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Is Lemon Water Good For Weight Loss

I always say that, don’t I? Maybe I should say something different when I do my videos. Now, what are we talking about? Is lemon water good for weight loss? Everybody wants to talk about weight loss. I don’t think we need to look at a loss, we need to look at management. Weight management. So weight loss implies that you’ve got something you’ve got to get rid of, okay? Then why did you get it in the first place? Because now you’ve got to get rid of it, all right? It’s not like money. When you have a lot of money, I mean, you don’t want to get rid of it really quick, do you? But when it comes to weight, it’s going to go like that. Then why gain in the first place? And if you are gaining, why not just observe the fact that you’re gaining and think, “What the hell am I doing? I’ve gained five pounds in the last two months.” You know what I mean? It makes sense, doesn’t it?

Let’s just say it was your bank account, and the money was disappearing really quick. You’d want to know where’s this money going? Let’s put a plug to it. A plug in it. Okay, if we look at weight, inversely, it’s going up, we don’t tend to look at that. We just don’t worry. We end up like our president, president Trump, 73 years age, borderline obese without disease, and that’s how a lot of 73 year olds end up, okay? Lemon water. Is it really going to make a difference? Really?

If you’ve had a car crash and you got three broken bones, you think Band-Aids are really going to help to repair the broken bones? Probably not. You might need a bit more than a Band-Aid. You probably need a bit more than a glass of lemon water here and there to lose weight. So try not to see these sorts of things as a way to lose weight. Lemon water stimulates you in many ways. It’s cleansing, it helps to keep the stomach and small intestine clear, it stimulates the appetite, it’s great for reversing hypochlorhydria, or low acid, it’s also antiparasitic. If you go to Google, you’ll see that there are various compounds in lemon that parasites detest, but the cleansing aspect I like, the bitterness, the effect that it helps to stimulate the release of bile flow from the gallbladder, which is fantastic for anyone with a bowel problem.

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So citrus form a very good part of the diet. As long as you don’t eat 12 oranges a day or… People do dumb things like this, but we grow about 30 citrus trees in our front yard. I love citrus, especially lemons and limes, but also the blood oranges, the kumquats, the mandarins. There are so many different types of citrus you can grow. There’s another citrus called Buddha’s hand, which is a really weird looking orange with sort of like… A friend of mine has one of these trees. It’s the most unusual looking citrus. But when you pick one of these fruits and put it in the lounge room, the whole house smells of this wonderful citrus aroma, which is, guess what? Antibacterial, antiviral. Isn’t that amazing? Anyway I got a bit off track here.

Lemon water in the morning when you wake up. You wake up, go to the kitchen, you get about 10 ounces of water. You squeeze the juice of half a lemon. Put that in there. Fantastic. Okay? Especially good if you’ve had your gallbladder out, especially good if you’ve got any kind of bowel problem. Candida patients will benefit from it, but weight loss, not sure. Maybe if you did it once or twice a day, longterm, it may have some effect. But if you want the weight to be lost, you need not to gain it in the first place. Isn’t it funny? And if you have gained it, as I’ve mentioned in previous videos, the best way to lose the weight is to watch what goes in here, especially how much goes in here, and also how much that the legs are moving, how much you’re walking. Movement and food. So if you can observe that, those two basic things, then I don’t care what you really drink. It’s not going to make much differences, is it? Thanks for tuning in.

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How Dangerous Is Mold On Foods

I have to apologize about my videos, which were put up yesterday, because I’d put up normally between eight to 10 videos per week, generally midweek, they get loaded up, but the sound was dead on this one. I think that my microphone developed COVID-19 because I had to bin it, got sick, threw it out. Got a new one and it’s good.

What do you think of Donald Trump taking hydroxychloroquine for COVID? I mean, makes you wonder doesn’t it? Person running a country, taking a medication with serious side effects, who’s borderline obese with arterial plaquing and… Yeah, I’ll leave it at that, but you can see what’s going to happen. I mean, it looks like another Titanic coming up, I’d say.

Right, we’re going to talk about mold on foods today. How dangerous is mold on foods? Many patients, for so long, have spoken to me about this issue. Being concerned about mold on food and throwing food in the bin and all this kind of stuff. So let’s talk a bit about that.

There are so many types of mold. You have thousands and thousands of types of molds. Some molds are highly beneficial. In fact, they’re used quite a lot. For example, there’s a particular type of penicillium. I think there’s one called penicillium roqueforti. And if you look at Roquefort cheese or the blue cheese, okay, that uses this particular penicillin mold to make the cheese blue and moldy. So Camembert, Brie and a lot of these softer cheeses actually use the penicillium molds to make them like that. Now, if you put the penicillium roqueforti mold on a hard cheese or a different type of cheese, you’ll spoil the cheese. You’ll ruin it.

Now, what about other hard cheeses? Do you have to bin all cheeses when they get mold on them? No, you don’t. Do what I do. Get the cheese slicer. If you ever see any mold on cheese, hard cheese, we’re not talking the soft cheeses because they are moldy, right? Just get your cheese slicer, whip the mold off it then bin it. Because the mold hyphae or spores don’t penetrate deep into hard surfaces like cheese, like hard cheeses, for example. In soft cheeses, they do, but they’re meant to be in there, particularly the blue.

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But what about a tomato? Or a cucumber or a food that’s high in water with mold on it? In the bin. Bin it. You should not have tomatoes with mold on them. This is the thing when you grow produce… Because I grow, of course, most of my own vegetables and fruits, but with tomatoes, I’ve never grown a tomato myself, picked it, had it inside and had mold on it.

Hydroponic ones are full of water. They’re pumped full of water, you’ll find the hydroponic tomatoes. I hate them. They don’t even taste like a tomato. They’re gross. If I ever eat a salad somewhere I can taste right away whether it’s a hydroponically grown food or it’s a normally grown food. The taste is just not there with hydro.

Anyway, getting off track. Soft foods, vegetables and fruits like peaches and apricots for example, if you’ve got citrus, anything with mold like that, you’re probably better off to throw it in the trash can. But if it’s a hard vegetable or a harder kind of fruit, it’s got a spot on it… For example, yesterday we harvested quite a few quinces, like a type of pear off the tree. Because my partner likes to make all sorts of things with quince. Now a couple of them, a couple of the large fruit had fallen off the tree and caught in the fork of the tree and had developed a Brown spot. So mold started growing in there. So, instead of throwing that whole massive big quince in the trash can, we just cut the moldy piece right off and make sure there’s a good half inch or more of clean pear or quince and we reject the rest. It’s common sense.

So you don’t have to throw all food away with mold on, okay. Not at all. I prefer to eat fruits, particularly when they’re ripe. And in fact sometimes quite ripe, the flavor’s really there. Nature’s intended us to eat the food in that particular condition. You cannot ever compare tree ripened stuff in a fruit ever with stuff that you buy in the shop.

And also I find that when it ripens really well, it tends to really, really give you not just a good flavor experience, but it’s full of nutrition there as well, but the birds will get it. And as soon as a bird picks a little hole in, for example, a peach or an apricot, you got a wound there, you can get bacteria and mold in there, it’s going to get sick. Yeah, you got to be careful. But don’t throw food away necessarily with mold on it. Not all molds are bad.

There’s an Aspergillus oryzae mold, for example, that’s used in inoculation of soy products. So some soy products can get a beneficial mold growing in them as well.

So let’s look at some, for example, fermented foods, cultured foods. There’s all sorts of bacteria and molds in these foods. We need these things in our body. I’ll do a video later on which I’d like you to watch, about apples, why eating the whole apple is so good. Because they’ve discovered over 1,700 types of bacteria in and on that apple, thousands of bacteria. We need those good bacteria in our gut.

So when you start peeling food and chopping all the seeds out and taking this and that out, and just have a tiny little piece of flesh you’re missing out, you’re really missing out. Talk about it in another video.

So back to molds, don’t chuck all the food out.

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Is Turmeric Any Good For SIBO

Is turmeric any good for SIBO? Well, turmeric’s a spice, which is fantastic. It’s been used for so many conditions. If you go to Google and do some Googling, some searching on studies on tumeric and IBS tumeric, and Crohn’s disease, turmeric and colitis, there’s definitely a link there with turmeric affecting people positively.

But what I find interesting is when people read these sort of things, so they straight away and go to an Asian grocery store or the supermarket. They’ll buy a pound of tumeric, they’ll start taking tablespoons of it every day, thinking it’s going to cure their disease. It doesn’t work like that. Okay? You can’t put large amounts of tumeric into your diet and expect it to work like that. Small amounts regularly in the diet, use it in cooking. It certainly works. But remember, your body, you got to get used to this spice. All right? Put it in there slowly, and build up the quantity. Okay?

Unless you’ve grown accustomed to tumeric or had this really in your family, traditionally, for a long time, you’re not really going to take to it that well. Most people I speak to who start taking tumeric up in their diet, beginning to take it, take too much and get all kinds of bowel problems as a result. So I’m saying start off with a very small amount and have it every now and then, and see how it goes. All right?

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Turmeric and ginger belong to the same family. I will often recommend both of these interchangeably to be used, up to one to two teaspoons per day, in severe conditions like rheumatoid arthritis or Crohn’s disease. These are like bad autoimmune conditions with significant pain levels. So I not care so much about the bowel in this case, the effects of turmeric on it, but more of the anti-inflammatory effects. And it definitely works, if you take it regularly, regularly, regularly. There are many ways you can take tumeric. Some people say you need to add a bit of fat compound with it, for it to work better.

If you think about tumeric, it has always been traditionally used in curries and cooking, involving oils and coconut oil and ghee and things like that. So, it probably works better with fat, and you can certainly make up nice lentil dishes. The tumeric, it partners well with coriander and other spices, mixed by spices for sure.

But yeah, the question is, is it good for SIBO? I would say absolutely. But remember incorporate small amounts in your diet to get that nice low grade anti-inflammatory effect. Small amounts of tumeric regularly in the diet purportedly work as good as ibuprofen, in terms of their ability to reduce inflammation in the body. Turmeric is not going to do so much for the bacteria in there, but it’s certainly going to help to bolster up a certain immune aspects in the small intestine. So, but yeah, I would say it’s definitely a good product to incorporate in your diet if you have got SIBO.

 

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Do Anti Diarhhea Pills Work Do Over The Counter Constipation Pills Work

Do antidiarrhea pills work? Do over the counter constipation pills work? Well, any pills work to a degree, of course, but these things are really sort of emergency measures. I can understand people taking antidiarrhea kind of pills if they’re flying, they’re traveling or they’ve been to a country, they picked up a parasite and they got to get home. But these are not things you want to rely on. You don’t want to rely on these things.

Like over the counter constipation pills. These kind of pills remind me of loan sharks, of people lending you 500 bucks for like 1000% interest kind of thing. So you’ve got to pay everything back and more so. And then once you get hooked into these loan sharks, basically they’re hanging around you the whole time wanting to give you money and trying to extort you. And these medications are similar. Once you rely on them, okay, they’ll hold you accountable. And then you’ll have to take more and more pills to get the same kind of action. And after a while these pills won’t even work anymore. You can be loading yourself up with medications to stop either diarrhea or constipation, and then they’ll slowly be less effective and effective to the point where they’re not working anymore.

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So you can’t really rely on these things long term. But short term, maybe for a couple of days or a week. Okay? But some patients I’ve seen in the past will take a constipation pill sometimes for years and years and years on end, constantly they’ll take these pills. It’s not the way to live your life. You can’t live your life around a bunch of pills to increase or decrease symptoms. When you get to that stage, that’s often the time when you’ll come to see somebody like me, or a chiropractic doctor or a naturopathic doctor, or someone like that. And say, “Help, I really need a hand here. There’s something wrong.” And that’s when you become a difficult patient because you become so reliant on these drugs that you can’t really want to cut them back anymore. So what you’re trying to do is you’re trying to jump onto another ship in the middle of the ocean, but it’s not that easy to do. Okay?

So you have to very slowly come off these things because your gut will get used to these medications. So I never recommend using medications like this any longer than one or two weeks, and preferably then get off them. They do work, but they’re bad to rely on. Remember the loan shark. If you want to loan 50 bucks from your brother or mother or something, okay. But when it comes to slightly larger amounts from loan sharks, you’re going to pay the price. Same with these things, you’ll pay the price. So best probably not to get started on them in the first place. And then work out other natural solutions for constipation or diarrhea, and there are plenty on this channel. I talk a lot about constipation. So check out some of my videos on constipation. Do a search for that or look for the playlist and you’ll certainly find them. All right?

 

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Tingling Or Pinns And Needles In Hands And Feet, What Does This Mean

Tingling, or pins and needles, in feet and hands. What the heck does this mean? Many people comment on getting sensations in the feet and hands. These are called neuropathies. They can affect you quite commonly. I mean, neuropathy is not an uncommon thing. You’ll find if you’re lying on your hand, lying in bed, you might get some sensations in your foot. This is a type of neuropathy. But the one I think that we’re really talking about, the most common one, is probably diabetic neuropathy, which I think about 30 to 40% of all cases of people going to a doctor complaining of tingling hands and feet turns out to be diabetes.

It’s a symptom, but there are so many conditions that can cause this. I mean, it could be spinal problems. It could be what we call subluxations of the spine, in the neck, in the thoracic spine, in the lumbar spine, and these can cause problems with your peripheral nerves, of course. You can have vitamin deficiencies, especially things like Vitamin E, Vitamin B1, B2, B3, B6, B12. These Bs, in particular, are very important for proper nerve function. They could be magnesium problems. It could be sodium or potassium problems. So blood tests will need to be done. Physical exams will need to be done. You’ll need to be checked out carefully.

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It could be even a remote possibility it’s multiple sclerosis in some of the beginning phases, especially if you live in the temperate zones of the world, not so much the tropics. It could be Guillian-Barre Syndrome. It could be a viral condition affecting you. I mean, there are so many conditions that can cause tingling and numbness. So this definitely needs medical attention, especially if it’s been going on for several weeks. You need to be checked out. It could be a medication you’re on. There’s no one easy answer for what the tingling, pins and needles are. A friend of mine, for example, just recently had his hands operated on. He’s an electrician and he had carpal tunnel syndrome. I kept telling him, “Look, let’s give you some Vitamin B6, three, 400 milligrams for a few weeks. That will help reduce the fluid, which is entrapping that carpal tunnel.”

He didn’t want to have a bar of it, he just wanted the operation, get it over and done with. Some people are like that, but I’ve worked with many people with carpal tunnel when I practiced rurally out in the country for Wallangarra Meatworks, and I saw many people who suffered from this particular condition, carpal tunnel, and it definitely response well to high dose Vitamin B6. Yeah, if you’ve got tingling, or pins and needles, you need to get checked out, and the cause has to be established. And then a treatment can come into place.