Archive for December, 2011

Bacterial Foundation of Healthy Living

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Living closely with Nature gave us opportunity to observe, experience and recognize many Qualities of ourselves – Qualities that correspond with the growth processes and actions of plants and animals.

We Knew that Nature was simply humanity turned inside out – and humanity was Nature turned outside in…

Steve Gagné, Energetics of Food, p. 8. The two paragraphs are quoted in reverse order.

Have you ever wondered why it is the more we live in an artificial world, the more susceptible we are to those organisms whose job it is to recycle biological material? Why is it that we seem more vulnerable to illnesses when we try to live in an antiseptic environment?

Take a look at the human body. There are at least two aspects that correspond with the quote from Steve Gagné above.

First, we have two sides that are open to the world: our exterior and our gastro-intestinal tract. Early on in our development, we turn outside in to form a hollow tube surrounded by our body. Our G.I. tract is nothing more that captured and controlled exterior. This is a trick used by many single-celled organisms to engulf their food. Whereas they repeatedly perform phagocytosis, we do it once and use the resulting hollow tube to digest our food and eliminate our waste.

The second characteristic of humans corroborating Steve’s statement is our dependence upon bacteria for the foundation of everything our body does. The G.I. tract depends upon about eight pounds of beneficial bacteria to control that environment and to ensure proper digestion of our food, proper absorption of what our cells need from that food, and proper elimination of waste. Without those eight pounds of beneficial guests, our gut would soon be over run with disease causing organisms which would soon breach the intestinal wall and enter the body.

Further, each of your cells could not function if it did not carry its own bacteria-like symbiont. The mitochondria of each cell is not part of you nor controlled by your heredity. It has its own DNA. Without mitochondria, your cells would have no energy. You would cease to exist. You would never have begun to exist.

So inside out or outside in, it is time to recognize our connection to the rest of nature. We are a participant in nature, not the god of nature. That which nourishes and sustains us must come from nature, just as our Bacterial foundation of healthy living comes from nature.

Ellis Hein

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AFA Algae and Immune Function

Monday, December 19th, 2011

Your immune system is a complex organization of organs, glands, fluids, and specialized cells. These act together in a wonderfully orchestrated manner to protect you from invading organisms and from the normal hazards of metabolism.

The food you eat can affect your immune function. Refined sugars, for example, can decrease the ability of your white blood cells to destroy invading bacteria or viruses. On the other hand, betacarotene and other carotenoid compounds stimulate the thymus gland to produce thymosin. Thymosin along with zinc and arginine encourages production of more active and more energetic T-cells. These T-cells, as well as doing other things, produce interferon, a substance that stimulates protein production in cell walls, making your cells less vulnerable to the intrusion of viruses.

Neutrophils are white blood cells that engulf bacteria by enveloping them and then digests them. Their ability to perform depends upon the fluidity of their cell membrane. Fluidity is a function of the fatty acid balance you eat. You particularly need the correct balance of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids, as found in premium AFA algae (a.k.a. Alpha Sun).

All white blood cells are dependent upon various enzyme systems. Enzymes must have the right vitamins and minerals present in the right proportion before they can carry out their functions. Unlike laboratory formulations, the vitamins and minerals found in raw foods, such as premium AFA algae (Alpha Sun), are chelated in live enzymes and enzyme systems. Thus your body can easily assimilate and easily make use of those nutrients. This explains why refined sugars diminish your immune function. They rob you of vitamins and minerals just to be dealt with in the digestive tract and to be dealt with once they reach your cells. This uses supplies that would otherwise have been available for your immune system.

Premium AFA algae (Alpha Sun) has a wealth of nutrients that are bound up in living systems, easily accessible to the human organism. Your body can use those nutrients for many different functions including your immune system.

For more information, see Karl Abrams Algae to the Rescue, chapter 7.

Ellis Hein

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Bean Sandwiches and The Bread of Life

Monday, December 12th, 2011

When I first tasted lacto-fermented beans some years ago, I immediately thought of bean sandwiches, a childhood favorite. First, I will give you the recipe, then I will continue with my musings

The Recipe for Bean Sandwiches with Lacto Fermented Pinto Beans

The first step is to create the lacto-fermented beans. There are many sources for recipes, but I share mine if you care to use it. (It makes 6 plus pints.)

  • Soak three cups of pinto beans in pure water for eight hours.
  • Cook the beans until tender. (The amount of time will vary according to your altitude.)
  • Mash them with a pastry blender, potato masher, or fork. Use enough liquid to make them into a paste like thick cream.
  • Allow to cool to room temperature.
  • Add three tablespoons of salt and one capsule of Spectrabiotic (for inoculant). Stir well.
  • Put the beans into pint jars and 1/2 pint jars. Cap them with good lids.
  • Let the jars sit at room temperature for three days.
  • Refrigerate. They keep well.

Now for the sandwiches. Prepare some naturally leavened bread according to your preference. Spread some lacto-fermented bean paste onto the bread and enjoy.

Musings

Every summer, until I was old enough to be working in the fields, I would participate in Daily Vacation Bible School. That was ok if the teacher presented anything of substance. But there were two things that could trump even lack of interesting material. First, would my cousin Wayne Rector be present? If he were there, we always had interesting things to talk about and think of. The second trump was bean sandwiches. I could endure any amount of triviality –just shut it out and think of something more compelling – if I got to have bean sandwiches for sack lunch.

The filling was cooked brown beans mashed up with cucumber pickles, pickle juice, and some mustard. And please, spread it thickly.

But those were imitation bean sandwiches and I didn’t know it. I now have had the real thing, both in understanding the Bible and in my culinary delight. Bean sandwiches made from lacto-fermented beans (with lacto-fermented vegetables as a garnish if you choose) are the substance of that shadow of my childhood.

So prepare yourself a bean sandwich or two, and, if you care to, have a go at the gospel of John at the same time. For me, when I grasped the significance of living food to the body, I then had a foundation for understanding the significance of The Bread of Life. Tell me the results of your own experiments.

Ellis Hein

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Health Is Knocking, Invite It In To Be Your Guest

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Do you ever wish you could escape or alleviate the misery of cold and flu season? Health could be knocking on your door right now. Will you invite it in?

Our children are 18 and 16 years old. I find it hard to remember when they, or any of us, last had the flu with all its attendant, miserable experiences.

No we are not special, nor have we retreated from contact with other people. Our family used to be part of that segment of the population that were good hunters. We always caught what was going around. But we have now caught a vision of something better.

Immunity from the flu begins with those beneficial bacterial guests you entertain. These small organisms inhabiting your gut play a crucial role in determining if any given bout of flu passes you by. Vigorous colonies of bacteria not only regulate what organisms proliferate themselves in your gut, the colonies also produce natural antibiotics that can circulate throughout the body.

There are other components of immunity that should not be neglected. All those specialized cells that your body uses to destroy and engulf invaders are actuated or enhanced by certain foods. They are depressed by consumption of refined sugar.

Part of my family’s journey to health has included cleansing our diet of refined sugar and other substances that pull down immunity. Another part includes consuming AFA algae products and supplemental probiotics. Karl Abrams devotes a whole chapter in his Algae to the Rescue to how the nutrients in AFA algae boost immunity. More on that in a later post. We also consume lacto-fermented grains, beans, and vegetables. These are not only a good source of friendly bacteria, we get the nutrients those bacteria manufactured as well as those they have liberated from the foodstuff.

So the choice really is yours. You can continue to enjoy vomiting and other miseries of flu season or you can begin the climb to a state of health enjoyed only by those whose cells, organs, and systems function in accordance with the design of the Original Equipment Manufacturer.

You might be surprised by what is possible.

If you wish to know particular products I have found helpful in maintaining immunity, contact me, and I will be happy to discuss what you may want to do for yourself.

Ellis Hein

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Lacto-Fermented Artichokes Revisited

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Having now eaten my my lacto-fermented Jerusalem artichokes for a number of days, I am ready to report to you that they continue to be great. Where the unfermented, cooked artichokes cause me problems, I find the lacto-fermented ones to be soothing and very comfortable in my stomach and intestinal tract. I find them very satisfying and filling. I don’t need as much food when I have lacto-fermented Jerusalem artichokes with a meal.

It is nice to be able to convert such a prolific vegetable as these artichokes into a food that I can use.

Ellis Hein

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My Foundation

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

It is not about money and how much money I can make. For me, my business is about life. Some people define life in terms of the car they can afford to drive, the house they live in, and the restaurants they frequent. I see life, the good life if you will, as having something that truly makes a lasting, beneficial difference in the way one’s cells work and the functionality and resilience of the body that brings.

History has proven that the value of money comes and goes. The satisfaction derived from making money the core of one’s efforts is shallow and hollow. These are not attributes I value as a foundation.

There are many things I have learned as a result of working with Simplexity Health’s Super Blue-Green® Algae products. The most valuable lesson is the importance of a proper foundation for building a lifetime of health. This is a foundation whose value does not decrease the more it is shared by others.

The value of money lies in the perception that I have something you want and can’t have unless you do what I want you to. The value of health lies in your body’s ability to regulate, repair, and replace organs and tissues without mistake.

This is the cue for the chorus of “Yeah buts” to chime in defending our money centered lives. At least some of what you will hear from the chorus is true. I know from experience what it is like to be without things you need money to get. I also know from experience what it is like to have a body filled with functional cells. From my experience, I choose health, yours and mine, as the foundation of my business efforts.

Ellis Hein

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