The digestive system is the foundation of our health and wellbeing. We are what we eat, digest, distribute and absorb. Through years of poor eating habits, wrong food combining, nutrient deficient dietary choices and other factors like stress, puts strain on this system and its ability to contribute to our health instead of being the source of our dis-ease.  

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Workshop coverage:

1. Digestive health (Hydrochloric acid/bile formation/enzyme rich food solutions)

2. Food combining, meat preparation, liver cleansing protocols to aid in overall digestion.

3. Digestive guidelines/laws for optimal digestion and assimilation.

Keeping  a good and constant flow within the intestines is a prerequisite for ensured longevity and healing. Healing a leaky gut and the intestinal lining can take time, but is possible. Lifestyle changes are a must though. 

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No probiotic bought from a pharmacy will be sufficient to heal the gut microbiome, the intestinal flow and close those tight junctures to ultimately restore health.  A strong and resilient gut calls for a variety of plant fibers and supportive foods, outdoor activity in diverse atmospheres. Also the elimination of toxic foods that feed internal fungi, yeast, mucus, viruses and intestinal muck will be a good step forward in your healing regime.

Good deep abdominal breathing to boost oxygen distribution to the area of the gut and lower abdomen to seal the deal. 

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Real Food solutions:

1. Prebiotic food rich in diverse plant fiber.

2. Resistant starches.

3. Fabulous Ferments, yogurt (coconut), cottage cheese, kvass. 

The opening of all the 'detox pathways' prior to or during initiating a cleanse is important:

1. To ensure complete elimination of toxic elements.

2. To ensure no other tissue (s) get damaged during the process of the cleanse by simply distributing toxicity into other areas of the body.

3. To protect the nervous system, endocrine glands and also to avoid intense detoxing effects like headaches or migraines. 

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It all depends on the individual's level of toxicity and exposure to heavy metals, halides and other negative antagonists and system disruptors. 

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The detox pathways should actually be flowing within our daily life enabled by our lifestyle habits and choices. 

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Detox pathways:

1. Flowing Bowels.

2. Deep abdominal breathing.

3. Sweating and skin health.

4. Daily kidney flushing.

5. Liver replenishment.

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Cleansing rituals:

1. Morning cleansing protocol as lifestyle living.

2. Conscious choices regarding health & healing.

3. Long life advice & practices.

 

Blood Health

Blood feeds our cells with all the essential nutrients and building blocks necessary to maintain the process of shedding old cells and building resilient new cells. 

 Food and a healthy ‘digestive fire’ feeds our blood with the nutrients extracted and derived from the food we eat through the process of digestion, assimilation and distribution.  

A good circulation system allows the blood to reach every cell within the body matrix.

A strong respiratory system and function help the blood pumped by the heart by controlling the pressure and secure the integrity of the vascular system.

Food - Digestion - Nutrition - Circulation and  Respiration = healthy cellular matrix.

Liver - Cleans blood and maintains a smooth internal flow of blood. Headaches, high blood pressure may all indicate liver disorders.

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Substances to help keep blood healthy and circulating

1. Shikimic acid, suramin and coumarins

2. Cayenne Pepper, Turmeric, Black Pepper

3. Omega 3 fatty acids vs. inflammatory fats

4. Respiratory Function (Qi distribution through meridians and sinews) 

5. MSM, Magnesium, Boron (anti-inflammatory agents)

6. Fasting - Flushing

7. Fats and Thick Blood

8. Elimination diet

Healing the gut and the intestines (microbiome) is essential for health and mental clarity. 70% of our immune system cells are located within our gut. A healthy gut is responsible for manufacturing hormones like serotonin and minimizing inflammation in the body in a big way (leaky gut syndrome).

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Our food cravings are generally due to the bacteria in our gut aiming to stay alive by sending signals of cravings for the specific food groups that feed them and help them to thrive. Depending on the bacterium (beneficial or detrimental to our health) present in large amounts will determine our food cravings and food choices. Resetting the gut microbiome is possible through elimination diets and introducing plenty of fiber rich foods (plants). This may require some will power to stay on track with your eating program. To successfully eliminate refined sugars and simple carbohydrates, fats, over salty and artificial flavorings can be challenging as eating is closely linked to our emotional responses and stress. 

 

A flush can reset the gut and your craving responses much quicker and restore a healthy amount of beneficial bacteria within a week or two as the foundation to build on with better choices and habits regarding food and digestion. 

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Flush & Fast & Flow

1. Flush the intestines with beet kvass.

2. Fast to kill off non beneficial bacteria.

3. Restore the flow and lining by introducing key foods and recipes to your daily diet. 

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Our Cellular nutrient quotient and consistent mineralization is responsible for the effective process of detoxification, alkalinity, electric internal flow, bone health, hormone stability, blood quality and pretty much our internal resilience and immune health. 

Our delicate endocrine system relies on certain minerals to stabilize and work accordingly as does the rest of the system. We eat primarily to ensure that the body gets an appropriate supply, according to each individual's need, of essential cellular nutrients that we can only get from external sources. 

There is a theory that when the body has efficient cellular nutrients built up, and the person's lifestyle is almost stress-free or rather beautifully balanced, less and less nutrients are required through food. What is more needed is lifeforce through nature, clean water, sunshine and loving relationships. 

Although a balanced life included all of these constantly to manage and support a fully functioning human being. 

Digesting food and wrong eating or overeating causes way more damage than too little food or nutrients. 

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Essential Nutrients

1. Nutrient dense foods.

2. Functional cuisine.

3. Intelligent supplementation.

4. Skin health and Sun exposure.

5. Stress management & Adaptogens

Salt Water Kitchen is all about finding solutions regarding food, herbs, spices, super-powders and other beneficial concoctions that are easy to implement and satisfying to the taste. 

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Kitchen solutions aligned with health and healing also fall together with lifestyle habits and action solutions that can fit comfortably into an individuals present lifestyle. 

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Change is no-change and no-change is change!

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This is a saying that followed me on my own journey for decades. Slow and steady!

To bring about sustainable change can be tricky! 

For some people elaborate changes in choices and behavior can fall into sustainable living, but for most a slow start is the better route here.

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Ensuring long-term change in habits within daily life, incremental tweaking will form a solid foundation for increased momentum of health and healing to follow spontaneously.

 

Follow a diet has never turned out to be successful in the long term. Only lifestyle living ensures a wellness in being and quality living. ​

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Quality living is the clarity and response-ability we gain in our experiences on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels of being.

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For me quality living means:

• the knowing that I have the tools to manage my stress,

• the ability to respond better to life's challenges,

• the result of aging as an increased amount of higher emotions such as contentment, joy, happiness and love, 

• body integrity, mental clarity, emotional stability.

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Quality life is attainable. We all have trauma and blockages due to our past experiences. To enable healing on all levels it is crucial to embody cellularly. 

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We are:

Cells = Tissues

Tissues = Organs

Organs = Systems

Systems = Body

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Cellular nutrition starts in the kitchen!

(Mineralization)

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Cellular oxygenation requires not only oxygenation but hydration, circulation, mineralization, detoxification and so forth.

 

All the healing categories are in alignment. 

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By exercising = oxygenation, hydration, circulation, detoxification....

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By allowing spontaneous detoxification by following the daily morning cleanse = oxygenation, hydration, circulation, relaxation, rejuvenation, healing...

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Every lifestyle hack that you implement will affect the whole body. So start anywhere but remember that food is either medicine or poison.

Compound healing:

A small right or a small wrong has a compound effect in one's life building day by day, for decades.

Practices and conscious choices will have a exponential healing effect over time and practice.  A little goes a long way. 

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