Posts Tagged ‘full spectrum nutrition’

The Music of Life

Thursday, June 14th, 2012

We approach life and health as though it were a locked safe guarding its secrets from our finding them out. We lack the right combination. We employ cracksmen to derive that perfect, laboratory formulation. We try, through medicines and drugs, to MAKE the body work correctly. But the music of life is sweet only when we supply all the ingredients that ALLOWS the component parts of our bodies to play in harmony.

Our efforts are not entirely in vain. Medical science can do many things with drugs and medical formulations. But often there are these discordant results. We call them, “side effects,” as though what they do to us on the side is not important.

Would you sit through a symphony performance if the first violin section had to stomp their feet and kick their music stands in order to play an “A”? Yet we endure all this banging and clatter from our medicines and go on pretending that our life is making music.

The “secrets” of life and health are open to those willing to enter into the relationships that exist among the ingredients. We can choose to consume foods that easily provide a full spectrum of the nutrition we need: essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, antioxidant pigments, and more. We can choose to provide and maintain active colonies of beneficial bacteria. We can enter into the process of immunity and healing by conserving and supplementing our body’s enzyme supply. We can choose to lead lives that avoid stress and toxic exposure as much as possible. We can enter into the subtleties of what makes our bodies work best, as when every cell in my body stood before me declaring, “This is good for us,” when I began eating a certain food.

This is the price for a ticket to the no-clatter symphony. Will it produce the results of harmony you want? The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.

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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