerve fibres. Your heart for example shares these fibres with your arms, which is why you’ll experience pain, numbing, and tingling in your arms during a heart attack. Your stomach, liver, small intestines, and colon innervate with your abdominal and back muscles. If you experience a lot of gas, bloating, and abdominal distension, these are symptoms that your digestive organs are stressed and inflamed and this can cause back pain due to the firing of pain nerve fibres connecting these organs to your back muscles.
Another way your mouth can cause back pain comes down to dental health. The health of your teeth has a massive impact on the health of the rest of your body as your teeth are directly linked to all your major organs by way of acupuncture meridians. Meridians are energy channels or pathways in which energy flows. Each of your organs, glands, and tissues connect to specific meridians. Many of these meridians end in teeth, therefore connecting specific organs to each tooth.
If you have swollen gums, tooth decay, mercury or inorganic fillings, incorrectly fitted orthodontics, root canals, malocclusion, or missing teeth, this will cause a disruption or blockage in your meridians, causing malfunction and problems with the organ(s) connected to that meridian. When the meridians connected to your gut are disrupted due to poor dental health, this can potentially cause gut inflammation and back pain.
You can find a meridian tooth chart at Ora Wellness mapping out teeth with their related meridians and organs.
Last thing I’ll mention regarding your mouth and back pain is how you’re breathing.
Chronic mouth breathing, particularly inhaling through the mouth, can activate the sympathetic nervous system, turning on your body’s stress response. The stress response creates a hormonal cascade where anabolic/growth and repair hormones are suppressed due to the high amounts of catabolic/breaking down and stress hormones circulating in your body. This isn’t an issue if the stress is acute and short-lived, but if the stress is ongoing this chronic catabolic state will increase inflammation and reduce healing of your gut, and healing of your back muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
The more stressed and catabolic and inflamed your body becomes, the longer your back pain will persist.
Your Mouth and Healing Back Pain
Healing back pain takes a holistic approach. Standard ways to heal from back pain include moving and stretching your body, and visiting a chiropractor or acupuncturist or physiotherapist or all of the above.
Here I share three mouth-related ways to reduce inflammation and increase meridian flow, and when integrated with other healing modalities your back pain will reduce significantly and potentially disappear.
1. Eat an Anti-Inflammatory Diet
By eating less pro-inflammatory foods that trigger gut irritation and inflammation you reduce your chances of getting gas, bloating, distension, abdominal cramps, and back pain.
An anti-inflammatory diet consists of whole real foods from plant and animal sources. This means local organically grown vegetables and fruit, and meat from animals raised in their natural habitat eating their natural diet.
More importantly an anti-inflammatory diet removes industrial seed oils and processed and refined sugars and grains, which are two of the most inflammatory and acidic foods in existence.
Two real food diet books I highly recommend are Practical Paleo by Diane Sanfilippo and Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig.
2. Detoxify Your Teeth
Use non-toxic sulfate-free and fluoride-free organic oral care products and stop using anti-microbial mouth washes like Listerine as these upset the good-to-bad ratio of microorganisms in your mouth.
Remove any metal and inorganic fillings you might have. When it comes to replacing mercury or silver fillings be sure to find a holistic biological dentist. If mercury fillings are not removed properly you could find yourself getting a toxic load of mercury in your system creating more health problems.
A root canal is a cesspool of pathogenic microorganisms and their toxic byproducts. If you have a root canal it might pay to get yours looked at by a holistic biological dentist.
To find a holistic biological dentist visit the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology website as well as the Mercury Safe Dentists website.
3. Breathe diaphragmatic belly breaths through your nose
Your nose has parasympathetic nerve endings that are stimulated every time you inhale. By inhaling through your nose you activate the parasympathetic nervous system which puts you in a calm, connect, rest, and digest state.
Each time you expand and contract your diaphragm and belly you are giving your internal organs (including your gut) a nice little massage improving blood and lymph flow, which helps with nutrient absorption and waste removal.
Belly and nose breathing puts your body into an non-stressed anabolic state of growth and repair, reducing inflammation and pain in your back.
Summary
It is true that back pain can be a symptom of physical/biomechanical damage and injury to your back muscles, tendons, ligaments, and lumbar spine.
However, it is also true that back pain can come from physiological/biochemical stress due to poor diet, poor dental health, and incorrect breathing patterns. By eating real food, removing toxins from your mouth, and breathing correctly, you will reduce the amount of stress and inflammation contributing to your back pain.