wheat grass and acai!

if any of you know me,
i alternate juices daily
(and if you KNOW ME, i force you to drink a lot of different juices, teas, concoctions and potions...)

but wheat grass is awesome, and i know i've posted about it before.
it has so many health benefits, it's crazy.
(and it makes you feel great, too!)

• Wheatgrass juice contains up to 70% chlorophyll, which is an important blood builder
• Chlorophyll contains enzymes and super- oxide dismutase, a copper-containing protein found in mature red blood cells. 
• Wheatgrass juice contains crude chlorophyll (as opposed to pure) and can be taken orally and as a colon implant without side effects. In addition, scientists have never found wheatgrass to be toxic in any amount when given to either animals or humans.
• Chlorophyll is antibacterial and can be used inside and outside the body as a natural healer. The United States Army exposed guinea pigs to lethal doses of radiation. The guinea pigs fed chlorophyll-rich vegetables such as cabbage and broccoli had half the mortality rate as those fed a non-chlorophyll diet.
•  Chlorophyll can be extracted from many plants, but wheatgrass is superior because it has been found to have over 100 elements needed by man. If grown in organic soil, it absorbs 92 of the known 115 minerals from the soil.
• Liquid chlorophyll has the ability to get into the tissue, where it can actually refine and renew them.
• Liquid chlorophyll washes drug deposits from the body.
• Chlorophyll neutralizes toxins in the body.
• Chlorophyll helps purify the liver.
• Wheatgrass juice can dissolve the scars that are formed in the lungs from breathing acid gasses. The effect of carbon monoxide is minimized since chlorophyll increases hemoglobin production.
• Wheatgrass is high in oxygen like all green plants that contain chlorophyll. This is beneficial because the brain and all body tissues function at an optimal level in a highly- oxygenated environment.
• Wheatgrass juice is a superior detoxification agent compared to carrot juice and other fruits and vegetables.
• Wheatgrass contains a full spectrum of vitamins and minerals, including the thirteen essential ones, combined with dozens of trace elements and enzymes.
• Wheatgrass juice is an effective healer because it contains all minerals known to man, and vitamins A, B-complex, C, E, l and K. It is extremely rich in protein, and contains 17 amino acids, the building blocks of protein.
• Massage 6 ounces into the scalp and cover with shower cap for 15 minutes to help eliminate dandruff.
• Wheatgrass juice is great for blood disorders of all kinds.

(note** this made me want wheatgrass, so i just juiced some with 2 green apples and one huge lemon!)

(this wheatgrass info was found here: http://thechalkboardmag.com/50-reasons-to-drink-wheatgrass-everyday )

Acai Benefits:

• rich in plant sterols that provide cardio-protective benefits to our cells. It does this by preventing blood clots, improving overall blood circulation, and relaxing the blood vessels.
• extremely high in anthocyanins, a form of plant antioxidant associated with the ability to lower cholesterol levels in the blood stream
• berries have powerful detoxification capacities in the human body and are a well-known traditional source of dietary fiber
• may prevent the typical irritation associated with respiratory distress.
• One study published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry found that polyphenolic compounds extracted from acai reduced cancer cell proliferation by 56-86%. It is thought that acai’s phytochemcials can stop the process of carcinogenesis on a molecular level, killing off tumorous cells before they multiply. Acai berries are not a cure for cancer; but hopefully more research will examine their benefits and potential role in the fight.
• combat fatigue and exhaustion

enzymes and digestion

(forgive me, i research so much, i don't know where these excerpts are from!)

"Raw food/living food-- an uncooked vegan or vegetarian diet which consists of berries, fruits, vegetables, roots, nuts, flowers, sea vegetables, germinated seeds, sprouts and sometimes raw dairy products for maintenance, not cleansing.

Plants are rich natural sources of antioxidants and other nutrients.

Live food also contains enzymes which act as catalysts for detox and absorption of nutrients. Under naturopathy, juices of certain vegetables and fruits are used as cancer-fighting foods.

Green leaves-- have alkaline minerals, the best fiber, calming and anti-stress properties, are the best chlorophyll source.

Body attempts to adapt to cooked food by increasing the enzyme content of our saliva to begin breaking down the food as quickly as possible. Without proper enzymes to accumulate undigested materials in our system leading to inflammation, stagnation, fatigue and digestive distress.

Saliva of a raw food eater contains far fewer enzymes than that of a person who eats cooked food. This is because raw foods contain enzymes of their own, making salivary enzymes not as strongly needed for digestion. "

your immune system, detoxing and cancer

What Foods Help Your Immune System:

• sesame tahini
• dark chocolate
• pumpkin seeds
• turmeric
• melatonin
• broccoli (has indol-3 carbind)
• aloe vera
• astragalus
• essiac tea
• (any organic fruit and vegetable, especially if they are juiced)
• garlic (stronger and faster acting than any antibiotic on the market)

What Activities Help your Immune System?:
exercising, playing in the sun without chemical-laden sunscreen, swimming in the ocean or sea, sweating, doing things that make you happy, dancing, rebounding.

Where is your Immune System Located?: 
about 80% of your immune system is located in your GUT!! That's right-- stomach, liver and intestines, and colon. Be kind to them!

How to Feel Better When You're Sick: 
starve the parasites in your system that are making you sick!
 Here's how!:

• no alcohol, bread, dairy, vinegars, mushrooms, sugar, refined or processed anything! (that's what feeds the parasites)
• kill the parasites by using pau d'arco, cloves, cinnamon sticks, fennel, bee propolis as herbs in tea or in food. they don't like these things.
• oxygenate blood-- organic olive oil, flax seed oil, seasweeds, and spirulina in organic juices and smoothies
• alkalise your system: water with lemon, or distilled water with lots of lemon!
• boost your immune system: cats claw, echinacea, essiac tea, astragalus, chlorella, (all purify blood, antibacterial properties) maybe you can throw in a cleanse (I have used Life Renewal's My First Cleanse and then Paragone. You just take them as directed and wait to poop. It's not crazy at all. If you want crazy, I can show you pictures, lol)
• build up the good guys-- use a quality probiotic, which allows good bacteria into your gut so it fights off the bad bacteria you may have lost from a less than stellar diet
• detox- cleanses at health food stores, hydrotherapy sessions, sauna sessions (SWEATING!), rebounding (jumping on the trampoline!) 
• always drink a LOT of water to get your bowels moving so everything goes back into sync. you should be able to poop easily 1-2 times PER DAY! if you're not doing this at all, I would recommend a series of hydrotherapy sessions- they're super safe, and they get rid of everything stuck in your intestines/gut.

At this time, I've researched that it's best to up your immune system by fresh, organic produce, juicing, and all natural veggie broths that you make yourself. Nothing from a can.

So, You've Heard of Superfoods, Right?

They raise your immune system AND seratonin production, and LOWER inflammation. (that last part is key!) They also enhance sexuality, cleanse and alkalize the body.

Not too shabby, right?

What products count as superfoods?

• cacao
• goji berries
• maca powder
• hemp
• spirulina
• bee products
• camu berry
• sea vegetables
• medicinal mushrooms

Did you go through hell with chemo the way I did? With all Cancer Patients, or even HEALTHY patients-- detox is key. Aside from pooping, hydrotherapy, colonics and sweating there are so many things you can do! Don't count out intestinal cleanses, as well as cleanses for the liver, gallbladder, parasites and DEFINITELY chemical and heavy metal cleanses!! 

• Change your teeth fillings if their amalgam...mercury!!
• notice the chem trails in our skies? those aren't supposed to be there, they're spraying chemicals on us and nature.
• mercury in fish
• fluoride
• pollution in a heavily populated area-- those are all things cleanses are NECESSARY for.

I want to ask you one question: How many products do you put on you daily? Ready?

• you brush your teeth and gargle with mouthwash-- how many ingredients are in those?
• how many ingredients are in your deodorant?
• how many ingredients in your makeup, each product you use on your face?
• how many ingredients in your perfume/cologne/hairspray/hair products?
• what about hand and body lotions? how many ingredients do you recognize in those?
• did you wash your clothes with DETERGENT and FABRIC SOFTENER and DRYER sheets? What's in those?
• You didn't even drink anything yet- what are you drinking?
• Did you eat yet? What are you eating?
• Do you smoke?
• Do you drink alcohol?
• Did you walk around outside today?
• Ever take medicine? Antibiotics? Over the counter meds?
• What about vaccinations?

Then answer me why "cancer" is now 1 out of every 3 people instead of 1 out of 1000s?? Isn't it weird that right after the development of the "American Medical Association" was born the Pharmaceutical corporations? Isn't it weird that in the early 1900s during this, HYDROTHERAPY MACHINES were pulled OUT OF DOCTORS OFFICES??

How come very few people know what enemas and colonics/hydrotherapy really do?

They don't want you to know.

Isn't it weird that very few people died from c. back then? Do you think it's ok for someone to squish your boobs or lymphnodes until you're in screaming pain, or vaccum your nipples to see if you discharge? How about you stick an arm or a penis in one of those machines and tell me what it does to that body part? Last I heard, no one should be hurting their bodies in barbaric ways, because THAT causes problems!

Answer me, why all the testing to see if you have cancer, and what does it really do to you?

Answer me, do you know all the side effects from each and every medicine you take?

Do you know that cancer is over-diagnosed for statistical improvement so that people like us can feel safe with what the doctors are telling us?

Did you ever hear a doctor say that the chemo being done to your body is curing your cancer? Why do they only use the word RESPONDING? WTF? Because they don't know if you will be cured-- but if you build up your immune system instead of killing it with chemo, and then detox religiously, your body may have a shot.

I know not a lot of people will care to read this, or respond. Those of you who have, thank you. Those of you who think all that stuff up there is just fine, I'm sorry. If you come out of your bubble and research just a little bit you will see that it isn't. 

outta my mind...

there are so many notebooks i've filled with a gaggle of information from medical, spiritual, new age, self help, and history book that it's hard to keep my mouth shut after having gone through hell with "the medical field".

for example-- being stuck home in the snow does not inspire me to sit on the couch and just watch movies all day (even though i do watch movies.) there is a lot of research that i've been doing, ironically even way before i was diagnosed with stage 2 hodgkin's lymphoma.

i've traveled to 25 or so countries. the picture above is me examining "clay baths" in Dominica. i've always been a health nut but i still have no idea what i want to do with my life! i am a certified school counselor, m.s. though.

so this is what i know that i've probably already stated.

get educated-- and sometimes you have to educate yourself.

i know that all of these are good for the lymph system:

• acupuncture
• massage
• any  kind of moving, like dancing!
• water, lots. stay very hydrated!
• detox! any kind you can, even more than one at a time
• yoga
• meditation
• deep breathing
• clay baths
• lymphatic drainage massage
• chiropractic appointments
• ear candling, too much wax in your ear slows down your lymph
• plenty of veggies
• plenty of fruits (both of these raw, especially melon and berries to keep the lymph moving)
• rebounding!
• oil pulling
• loose clothes
• castor oil packs
• herbs
• vitamin c! esp. in iv drips!
• oxygen to the cells
• frankincense oil on the feet and chest
• so much more!

i'm always open to question, and i am thankful that i get to answer all of yours! 

thanks for sticking around, i have so much more to share with you!

~the globetrotting gamine

Wheatgrass Manna and Ann Wigmore

As per 'Get Well Naturally' by Linda Clark:

The use of wheatgrass--

"Dr. Wigmore is quick to point out that wheatgrass should not be construed as a cure for any disease. But by furnishing the body with live minerals, vitamins, trace elements, and chlorophyll, it may be able to repair itself. Judging by the many testimonials which are coming to Dr. Wigmore from all over the United States, this type of nutrition is apparently producing a protective effect on some people.

Iscador the name for a remedy said to be derived from mistletoe. This remedy is being studied by the Society for Cancer Research in Switzerland. The society seeks no material gain, is directed by practicing physicians, and may be contacted by...

Calvacin, an anti-tumor agent extracted from the giant puffball mushroom (Calvatia giganteum). It has been found active against 14 types of animal cancer, as reported in Science, by 13 investigators from Armour and Company, Sloan Kettering Institute, and Michigan State University. According to the science page of the New York Times, January 8th, 1961, which called attention to this discovery, "The substance is not available for treating malignant tumors in humans but may go on clinical trial by mid-1961." Where is this remedy and why is it not availble?



As per wikipedia:

Biography[edit]

Wigmore was born Anna Marie Warapicki in Lithuania on March 4, 1909 to Antanas (1877-1959) and Anna (1882-?) Warapicki. Her father emigrated to America in 1908, settling in Middleboro, Massachusetts, where he first worked as a laborer in a shoe manufacturing company (1920 Fed Census/1924 & 1925 Middleboro city directories) and later as a truck driver for a bakery (1930 Fed Census) during Wigmore's American teen-age years; Wigmore's mother followed five years later, aboard the ship Erlangen, arriving at Ellis Island on June 16, 1913. After World War I, Anna Marie, then 13, and her brother, Mykola, age 15, (both surnames erroneously entered on the ship's passenger log as "Varapickis") accompanied by an uncle, arrived at Ellis Island on December 9, 1922, on the ship USS America, to join their parents and younger sister Helen, born February 19, 1921, in Middleboro. The 1930 Federal Census found Wigmore living in Bristol, Massachusetts and working as a hospital maid under the name of Anna Warap.

On December 25, 1930, Anna Marie (again under the name "Warap" per wedding coverage Stoughton News-Sentinel, 1 Jan 1931) married Everett Arnold Wigmore (1907-1969), of Stoughton, Massachusetts, where they resided during their marriage.^[1] A daughter, Wilma Edith Wigmore, was born on July 9, 1941.^[2] On January 12, 1942, Wigmore became a United States citizen under Certificate No. 5302785, U.S. District Court, Boston, Massachusetts.^[3] The Wigmores later divorced sometime in the 1950ties-60ties. Mr. Wigmore remarried; apparently Ann Wigmore did not.

In 1968, Ann Wigmore co-founded the Hippocrates Health Institute,^[4] a health resort in the United States, with Viktoras Kulvinskas.^[5] Known as "the mother of living foods", she was an early pioneer in the use of wheatgrass juice and living foods for detoxifying and healing the body, mind, and spirit.^[6] She died in Boston on February 16, 1994 of smoke inhalation from a fire at the Ann Wigmore Foundation.^[7] When Ann Wigmore died her Institute was not named the Hippocrates Health Institute. It was called the Ann Wigmore Foundation. Brian Clement owned the Hippocrates Health Institute which he moved from Boston to West Palm Beach, Florida.

In her autobiography, Why Suffer?: How I Overcame Illness & Pain Naturally, Wigmore recalls observing her grandmother using herbs and natural remedies as a child inLithuania.^[8] As an adult, she began researching and testing various whole foods and diet approaches, which she credits with solving her medical problems and changing her life.^[9]

Institutes[edit]

A number of institutes carry on her work by offering educational programs and retreats, home study courses, recipes, books, and other resources. These include:

• Hippocrates Health Institute - branches in West Palm Beach, Florida; and Mayacamas, California, USA
• Ann Wigmore Natural Health Institute, Puerto Rico
• Ann Wigmore Foundation, San Fidel, New Mexico USA
• Creative Health Institute, near Battle Creek, Michigan, USA
• Living Foods Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Living Foods Wellness Center, near Lansing, Michigan, USA
• Optimum Health Institutes of San Diego and Austin, USA
• Mitzpe Alummot, overlooking the Sea of Galilee at Kibbutz Alummot, Israel
• Living Foods Global Center, Valdemarsvik, Sweden

can cancer be prevented?

Continuing on to page 225...

Dr. Harry Rubin, of the Univeristy of California Virology Laboratory, feels that in the war against cancer, it is more practical to build up the body resistance and defenses against cancer than to fight it. (modern Nutrition (June 1961, p.8).

The late Dr. D.T.Quigley, mentioned above, and whose patients had no recurrence of cancer, provided they followed his dietary advice, agreed that the best way to prevent cancer is to build up the body defenses through excellent nutrition. In this way the tissues, cells and organs are kept in such a healthy state that in his opinion, cancer cannot take hold. His dietary advice is to avoid absolutely all refined, synthetic and processed foods. He bans white flour, enriched fortified foods, white sugar and foods with chemical additives. He recommends natural foods, whole foods, raw vegetables and fruits, generous amounts of protein, raw certified (INSTEAD OF PASTEURIZED) milk, whole grains, plus all the known natural vitamins and minerals. Dr. Quigley wrote:

"A return to normal food alone will never bring health up to normal standard. To make up for the past dietary sins, concentrated vitamins should be taken for 6 months to two years, in order that the individual may reach a point where, with his reserve restored, he can carry on with a balanced diet...it is essential that the concentrate contain all the vitamins, both known and unknown....For this reason no synthetic preparation can completely replace the vitamins in which the average person may be deficient. Such foods as yeast, liver and wheat germ are excellent sources...." (The National Malnutrition.)

Dr. J.R.Davidson (now retired), former associate professor of clinial medicine at the University of Manitoba says I believe cancer, a deficiency disease, can be prevented and controlled by a suitable and balanced diet, high in vitamin content.

" I do not pretend to be able to benefit patients in whom the disease has reached advanced or terminal stages, because that does not give any treatment a fair chance. In the patients whom I am treating, however, some of whom have suffered from clearly diagnosed cancers of a severe degree, I can claim some improvement in many cases.

"The diet I prescribe, varied to some extent in each individual case, includes one pint of vegetable juice per day, such as carrot, lettuce and celery juices, prepared freshly, plenty of raw vegetables, particularly peas, beans, carrots, spinach, lettuce, whole wheat bread, supplemented by wheat germ, meat cooked rare, raw milk, and concentrated vitamins of various kinds." (Reprint 189, Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee 3, Wisconsin.)

eat fresh fruits, veggies, and garlic

Continued from my last post...

From Get Well Naturally by Linda Clark (ps.213/214)


"Almost 30 years ago, Maisin succeeded in controlling certain animal tumors with dihdoxymethyl peroxide. Motawei, in Cairo, reported significant results in animals and humans with hydrogen peroxide alone or combined with X-ray. Certain American workers, who have been working along the same lines with H2O2, have caused rapid destruction of tumors in periods as short as seven days.

To develop a far more effective cure it is essential that the catalase peroxide mechanism be exploited in order to determine the most efficient way of over-oxidizing the catalase-deficient cells. A perfect method of doing this is gong to be very difficult to produce because, in certain sites, e.g. the liver, where the catalase concentration of normal cells is high, it will be extremely unlikely that the cancer cells growing there can always be affected when so well buffered by the surrounding catalase.

"Louis Pasteur emphasized that it is far more important to prevent a disease than treat it....The direct treatment of such diseases by chemotherapeutic and antibiotic agents has not been, and never will be, responsible for their elimination....We have a terrible disease which is one of our worst killers; and to stop this we must prevent the tumor starting...it is the only sure way...

"The plan for prevention of cancer should be threefold.
"1, to increase our intake of catalase.
"Catalase, as well as many other enzymes, is destroyed by heat. Civilized man now lives primarily out of the can, the bottle and the package....The agents used to destroy the bacteria invariably destroy the catalase in the food...No other species of animals has such a diet. It would be to everyone's advantage if the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables were to be markedly increased, thus ensuring a far greater intake of catalase and peroxidase. There are numerous references in the literature to the fact that garlic-eating people have an increased resistance to cancer. This is not surprising which one realizes that garlic is very rich in the catalytic systems containing catalase and peroxidase."

a little about chlorophyll...

i should have paid more attention in science class but here goes....

Chlorophyll

• contains a powerful blood builder that's said to increase red blood cells
• improves circulation
• eases inflammation
• oxygenates the body
• counteracts harmful free-radicals

the higher your pH, the more alkaline your system is

alkaline definition as per wikipedia...

The term alkaline diet (also known as the alkaline ash diet, alkaline acid diet, acid ash diet, and the acid alkaline diet) describes a group of loosely related diets based on the belief that certain foods can affect the acidity of bodily fluids, including the urine or blood, and can therefore be used to treat or prevent diseases. Acidity is measured by the pHlevel of the bodily fluids.

heal your gut

do your work

namaste!

the globetrotting gamine