Archive for March, 2012

Counterfeit Food Or Genuine Food

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

The counterfeit is always known by its inability to perform its crucial function. Its deception is that it can fulfill some of the lesser obligations. A roll of counterfeit $100.00 bills may impress your friends and make your wallet just as fat as real bills would. But they are more likely to buy you a jail term than a new car.

The “counterfeitness” of your $100.00 bills is determined by pure convention. However, you can pass all the legislation you want, no amount of laws will make counterfeit food perform its crucial function at the critical moment when your cells need the minerals, vitamins, or other nutrients that should be there in appropriate combinations and appropriate forms. The wrong twist to a molecule can mean the difference between nutrient and poison. The wrong combination of nutrients can render those nutrients difficult or impossible to use.

Genuine food is produced in a naturally fertile growing environment, one that is free from man-made chemicals that interfere with the natural production of food molecules. By long practice we know those molecules as nutrients. It is not always possible to look at a particular food and tell if it is genuine or counterfeit. But your cells can tell every time whether or not they are receiving a full complement of the nutrients they need to keep you functioning at peak health.

Genuine food, whether of plant or animal origin, began its journey as minerals from the earth, carbon dioxide from the air, and light from the sun. Bacteria can play a role at all stages of the process of shaping those molecules. In some stages they play a crucial role.

Is it any surprise that one of the most powerful foods on the planet today comes from an organism, a blue-green bacteria, that has been in the business of food production since life began? Simplexity Health’s Super Blue Green Alpha Sun is perhaps the most genuine of all foods. The “Why Algae Overview” explains the growing environment of this organism and how it is treated during harvest and freeze drying. All these steps are important in maintaining the integrity, and thus the genuineness, of this food.

If you do not wish to suffer the consequences of eating counterfeit foods, (and they do come with a penalty) then you must begin today to consume the genuine article.

Ellis Hein

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Good Intentions: Paving Stones or Merely Mud

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” At least that was the thinking of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. I must disagree.

Whatever road you are on, the paving stones are not the good intentions but the core values of your life that determine your behavior. At some time, you have accepted, perhaps, or chosen those values to be your determinants.

On a more surface layer are good intentions. They exist to impress ourselves, impress others, or to provide some measure of insurance against the consequences of our behavior. When the core and the surface come into conflict, the core rules.

Perhaps you want to improve your health. You ask my advice and after our initial consultation I advise you to take certain actions, some of which requires purchasing certain food, some suggesting a lot more effort in preparing healthy meals. However, your core values include convenience and amassing money. You will not follow through on my advice nor on your goal.

These choices we make in spite of our good intentions are our real intentions speaking, declaring themselves for us to see. We can learn their language. We can read the road map we have printed on our soul. We can even re-choose. But we can’t do it in ignorance.

Jesus told those who would follow him, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” The change from one set of core values to another is as dramatic and as complete as that suggested by Jesus.

To attempt a change by anything less is only to work on the surface. All our good intentions will still lie on top of the road. However, they are merely mud that sticks to our shoes and legs. Not paving stones at all.

By Ellis Hein

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Enzyme Alive or Dead

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

That title could mean many different things. Your cells are either enzyme alive or they can’t perform the necessary metabolic functions to sustain life. Your whole body is either enzymatically alive or it is dead.

However, this title is a question regarding the lacto-fermented foods I produce. Do they have live enzymes?

One of the tests for live, activated enzymes is to sprinkle some over a bowl of warm oatmeal and let it sit for 20 minutes. If the enzymes liquefy the oatmeal, you know they are active. If no liquid forms, either the enzymes are not viable or they lack certain co-factors, minerals and vitamins, to activate them. Which amounts to the same thing as far as function goes.

I was warming up my breakfast of lacto-fermented oatmeal and had added in a lump of cold, non-fermented oatmeal. I let my bowl of food warm gently over a pan of hot water for about 20 minutes until the food was ready to eat. After uncovering the bowl, the first thing I noticed was a quantity of clear liquid around the lump of non-fermented oatmeal. While not appetizing, it was exciting to verify that I am producing enzyme alive, easy to digest food.

So, definitely not dead!

By Ellis Hein

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Fountain of Youth and Stem Cells

Monday, March 12th, 2012

Ponce de Leon discovered Florida while looking for the elusive fountain of youth. Dr. Paula Bickford and her team of researchers from the University of South Florida discovered that youth is not in the fountain but in a combination of certain foods. These foods help your body produce adult stem cells, those agents of repair and regeneration of damaged tissue.

Aging takes place when your body begins to slow down in its ability to produce these adult stem cells. A controversial procedure to use stem cells involves the use of placental tissue for the embryonic stem cells it contains. But there are no controversies nor legalities involved in supporting your body’s efforts to produce its own supply of adult stem cells.

Ponce de Leon sailed off to look for a fountain. He discovered a land instead. From the land of Ponce came Dr. Bickford’s research discovering certain foods that promote youth. You can experience the effects of Dr. Bickford’s discovery in Simplexity Health’s StemPlex.

Yes, drink plenty of Ponce’s water, but the power of youth is in the food.

If you have questions regarding StemPlex, feel free to fill out the contact form below. I will respond to you as soon as I can.

by Ellis Hein

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Resilience

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

In our culture of instant gratification, we have forgotten that health and resilience are built up cell by cell and bite of food by bite of food.

Your state of health is readily discerned by asking, “How do I feel? How does my mind and body function?” Your resilience is only determined by crises. Whether the crisis is an injury or some illness, these states reveal the depth of our well-being. Drugs can help the surface feeling so we can say, “I feel fine.” But the depths of reserves we need to draw upon for dealing with emergencies are only built from the nutrients we gain from our foods and deliver to our cells. Following are three examples of what this has meant in my life.

Example 1:

The strand of barbed wire suddenly twisted in my hand, pulling itself free. Thus the barb turned and imbedded itself in the ball of my thumb. A snow storm was approaching and I had several things to do before it hit; fixing that fence was only one of them. I had no choice but to ignore the pain and blood. Six hours later, when warming myself by the fire, I remembered the injury. I could find the spot where the barb had punctured my thumb, but there was no pain or tenderness.

Example 2:

The base of the tree, where it grew horizontally out of the side of the gully was 18 inches diameter. That five foot section, where the tree gradually turned vertical was pure fat wood; heavy, resin laden wood. When I tied my rope onto that section, I saw that if I swiveled it around I could drag it down the ravine. When I pulled, it didn’t swivel, it rolled. The crooked end went up and came down, Thump. The nail on my right, big toe received the full force of that thump. Then the log continued on, smashing into the other toes on my right foot. The pain was so intense, I couldn’t move. In five minutes I was not only moving but able to continue dragging section of that tree down to where I could pick them up with my bobcat. The blow had removed the big toe nail, but by the next morning I had no pain in any of the toes of that foot.

Example 3:

Right at the base of my neck where my shirt collar gaps open I had a mole. This area of my body is always in the sun, no matter what hat I wear. One day I noticed that mole had turned bright red and had started stinging and burning. Within a week, the mole pinched off and fell away.

These three examples of resilience occurred during a time of life when my body’s ability to do such feats is supposed to be diminishing. They took place after several years of building my reserves; a conscious deliberate act of consuming nutrient dense, full spectrum foods and avoiding those “foods” that deplete us.

What your body will have to cope with in the future, neither you nor I can say. But I can tell you that investing in resilience pays.

by Ellis Hein

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