Relearning old wisdom

Learning how to fight common diseases like colds and viruses is difficult, especially with so little wisdom still known. Yes, our society had majority "dumbded down" about simple healthcare over the last 2 to 3 generations and much wisdom has been lost. I remember a day when drs actually knew how to help s patient fight something without medicine. Today, drs are little more than pharmaceutical salesmen, matching a list of symptoms to medicine. It had been sad to watch the change.

There is huge advantage to relearning the old ways and wisdom, and with the internet and Facebook it is possible. Off in corners of the world are people that still know and are sharing wisdom that works. This wisdom strengthens there body with each attack instead of weakening it. In my case, I have gone from sick for a coupler weeks every month or two to sick for a day or two once out  twice a year. Sickness isn't nearly as deep nor as long. Is wonderful!

But how tempting it is in the thick of pain and suffering to just reach for that pill! Instant relief! But... It's all an illusion. Pulls do not remove the problem as much as hide symptoms. The symptoms are your body fighting the disease. So the pills largely stop your body's defenses! Anti biotics are s little different, but even they damage your immune system with each use. Making you more and more susceptible to disease.

Do yourself a favor, opt out of the crazy downward spiral of health caused by modern medicine. For major things... That's different. But for common ailments turn to the wisdom of old where health was a process, not a pill.

The more you invest, the bigger the return

When investing money,  the principle is obvious. "the more you invest,  the bigger your potential return".  This is a universal concept. It's not just money though,  this also works with your health.

We have met two different mindsets concerning health:

1. Those that ask how much do I need to do in order to see benefit?

2. Those that ask what all can I do that might help?

Those in #1 rarely see benefit through diet and lifestyle changes,  and end up criticising the ability for these to work.  They become the numbers who say "it doesn't work enough to be worth while".  Why?  They have invested so little that the potential return is tiny.

Those in #2 see huge benefit.  While they might "do more than necessary",  they achieve the results desired and live healthy without pharmaceuticals.  They become the poster child of natural health.

Why the difference?  It's all in the principal. If you only do what you think you must,  you will fail to see much. Holding back,  holds you back.  How would a doctor respond if you negotiated which parts of his cancer treatment plan you participated in?  "I really only want the chemo twice,  no more,  it's just too much".  What would he say?  And yet we do just that about natural healing constantly.  "do I really need to eat o ly organic in everything,  all the time?".  If you need to ask that,  don't bother.  It won't work for you with that small of investment.
Oddly,  this same principal is what prevents most "studies"  from showing benefit.  These studies,  by design,  usually only study individual changes.  They see small benefit if any,  because individual changes are pointless by the principal.  If you attempt to cure the flu by taking one herb, yo7 will fail.  The study that tries to prove effectiveness will fail.  Because herbs are not chemicals designed to bring an instant relief of symptoms,  herbs heal.  But only in combination with large investments in healthy choices.

I can assure you personally that it is possible to cure most modern degenerative diseases,  simply through 4 basic nutrition / life / environment principles.  We have done it.  Our family of now 6 has gone from monthly Dr visits with long deep down times for sickness,  to no Dr visits necessary in over 2 years.  Many many ailments are j7st gone on their own.  Herbs now heal effectively where 5 years ago they had no effect.  The list of benefits is astounding,  and it is reproducible in others and holds true over time.

But the key is....  Large investments.  It's truly all or nothing.  If your not willing to do everything possible to make health self supporting,  you simply won't be able to.  We have,  we jumped in with both feet.  When we started,  we went through the kitchen and removed everything that came in a box,  bags bottle,  can.  Gone all at once.  Then we learned to cook. We replaced all normal drinks with water and fermented drinks only.   We replaced all fruits and vegetables with ligands,  all meats with our own heritage,  soy free,  pastured,  organic non processed,  antibiotic free meats.  We filled our medicine cabinet with detoxing vitamins,  minerals,  and herbs.  We threw out all wheat and sugar,  and any product that contains either.  We only ate vegetables fresh or fermented,  never preserved without bacteria.  All dairy was based on our own raw goat dairy.  We threw away all personal care products like soap,  shampoo,  toothpaste,  creams,  gels,  sprays,  etc.  We removed any materials from the house that would off gas (had a smell)  from man made compounds.  Wev threw away all pharmaceuticals and medicinal chemicals,  gels,  sprays,  and etc.  We stopped all alcohol,  all caffeine.  We poured out all vegetable oils,  replaced with good organic well fed animal fats and coconut oil.
We made sure all spices and herbs were organic or beyond organic. We started regular detox baths and treatments.

All that and more,  it was a complete life change.  But it worked better than we could have ever expected.  We as a family are alive again,  healthy,  cured of things that Dr say you can't be cured of.  Life is good.

So please,  save yourself,  save your children (born or not yet born).  Reject modern wisdom and return to God's ways.  They work.  But only if your fully committed.  Don't pray for health,  or deliverance from disease caused by our own actions. Life right,  and God will provide the healing,  usually through the processes he already put into place for us.  He designed our world,  our lives,  our bodies to be long and healthy.  The choice is ours.

The basics of nutrition

Forget the "food pyramid"  and "the four food groups".  It is all misguided understandings or outright lies.  It will kill you.

This is the basic truth about nutrition:

1. Saturated fats are good,  necessary,  and should be our primary fuel source.  Mostly animal fat.  This is not only the best fuel for our bodies,  able to be utilized as a nice slow burn,  slow release of energy that lasts for consistent energy levels.  But also the cholesterol inside is vital to our health,  required by healing and brain support.  Low cholesterol,  low fat diets are hugely damaging to the body.

2. Probiotics are necessary on a steady,  daily basis.  Bacteria and such are responsible for our health,  our moods,  our future.  Sterile is not a state of nature,  it is death.  Bacteria are all about balance.  The traditional diet of health involves preserving foods thorough fermentation,  not refrigeration.  Fermentation provides billions of different bacteria and yeasts to support health.  We vitally need these probiotics daily to maintain a healthy balance and avoid disease.

3. Low carbs.  Carbs or flash energy,  like throwing gasoline on a fire.  It is so dangerous in the body that God gave us a builtin control mechanism....  Insulin.  Without insulin,  carbs would kill us quickly.  It is the constant consumption of carbs that  are at the root of most
health issues.  Modern thought has replaced fat with carbs as an energy source,  and that is the start of death and suffering.  Carbs are to be consumed in moderation,  infrequently.

4. Minerals are necessary but nonexistent. Our modern soils have little to no minerals.  Plants therefor contain none. Without minerals our bodies don't work right.  There is a list of these that must be supplemented or disease occurs.  The easiest ways to supplement minerals is through bone broth,  sea algea,  and true unrefined sea salt.  Some,  like iodine,  are necessary at much higher concentrations than even these sources allow. 

5. The source of any of this is critical.  For meats and fats and broths,  it must come from heritage breed,  pasture raised,  organically and nongmo fed animals.  Any other source is so full of toxins that it becomes a negative instead of a positive.  Know your farmer,  buy local.  With vegetables,  the same  applies.  Organic,  from a knowledgeable local farmer.   Source is everything.

6. Cook from scratch.  Foods must be properly prepared.  Anything that comes in a box,  can,  or jar is suspect.  Preprocessor,  prepackaged foods are death. Cook from scratch,  with good sourced ingredients. 

7. Eat what is in season.  Don't try to change God's plan for nutrition by refrigeration and overseas shipping.  Eat what is local in season,  and ferment to eat when none is in season.  Meat serves as a good winter source,  vegetables the summer source.  Follow nature,  don't fight it.

These rules will start you down the path to health.  There is much to learn from the past.  Seek it out. 

The basics of health

Health is one of the most important aspects of life,  right up there with efficient time use.  If health starts to fail,  our life is less enjoyable and less productive.  So where does good health start?  With some basic understandings:

1. Man was made to enjoy good health.  Believing God is the creator gives us a mindset that says "'man started off perfect by design".  Evolution teaches the opposite,  that man today is the end result of millions of years of improvement.  There was no design,  no purpose.  That is all a lie.  Man started perfect,  our bodies designed to life forever.  But due to sin,  forever became a thousand years,  the due to more sin,  about a hundred years.  But the design never changed. 

2. Modern medicine is designed to hide symptoms,  not cure root problems.   Therefore modern medicine does not heal,  but mask problems.  If root issues heal,  it is in spit of medical treatment,  not because of it.

3. Prevention is always easier than cure.

4. Modern science know little to nothing about prevention.  Becasue of #2, modern science has shifted focus and even the understanding of disease is superficial or even wrong.

5. Good Health is measured by the absence of need for medical attention.  The more frequent and/or severe medical need is,  including consuming medicine,  the lower health is.  In America we have a healthcare crisis only because of a health crisis.  America is dying, we spend more on healthcare than any other nation,  we suffer from more lifestyle based disease,  and require more medical assistance than any.
6. How you approach healthcare determines how healthy you will be.  Trusting in "the system",  "the training",  "the common knowledge"  leaves one dependent on those things.  Each intervention insures further intervention.  It is a vicious cycle, spiraling into a dependent life of suffering.  For example,  each medicine causes side effects requiring more medicine. 

7. Because of #1, traditional age old wisdom brings best health.  Modern man has no monopoly on wisdom.  For thousands of years man has existed and prospered.  Only in the last hundred years or so has health deteriorated so badly.  Look to the past to understand what we have lost.

8. Health starts with nutrition,  and environment.  The good things we consume as food nourish all the system, s God put in place to keep us healthy. Toxins in our environment do the opposite,  they weaken those same systems and tax them health is a balancing act between consumer, ING what we need and avoiding what will harm us.

9. Genetically are at the heart of every disease and no disease.  Our level of health,  susceptibility  to all diseases,  is determined by our genetics.  But very few diseases if any are genetics alone.  Genes are affected by nutrition and toxins,  they switch on and off throughout life.  They set a starting point,  not an end point.

10. Health is a gift from God.  He designed it,  and he can change it.  B7t he works normally within the rules he laid out.  If you eat potato chips every day,  you will have health issues.  Praying to God for healing while planning on continuing to consume potato chips every day is a slap in his face.  It is a repeat of original sin.  I5 is saying "I want to choose,  you need to change the creation to accommodate my personal desires".  He rarely does that.  First do all that we can to return to his design,  then pray for his help to overcome the rest of the problem.  He might,  or might not.  We will all die some day of something.  But never ask for health while doing what causes the problem to begin with.  That is disrespectful to God himself.

11. Children suffer from the actions of parents.  This is God's design.  We leave to our children a better or worse world,  directly affecting them.  It is our right to harm or help them.  Many health problems today are occurring at younger and younger ages.  Things that used to be only old people diseases are already down to prevent teen children commonly.  It is sad,  but within your ability to change for your offspring.  Start today,  clean up your life,  and your children will benefit.  Ignore this,  and you will see them suffer.

This list sets a mindset,  a way of thinking.  More details on specifics in coming posts.

The health care crisis

One of the biggest problems facing America today is the health care crisis,  meaning the high cost of healthcare,  insurance,  and the universal need for insurance. I have seen lots of "debates"  about cause,  needs,  fixes,  etc....  But all are missing the most important and most fundamental point.  It's really very simple,  but people just don't think today!

Why is there a healthcare crisis?  One simple answer,  there is a steeply rising need for healthcare,  because America is sick and getting sicker.  Think about this...  If people didn't need healthcare,  there would not be a crisis!  If people were healthy,  they would not need healthcare!

But you answer "wait,  everyone needs healthcare"  and I say "exactly my point".  There is an assumption that people are supposed to be,  or normally,  in need of healthcare because sick is normal!  Hogwash.  If that was true humans would have never made it for thousands of years with virtually no healthcare (by today's standards). 

There are two disturbing trends not being talked about...

1) the falling average age that particular ailments affect people compared to decades ago

2) the rising rate of certain ailments affecting only the young

During my own lifetime I have seen both of these astronomically increase.  Diseases that in my childhood were "old person diseases" are now rampant among the young,  the age of diagnosis falling every decade.  Diabetes and cancer are examples of this.  They used to almost never affect people under 50. 20 years ago it was noticed among my peers,  today it's childhood onset.   The age of diagnosis could easily be charted against time to see this trend.

Likewise with childhood only disease.  Things like autism rising a thousand times within my own lifetime.  Diseases that represent severe development challenges,  now rampant at varying degrees in virtually all children.  This wasn't so in my childhood!  These things were rare.

Put these two trends together and you get a health crisis,  which leads soon to a health care crisis.  America is dying,  and it is the children paying the highest price.  To stop and reverse this trend does not take treatments.  That's just silliness.  You don't watch a noncuminicable disease spread like wildfire and try to stop it by treating the sick.  No,  we have to look for why these things are spreading,  what is the root cause. Reverse the root cause and the trend reverses.

So what is root cause?  I have a suggestion... Instead of carefully looking for the one thing that might be responsible,  let's take a new approach.  Lets reverse everything that "might!  Be a cause,  immediately,  and then search for the one truly responsible!  Doing this stops the damage first,  learn second.  Put children over science.  Why would we not?

So many say" no,  can't be that,  there is no proof.  I won't change until you prove it".  What they are really saying is "I value this thing more than my child or my health,  so I won't change until you prove I have to".   Selfish,  childish,  immature behavior.  How does that person then go to God and say "heal me of this thing,  I refuse to change my own life...  Either you heal me or I will wait for the magic pill".   Ridiculous.

So,  here's my advice.  Change everything that might possibly be cause for failing health and don't restart unless absolute proof is given that there is no harm. Therein is wisdom,  and it works. 

What causes autism?  Poor health...  A combination of toxins,  lack of nutrition,  genetic weaknesses,  etc.  They will never find one thing responsible because it is not caused by one thing,  but rather a state of being.  Same with diabetes,  cancer,  alheizemers,  etc.  For any particular individual you can point to one thing that "put them over the edge"  and caused the visible start of these diseases.  But even then it isn't one thing responsible.  Many things led them to the brink,  any one of many could have pushed them over.

So please...  Do everything possible to protect health.  Be willing to "sacrifice"  a little pleasure,  inconvenience,  to achieve health. Then rely on God for the rest.  He will honor that type of dedication and sacrifice.  Do all that we can and he will complete the rest.

Health is not in a pill,  health is in a lifestyle.

Health in America put on deep freeze

Why is modern America so sick?  There are lots of "reasons"  but really j7st a few root causes.  By root cause I mean those unique moments in history that changed the course of health in America.

One of these moments,  is the invention of refrigeration for food.  Yep..  The fridge is one of the primary root causes of failing health today.  Sound absurd?  Follow this logic.

Health is heavily dependent on probiotic life...  Bacteria,  molds,  fungus,  viruses that build up instead of destroy.  These invisible entities can not be substituted by any other means.  Their benefit lie in their action (digesting and attacking enemies),  their by products (the complex beneficial chemicals and such that they leave behind),  and their genetics (the part of their genetic code that they impart into their environment).  These three simply can not come from any other source.  Health demands the real deal.

Where do these invisible health sources live?  Fermented foods!  They are the forces that turn fresh foods into preserved foods.  That is,  until refrigeration.   Look around you today...  Who ferments things?  Today,  because of refrigeration among other things,  Americans want to extend Netherlands fresh period of food and not have to ferment to store.  No more root cellars,  no crocks of saurkraut and pickles,  no more hanging meats and clattering milk. etc.  Today we have fridges and freezers. These devices have fundamentally changed human experience by removing the need to ferment,  and thereby removing one of the  3 pillars of health.

Another aspect is the ability to live outside the seasons.  Seasons of planting,  growing,  harvest,  rest have been supporting mankind for thousands of years.  Only very recently have we been able to fridge and freeze things for long periods,  artificially extending that "season".  This thereby throws of the natural cycle and balances of what we consume. Transportation has some blame here,  but without refrigeration it wouldn't be possible to transport most foods very far.

A third aspect of refrigeration is the ability to not grow food.  Not many years ago everyone grew some food.  It was necessary and expected.  Without refrigeration stores could not carry fresh foods long.   This again fundamentally changed America so that the average person could choose to stop making food themselves and instead leave that to others completely.  This disconnects the individual from their sustenance and thereby their health.  Disconnected individuals loose control and oversight.  All sorts of evils crop in unnoticed.  Health declines.

Refrigeration.  It is one of the evils that is killing us.  Until we realize this,  health care in America will continue to be in crisis.  Our families will suffer,  our children suffer higher and higher rates of disease.  It's certainly not the only root cause,  but a big one.

SAD is the basis of disease, not somewhere to go

SAD is "standard American diet",  and it is the basis of most modern diseases.  There are many reasons for this,  but that is not the point of this post.  This is about destinations,  not explanations nor causation.

I often see people saying something to the effect of "I wish there was a cure for the disease of xxxxxx so that I could eat normal".  What they mean is they want the consequences of eating bad to go away magically so they can return to eating bad.  That just makes no sense.

If SAD is the cause of disease,  then it is totally inappropriate for us to seek a cure,  pray for a cure,  wait for a cure,  if the purpose of being cured is to return to the evil that caused the disease to start with!  Doing so is not asking for a cure,  but asking for the rules of life to be changed so that we may live as we want without consequence.

For instance,  what if a child demanded to eat only ice cream.  Nothing else.  Three or four times a day,  ice cream.  How many years could they go without running into a health problem or three?  Not many.  When they fall to a problem,  do they seek a cure so that they can return to ice cream three times a day every day until they run into another problem or three?   This is nothing but a spoiled child demanding God to change the rules to fit their selfish desires.  The end result?  They would live miserable,  chasing health problem after health problem as their body struggles to stay alive.

Ridiculous?  Perhaps,  but that is what the average American does.  Lives on SAD every day,  eating and drinking whatever they wish,  and running to modern medicine to mask symptoms of their impending death as the symptoms arise.  No difference!  Just a spoiled adult demanding God change the rules of life to fit their own selfish desires.

Simply put...  SAD kills.  It is worse than starvation,  it is starvation plus toxicity.  SAD is based on man's desire to be God,  to do whatever he wants in a never ending push to serve his own physical pleasure,  and to eliminate God's natural laws about life.  Man seeks to change nature through medicine to allow himself more pleasure. 

God does not honor that,  and it does not work.

Do not seek to find healing through any means in an effort to return to or continue SAD....  Instead reject SAD as the problem and accept nature's laws as given by god.  Seek to learn what health is,  and how to achieve it.  Do not seek to find a way to live with SAD.  Seek to find how to truly live!

The Basics of Health

Health can be defined most accurately as the absence of the need for medicinal attention, support, advice, and medicines. The better health we are in as individuals, the less we "need" for healthcare. Perfect health would mean no medicine, no treatments, no doctors, period.

Towards that end, there are two things to discuss, the process of finding health and the basic understanding of maintaining health.  These two together provide a primer on the art of being healthy.

The process of achieving good health. 

This is rooted in using symptoms as signposts, pointing the problem, not as something to be cured. Modern medicine is focused primarily on relief of symptoms, not resolution of problems. They are very good at resolving symptoms, but doing this generally lowers the patient's overall health.  Symptoms appear because of something, something wrong. some underlying cause.  The cause must find a weakness. Some area of the body that is less capable of thwarting that cause. Then, a symptom is born. The symptom is NOT the problem. The problem is two fold: 1)a weakness and 2) a cause. Only in addressing both of those will true health be gained and in most cases the symptoms resolves itself. Understanding this process is what modern western medicine lacks, and what is at the root of the failing american health care system and public health.

Understanding the maintenance of health

This is rooted in an understanding of Gods design for nature and biology. It requires the acceptance of a few basic principles that together build the case to how to stay healthy:

1. God created life good with an overall design that allowed for man to live forever, in his present body.  Even after the fall, man was designed to life for 1000 years.  That is the goal.

2. At the flood, things changed dramatically, so that the lifespan of man reduced by about 10 times.  100 to 120 years is the max lifespan that we dropped to within a few generations of the flood. We can assume that this is all our current environment will support.

3. God provided all the elements necessary for man to live healthy for 100 to 120 years.  It is built into nature. It is our job to preserve that wisdom.

4. Food, environment, microbes, genetics work together to produce health. It takes a careful balance of all four to maintain good health.

5. A system that is supported by sickness will never bring proper health, it would be suicide. This is at the root of why modern healthcare does not provide for health, only sustaining sickness.

6. prevention is significantly easier than curing. But often they are the same treatment, just in different proportions.

7. america is dying from malnutrition. The food of america is devoid of minerals, vitamins, as well as the other stuff of life and full of toxins from poison based agriculture. It has been so long since a healthy individual was the norm that "normal" today is a state of deficiency.

8. Modern medicine has much wisdom about treating disease, but little if any in preventing. In fact, modern medicine is responsible for causing the bulk of disease it must then treat. This must be taken into account when treatment decisions are to be made.

9. Each generation of america has become sicker. The last 2 generations especially. Children today are riddled with diseases that were once rare. The "sins of the fathers" are being passed on and magnified in the children.  This will continue until a set of parents individually rises up to protect their family, goes against the tide in america, and creates health from within. Then the trend for that family changes and children become more healthy than parents.

10. God did not intend us to be sick and suffering.  While not all suffering can be eliminated in this world, MOST is self inflicted by america's intense drive for convenience, recreation, pleasure and ease.  These work together in a aura of selfishness that prevents god from bringing health. Consider the person that smokes, contracts cancer, begs god to heal them, but continues smoking. What is HE to do? If he heals the cancer the person feels justified in continuing to cause obvious and willful damage to their body to gain physical pleasure. The person puts pleasure over proper and god can not honor that.  The same analogy can be used to cover those who eat sweets, inorganic food, fast food, processed food, etc. All these are rooted in selfishness on the part of the individual and that both created disease as well as ties gods hands to help.

If you know not, he has mercy and removes the consequences. Once you know, or have opportunity to know, you are without excuse and must pay the price for willful mistakes even if done in willful ignorance.

In upcoming blog posts I will explore the details of what we have learned about health, how we have avoided doctors for about 2 years in a family of 6 to 8, mostly cured autism and adhd without drugs, prevented and healed cavities,  stopped the aging process and reversed the clock, etc.  There are definite lessons here, but first the ground of your understanding must be prepared to hear.  The points above must fall into place or the wisdom I have to share will fall on deaf ears.

God gives us a free will, for better or for worse. We should never use that free will to disrespect his enduring love by asking to fix a physical problem for which we are not willing to change our lifestyle.