I like a big salad, with lots of tiny bits. The more variety I can get on each fork-sized mouthful, the better. The more I eat salad, the better I feel. But I need variety!
Today's salad is the 2nd half of the mixed baby lettuce tub from yesterday's salad, with pineapple, mushroom, gala apple, almond slivers and a variety of poppy seed dressing.
It's not all organic, because I am using up food spaceman's mother sent home with us. But usually, I vote with my fork and either:
A) grow my own organics, or
B) buy organics
Growing my own is better. Have you ever compared the taste of an organic store bought tomato to the one you grew in your own backyard? Trust me, there is no comparison!
Right now we have no produce producing. And with the extended winter this year, my little early spring garden, even while protected with a hoop house, has failed all but the garlic. I'll have to plant again.
I'm not sure if it was just the extended cold or also the learning curve of growing under a hoop house. There's always something to learn! I'm in year 7 of gardening and I'm still failing at things!
That's just the nature of... well, nature.
But a salad every day for lunch... that's my current M.O. Breakfast is usually either an chocolate almond fruit smoothie (cherries, blueberries, or strawberries) or eggs and avocado sprinkled with Braggs Herb Sprinkle. Dinner is something spaceman cooks up, usually from scratch - and lately - vegetarian.
I don't eat horribly. But what I am learning is that no matter how "great" one tries to eat these days, it will not likely be enough to obtain the minerals your body needs because the soil is tainted. The soil is deprived of nutrition itself.
I grow organically, but what if my neighbors spray their lawns? What can I do about it? Zilch.
I grow organically, in raised beds (we raised the large garden, too, for the most part last fall). I even collect rain water to water with, but what can I do about the chemtrails poisoning the rainwater? Zilch.
Look at it for the mass majority of people: Fluoride binds to magnesium, making it bio-unavailable. Weed killers contain fluoride. Your city water more than likely contains fluoride. (Your toothpaste probably does, too, for that matter.) In the case of conventional single crop mass agriculture being sprayed with herbicides and pesticides, year after year, not only does the plant contain the chemicals themselves, the soil has very little magnesium not bound up with fluoride. So, food grown today has far less nutrition than food your parents or grandparents ate growing up.
It's no longer feasible to tell someone to "just eat healthier" and for them to actually obtain the nutrition their body is desperately needing.
Of course, eating well does help. It's just not enough.
As a society, we are in that place where the cycle is so complete with being poisoned on so many fronts that it's truly really difficult to be healthy.
When we're young our bodies are much more resilient, but our children are also being assaulted on levels we never experienced at their ages.
It's enough to make a person want to pack up and move OFF GRID somewhere remote. But they're making that illegal in more and more places, too!
In any case, how many of us are not enslaved to our debt, making that a pipe dream anyway? And as long as we are too busy working to pay our bills, we can't even find time or risk being arrested if we want to join a protest.
We are being assaulted on so many fronts. Why? Are politicians who make city ordinances to fluoridate water, to outlaw camping on your own land, to fine you for growing food on your front lawn... are these the people we should blame? Maybe. Maybe not. It's never as simple as some like to boil it down to.
The question remains... why all this oppression in the world?
I have suspicions, but what do you think?
Tuesday, April 03, 2018
Sunday, April 01, 2018
Rampage of Joy
My morning routine is to drink my minerals in 16 oz's of water with a pinch of sea salt, and it's the same as my evening routine. In between that, I have 2-3 more bottles of water with that sea salt pinch.
Minerals sure, but why sea salt, too? More trace minerals. It's really as simple as that. Sea salt, unlike chemically manufactured table salt, has 50-70+ trace minerals and that's what I'm after, certainly not the sodium. Like I said, I recently discovered my body was saturated with sodium to the point of chronic heart palpitations and other disconcerting symptoms.
It turns out, my body was craving recovery and as soon as I stopped the offending relief treatments for my constipation, my sodium levels went down fast. Within a week, palpitations were fewer and further between. And in 2 weeks, I wasn't having them at all. This meant I could safely include the sea salt in my my new minerals routine.
I'm taking the most highly absorbent form of magnesium on the market, a pico-ionic sized form that readily absorbs before it can cause any loose bowels. I did that for over a week, mixing it in my water twice daily. This week, I added a second 9-mineral formula, also pico-ionic in size, and thus highly absorbent, that mainly supports healthy thyroid function.
I am still taking some cheap, meaning non-highly absorbent form, of magnesium to ensure my bowels do move. The better quality magnesium won't cause that because it's too bio-available to the body, and... I do need my bowels to move.
But even that has become easier. This regimen is doing my body wonders. I am taking less and less of the crappier form of magnesium as my intestines have begun working things through better. It's truly amazing. It's still ups and downs by the day sometimes, but I have a good set of practices and medicine (minerals) to restoke the fires of hundreds of bodily functions that have gone dormant through the years from lack of necessary ingredients: minerals.
It's boring stuff to write about. But it's just amazing to me that I can even write about having such successes. My intestines are contracting of their own free will! lol To me, this is the bees knees! I've been suffering since 2005! That's 13 years! I can't remember what it feels like to be healthy. Even before that I wasn't healthy (makes sense right?). Before that it was a pendulum that swang in the equal but opposite direction - and a family-wide issue. Only at some point my body had enough and something SWITCHED into the opposite of issues. Within the course of 3 weeks, I slowly (pun intended) realized I had a serious problem.
No doctor has ever been able to tell me what's wrong with me or even provide any solutions. "It's stress" my gastroenterologist used to tell me. I would just look at her like, you've got to be kidding me. *eye roll* For a while she gave me some prescription to help keep my pipes flowing... later it was pulled off the market for some reason.
One way or another I have been suffering through the last 13 years just to eliminate the food I must eat to continue living. And now... now I have real progress along that journey. Everything I'm doing is working in unison and I feel sooo much better.
Okay, rampage of joy going offline... Have a wonderful Easter. <3
Minerals sure, but why sea salt, too? More trace minerals. It's really as simple as that. Sea salt, unlike chemically manufactured table salt, has 50-70+ trace minerals and that's what I'm after, certainly not the sodium. Like I said, I recently discovered my body was saturated with sodium to the point of chronic heart palpitations and other disconcerting symptoms.
It turns out, my body was craving recovery and as soon as I stopped the offending relief treatments for my constipation, my sodium levels went down fast. Within a week, palpitations were fewer and further between. And in 2 weeks, I wasn't having them at all. This meant I could safely include the sea salt in my my new minerals routine.
I'm taking the most highly absorbent form of magnesium on the market, a pico-ionic sized form that readily absorbs before it can cause any loose bowels. I did that for over a week, mixing it in my water twice daily. This week, I added a second 9-mineral formula, also pico-ionic in size, and thus highly absorbent, that mainly supports healthy thyroid function.
I am still taking some cheap, meaning non-highly absorbent form, of magnesium to ensure my bowels do move. The better quality magnesium won't cause that because it's too bio-available to the body, and... I do need my bowels to move.
But even that has become easier. This regimen is doing my body wonders. I am taking less and less of the crappier form of magnesium as my intestines have begun working things through better. It's truly amazing. It's still ups and downs by the day sometimes, but I have a good set of practices and medicine (minerals) to restoke the fires of hundreds of bodily functions that have gone dormant through the years from lack of necessary ingredients: minerals.
It's boring stuff to write about. But it's just amazing to me that I can even write about having such successes. My intestines are contracting of their own free will! lol To me, this is the bees knees! I've been suffering since 2005! That's 13 years! I can't remember what it feels like to be healthy. Even before that I wasn't healthy (makes sense right?). Before that it was a pendulum that swang in the equal but opposite direction - and a family-wide issue. Only at some point my body had enough and something SWITCHED into the opposite of issues. Within the course of 3 weeks, I slowly (pun intended) realized I had a serious problem.
No doctor has ever been able to tell me what's wrong with me or even provide any solutions. "It's stress" my gastroenterologist used to tell me. I would just look at her like, you've got to be kidding me. *eye roll* For a while she gave me some prescription to help keep my pipes flowing... later it was pulled off the market for some reason.
One way or another I have been suffering through the last 13 years just to eliminate the food I must eat to continue living. And now... now I have real progress along that journey. Everything I'm doing is working in unison and I feel sooo much better.
Okay, rampage of joy going offline... Have a wonderful Easter. <3
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