I saw a nutritional MD on Thursday and started an alkalizing diet the next day. She drew some labs to check my nutritional levels of micronutrients. Along with the diet I'm going to be using Vitamin B complex and Cyanocobalamin injections a couple of times a week, digestive enzymes with meals, adrenal supplements in the morning, and Probiotics at night along with my usual supplements until my labs come back and we see what I need to tweak. She also gave me a Meyers Cocktail IV. I want to not just be well but I want to have options like running marathons...!
Anyone who is sick or has been sick should eat an alkalizing diet. Acidic foods cause your PH to be too acid leading to imbalances and disease. The disease pathogens like yeast, fungus and tumor cells love-love-love an acidic blood environment. Your body regulates all excess acid by storing it in your cells only leading to the creation of more fat cells for storage bins for all this poison.
Alkaline foods create an impossible environment for the bad cells to function so eating alkalizing food will cause you to lose excess weight and heal your body on a cellular level. Very basically an alkalizing diet avoids dairy, gluten and grains, tropical fruits, any type of sugar including honey, peanut butter, and all meats, chicken, and pork.
So what do you eat?
Overview of the alkaline foods
Dr. Young, the author of the “Ph Miracle” program lists the following food in an alkalizing diet:
Healthy fats: cold-pressed oils, seed oils, avocado and coconuts; fresh fish from unpolluted waters;
Sources of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, protein and fiber: green vegetables, seaweeds, sprouts and tomatoes; lemons, limes and grapefruit; quinoa and buckwheat; sea salt.
Best Alkaline foods
Highly Alkaline (Best):
Alkaline water (water with Ph drops or greens powder)
Real Salt, Celtic Salt
Pumpkin seeds
Vegetables: grasses, dandelion, sprouts, cucumber, sea vegetables, brocco-flower, kale and parsley.
Moderately alkaline (Better):
Lima beans
White navy beans
Granulated soy
Red pepper
Cayenne
Garlic
Ginger
Onion
Beets
Radish
Vegetables: tomato, avocado, green beans, sorrel, spinach, garlic, celery, cabbage, lettuce, bell peppers, collard greens, endive, broccoli, arugula, mustard greens, okra.
Mildly alkaline (Good):
Lentils
Soy flour
Distilled waterHerbs and most spices
Fats (cold pressed): Olive oil, borage oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, flaxseed oil, evening primrose oil, marine lipids, cod liver oil
Fruit: lime, lemon, grapefruit, coconut, sour cherry
Grains : quinoa, buckwheat, spelt
Goat milk
Almonds
Root vegetables : rutabaga, horseradish, turnip, carrot
Seeds: sesame, cumin, caraway, fennel
Sweeteners: chicory, stevia
Vegetables: Brussels sprouts, peas, asparagus, artichokes, comfrey, cauliflower, zucchini, rhubarb, leeks, watercress, chives, kohlrabi.
Some acidic foods such as brown rice, flax seed and blueberries still do have tremendous health benefits. The key is to keep the whole diet mostly alkaline by consuming more alkaline foods along with the best of acidic foods or mildly acidic foods.
Alkaline diet also causes weight loss because:
- Most of the alkaline foods are vegetables
- There are no sugar or bad fats
- There is no animal protein
- Most of the foods are organic and are consumed raw giving you most of their nutritional content while avoiding environmental toxins.
OK so I thought my diet was really good but I’ve been eating oatmeal for breakfast, a little dairy, and lots of free range chicken. She said fish was OK so I went shopping!
When I got home from the store I made some humus and ate it with celery, then I had some Tilapia and asparagus for dinner. Hmmmmm this isn’t so hard.
What I ate the next day:
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs in coconut oil, a banana, a grapefruit (she said eggs have high quality protein so OK!)
Lunch: I went out to eat with my daughter in law, thinking this was going to be really tough because we went to the Cheesecake Factory. I was surprisingly wonderful and fit perfectly into my new diet; I had seared Tuna salad that consisted of sliced nearly raw tuna with a mixture of greens including arugula, sliced tomatoes, avocados, and ginger with oil and (and a little) vinegar dressing. Incredibly good!!!
Dinner: Before I left I put some lentils in the slow cooker, first I sautéed some celery, jalapeno pepper, a chopped red onion in coconut oil then added that to the cooker with a couple of containers of vegetable broth, some cooked asparagus from my fridge, chopped carrots, salt, pepper, cumin, and some dried parsley.
I also made this soup and had a little of that before bed.
Spicy Carrot & Squash Soup
Ingredients:
1 Large acorn squash
6 large Carrots
1 chopped red onion
2-3 garlic cloves
1 jalapeno pepper
Slices of fresh ginger
2 containers of vegetable stock
Fresh thyme leaves
Salt and pepper
Coconut Oil
I cooked the acorn squash in my toaster oven. Then sautéed the chopped onion, pepper, and garlic in coconut oil. Add the broth, scoop out the cooked squash, add chopped carrots and seasoning. Cook till carrots are done puree the soup in a blender. I added some diluted coconut milk to the soup when I ate it.
I’m very used to thinking ahead before meals so this little tweak to my diet doesn’t seem that hard. I imagine if you’re eating a lot of processed food, beef, caffeine, and sugar it would be pretty difficult to make this change. So take beneficial changes slowly so you can really make the change and not get discouraged.
Caffeine by the way is steroids to your adrenal glands, and we don’t need to whip our adrenals any more than they already are.
Anyone who is sick or has been sick should eat an alkalizing diet. Acidic foods cause your PH to be too acid leading to imbalances and disease. The disease pathogens like yeast, fungus and tumor cells love-love-love an acidic blood environment. Your body regulates all excess acid by storing it in your cells only leading to the creation of more fat cells for storage bins for all this poison.
Alkaline foods create an impossible environment for the bad cells to function so eating alkalizing food will cause you to lose excess weight and heal your body on a cellular level. Very basically an alkalizing diet avoids dairy, gluten and grains, tropical fruits, any type of sugar including honey, peanut butter, and all meats, chicken, and pork.
So what do you eat?
Overview of the alkaline foods
Dr. Young, the author of the “Ph Miracle” program lists the following food in an alkalizing diet:
Healthy fats: cold-pressed oils, seed oils, avocado and coconuts; fresh fish from unpolluted waters;
Sources of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, protein and fiber: green vegetables, seaweeds, sprouts and tomatoes; lemons, limes and grapefruit; quinoa and buckwheat; sea salt.
Best Alkaline foods
Highly Alkaline (Best):
Alkaline water (water with Ph drops or greens powder)
Real Salt, Celtic Salt
Pumpkin seeds
Vegetables: grasses, dandelion, sprouts, cucumber, sea vegetables, brocco-flower, kale and parsley.
Moderately alkaline (Better):
Lima beans
White navy beans
Granulated soy
Red pepper
Cayenne
Garlic
Ginger
Onion
Beets
Radish
Vegetables: tomato, avocado, green beans, sorrel, spinach, garlic, celery, cabbage, lettuce, bell peppers, collard greens, endive, broccoli, arugula, mustard greens, okra.
Mildly alkaline (Good):
Lentils
Soy flour
Distilled waterHerbs and most spices
Fats (cold pressed): Olive oil, borage oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, flaxseed oil, evening primrose oil, marine lipids, cod liver oil
Fruit: lime, lemon, grapefruit, coconut, sour cherry
Grains : quinoa, buckwheat, spelt
Goat milk
Almonds
Root vegetables : rutabaga, horseradish, turnip, carrot
Seeds: sesame, cumin, caraway, fennel
Sweeteners: chicory, stevia
Vegetables: Brussels sprouts, peas, asparagus, artichokes, comfrey, cauliflower, zucchini, rhubarb, leeks, watercress, chives, kohlrabi.
Some acidic foods such as brown rice, flax seed and blueberries still do have tremendous health benefits. The key is to keep the whole diet mostly alkaline by consuming more alkaline foods along with the best of acidic foods or mildly acidic foods.
Alkaline diet also causes weight loss because:
What I ate the next day:
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs in coconut oil, a banana, a grapefruit (she said eggs have high quality protein so OK!)
Lunch: I went out to eat with my daughter in law, thinking this was going to be really tough because we went to the Cheesecake Factory. I was surprisingly wonderful and fit perfectly into my new diet; I had seared Tuna salad that consisted of sliced nearly raw tuna with a mixture of greens including arugula, sliced tomatoes, avocados, and ginger with oil and (and a little) vinegar dressing. Incredibly good!!!
Dinner: Before I left I put some lentils in the slow cooker, first I sautéed some celery, jalapeno pepper, a chopped red onion in coconut oil then added that to the cooker with a couple of containers of vegetable broth, some cooked asparagus from my fridge, chopped carrots, salt, pepper, cumin, and some dried parsley.
I also made this soup and had a little of that before bed.
Spicy Carrot & Squash Soup
Ingredients:
1 Large acorn squash
6 large Carrots
1 chopped red onion
2-3 garlic cloves
1 jalapeno pepper
Slices of fresh ginger
2 containers of vegetable stock
Fresh thyme leaves
Salt and pepper
Coconut Oil
I cooked the acorn squash in my toaster oven. Then sautéed the chopped onion, pepper, and garlic in coconut oil. Add the broth, scoop out the cooked squash, add chopped carrots and seasoning. Cook till carrots are done puree the soup in a blender. I added some diluted coconut milk to the soup when I ate it.
I’m very used to thinking ahead before meals so this little tweak to my diet doesn’t seem that hard. I imagine if you’re eating a lot of processed food, beef, caffeine, and sugar it would be pretty difficult to make this change. So take beneficial changes slowly so you can really make the change and not get discouraged.
Caffeine by the way is steroids to your adrenal glands, and we don’t need to whip our adrenals any more than they already are.