Detox Your Liver with Lemon Cleanser Smoothie

Our bodies do a pretty great job of detoxifying thanks to our livers. But it never hurts to help out by including foods that naturally detoxify our bodies.

Lemon juice aids the liver in flushing out toxins naturally and acts as a diuretic. Ginger aids in digestion and has numerous anti-inflammatory and antioxidant benefits. Two compounds found in high concentration in ginger, gingerol and shoga, may help the entire digestive tract to relief any discomfort from gas, constipation, diarrhea, and bloating.

Turmeric, another natural liver detoxifier and has been used in traditional Eastern medicine for centuries to treat all kinds of maladies.

Heavy Metal Detox Smoothie

This smoothie is not only delicious, it's also perfectly designed to include five key ingredients that work together in synergy to pull heavy metals like mercury, lead, aluminum, nickel, copper, and cadmium out of your organs where they accumulate.

Toxic heavy metals are virtually everywhere, and are present in things we come in contact with every day, such as aluminum cans and aluminum foil, batteries, metal cookware, old paint, and even the foods we eat. For instance, pesticides and herbicides (which are hard to completely avoid even on a strict organic diet), are a common source of heavy metals. As a result, most of us are carrying around heavy metals that have been with us for almost our whole lives and which have burrowed deep inside our tissues.

Unfortunately, it is these “old” metals, the ones that have been lurking in our system for prolonged periods of time, that pose the greatest threat. For example, over time toxic heavy metals can oxidize, causing damage to surrounding tissue and promoting inflammation. They literally poison our bodies, and can inflict damage on virtually every system and organ, including our brain, liver, digestive system, and other parts of our nervous system. Toxic heavy metals put an immense burden on our immune system, leaving us vulnerable to a variety of illnesses. 

While toxins of every kind are harmful, heavy metals pose a unique threat. Not only are they damaging in their own right, they are also a form of neurotoxin (a poison that disrupts nerve function and confuses your immune system). Heavy metal neurotoxins can inflame and irritate our central nervous system (especially our brain), causing multiple symptoms such as memory loss, brain fog, fatigue, and depression. Toxic heavy metals can also promote inflammation in the digestive tract, releasing poisons into our gut as well. As if this isn’t bad enough, heavy metals also serve as a source of food for viruses, bacteria, parasites, and other pathogens in our body.

For example, heavy metals can serve as a feeding ground for Streptococcus A or B, E. coli, C. difficile, H. pylori, and yeast cells. This can create an overgrowth of multiple bacteria in our gut, resulting in a condition known as SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), which is characterized by bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation (or both), and can lead to nutrient deficiencies. Additionally, when viruses such as Epstein-Barr and shingles feed off toxic heavy metals, this can produce symptoms such as tingling, numbness, fatigue, anxiety, heart palpitations, ringing in the ears, dizziness and vertigo, as well as neck pain, knee pain, foot pain, pain in the back of the head, and a variety of other aches and pains that are often attributed to other causes.

It's virtually impossible not to take in a certain amount of these toxic heavy metals in our modern era, so it's vitally important to our health that we get them out before they can wreak further havoc on our health. Thankfully, it's relatively simple to remove them from our organs if we consume the right foods to do so. Adding the following all-star team of foods to your diet and being diligent in your efforts to consume them will go a long way toward ridding your body of heavy metals: 

Hawaiian Spirulina: This edible blue-green algae draws out heavy metals from your brain, central nervous system, and liver, and soaks up heavy metals extracted by barley grass juice extract powder. Take 2 teaspoons mixed in water,coconut water, or juice. 

Barley grass juice extract: prepares the mercury for complete absorption by the spirulina. This nutritive grass has the ability to draw heavy metals out of your spleen, intestinal tract, pancreas, thyroid, and reproductive system. Drink 1-2 teaspoons mixed into coconut water or juice.

Cilantro: Goes deep into hard-to-reach places, extracting metals from yesteryear (so it’s great for that mercury inheritance you’re carrying around!). Blend one cup in a smoothie or juice, or add to salad or guacamole. 

Wild blueberries: Draw heavy metals out of your brain tissue, healing and repairing any gaps created by oxidation when the heavy metals are removed. It is important to use wild blueberries, as they possess unique phytonutrients with special detoxifying capabilities. The potent antioxidants in wild blueberries help reverse any oxidative damage left behind by the heavy metal removal. This is especially important for your brain tissue—in fact, wild blueberries are the most powerful food for halting or in some cases reversing Alzheimer’s and dementia. Eat at least one cup daily. Note: while cultivated blueberries are nutritious, they lack the metal-drawing ability of the wild blueberries.

Atlantic dulse: In addition to mercury, this edible seaweed binds to lead, aluminum, copper, cadmium, and nickel. Unlike other seaweeds, Atlantic dulse is a powerful force for removing mercury on its own. Atlantic dulse goes into deep, hidden places of the digestive tract and gut, seeking out mercury, binding to it, and never releasing it until it leaves the body. Eat two tablespoons of flakes daily, or an equal amount of strips if it’s in whole-leaf form. Note: As it comes from the ocean, if you are concerned about the dulse itself having mercury, be aware that Atlantic sea dulse will not release any mercury it might possess into the body. It holds on to the mercury as it works its way through, and even grabs onto other metals along the way and drives them out as well. Atlantic dulse is a critical part of the team because it can hang out near the finish line (i.e., our colon), waiting for the other foods that have been grabbing on to heavy metals along the way. It serves as emergency backup, helping ensure that all the heavy metals that made it as far as the colon actually leave the body.

Today's smoothie recipe gives you a simple and tasty way to get all of these five foods into your daily diet in just one go. Drink this smoothie daily for optimal benefits.

Timing of Meals are Keys To Burning More Fats and Weight Control

It is a common fact that nowadays people eat selected or prescribed food to control their weight. But one recent study reveals that the time to eat food is more important than the selection of food. Yes, the timing of meals is more relevant to control the weight of the body.

A study reveals the benefit of the timing of meals. The study says that people who eat their meals by early afternoon face very small fluctuations in hunger. It even helps them to burn more fat.

The timing of meals unveils some positive results. Usually, a good number of people eat throughout the day that ultimately gives no significant result.

It is better to eat food earlier in the day. Most of the people maintain a proper time frame to eat their meals. This timing of meals is very necessary to burn extra fat and to avail a sound health.

The timing of meals is essential because it maintains "the circadian rhythm". Actually, the human body has an internal clock which follows the 24-hour cycle. This internal clock system performs some specific works at different times of the day.

It is clear that morning is the best time to maintain the blood sugar control. Even morning is the best session that creates little higher energy to digest food. This is to indicate the importance of the timing of meals.

The timing of meals helps to burn the extra calorie and extra fat. The final result is it decreases the weight.

Clean Your Lungs With The Best Detox Smoothie

This detox smoothie is ideal for smokers. Try it and clean your lungs and your whole body!

If you want to get rid of the toxins in your lungs just make this amazing smoothie and drink it twice a day. It works wonders for smokers and it can even reduce the tobacco addiction.

They key ingredient is banana, which is very rich in potassium, vitamina B6 and vitamina B12. These substances are used by the nervous system to control the heart rate, brain function, and other important processes in your body.

Vitamin B6 and B12 play a major role in reducing the harmful effects of nicotine and potassium will lower the blood pressure. Bananas also give you energy and improve the menthal strenght, memory and concentration.

These fruits are rich in antioxidants and can inhibit the growth of cancer cells. The high amount of fibers in bananas will keep you satiated and will improve the digestion process. Combine bananas with plums, strawberries and papaya and get the best detox juice ever!

Ingredients:

– 1 banana

– a cup of plum pulp

– half a cup of strawberries.

– half a cup of papaya

– one cup of almond milk

– 1 tablespoon of dates

How to prepare it:

Put all the ingredients in a blender and mix very well, until the mixture becomes creamy and smooth. Drink one or two cups a day and the results will show up very quickly. You can drink it in the morning (before breakfast) or after dinner.

Plumps will clean your entire body and will help toxins flush out of your system very fast. Papaya and strawberries contain a considerable amount of vitamin C and will support lung health and protect the body against free radicals. Almond milk will give the smoothie a creamy texture and excellent flavor and will also complement the fruit benefits.

If you want to see real results you must drink this very tasty detox smoothie at least 10 days in a row.

The Fermented Foods That Have the Greatest Impact on Your Microbiome

Eat a certain type of fermented food for one month, to see how it would affect your gut microbiome. Some volunteers were split into three groups, receiving either a commercial probiotic drink, traditionally fermented kefir, or inulin-rich foods such as Jerusalem artichokes, chicory root, onions, garlic and

leek. (Inulin is a prebiotic fiber).

What we found at the end of the study was fascinating. The group consuming the probiotic drink saw a small change in one bacteria type known to be good for weight management, bacteria called lachnospiraceae. However, this change wasn't statistically significant. But the other two groups did see significant changes. The group eating foods rich in prebiotic fiber saw a rise in a type of bacteria known to be good for general gut health — something that is in line with other studies.

The biggest change, however, was in the kefir group. These volunteers saw a rise in a family of bacteria called lactobacillales. We know that some of these bacteria are good for the overall gut health and that they can help conditions such as traveler's diarrhea and lactose intolerance.

Inflammation and Microbiome Also Play a Role in Type 1 Diabetes

The connection between your microbiome and inflammation has also become evident in type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes) which, contrary to type 2 diabetes, is an autoimmune disorder.

The root cause of type 1 diabetes has been a medical mystery, but more recent research suggests the disease may be rooted in gut dysfunction. As reported by Medical News Today:

Individuals with type 1 diabetes show increased intestinal permeability and changes in the microvilli, which are microscopic, finger-like projections from the gut lining. Although the reasons behind these modifications are unclear, errant gut bacteria are currently the prime suspects.

To investigate the impact gut bacteria may have on the development of type 1 diabetes, Italian researchers examined the gut flora and inflammation levels in 54 type 1 diabetics.

All had endoscopies and biopsies taken from their duodenum, the early section of the intestinal tract, and all were on a similar diet at the time of the procedures. The results revealed they had significantly more inflammation than healthy controls and even patients diagnosed with celiac disease.

Their gut flora was also significantly different, with fewer proteobacteria (a group of organisms that includes escherichia, which help produce vitamin K, and salmonella, which is associated with food poisoning) and higher levels of firmicutes (a group of bacteria that include bacilli and streptococcus).

"The next step will be to understand whether the changes in the gut are caused by type 1 diabetes or vice versa. Either way, the study marks a step forward in our understanding of this condition.

We don't know if type 1 diabetes' signature effect on the gut is caused by or the result of the body's own attacks on the pancreas.

By exploring this, we may be able to find new ways to treat the disease by targeting the unique gastrointestinal characteristics of individuals with type 1 diabetes.

Chronic Inflammation Raises Your Risk for Cancer

Reducing inflammation is one important anti-cancer feature of fermented foods. Prolonged inflammation can damage your body's healthy cells and tissue, and weaken your immune system.

And, since your immune system is the first line of defense, a weakened immune system is what allows for diseases such as cancer to get a foothold in the first place; hence, reducing inflammation is a foundational aspect of cancer prevention.

One group of microbes that appear important for maintaining healthy immune function is the clostridial group of microbes.

Ironically enough, this group is related to clostridium difficile, which can cause severe and life-threatening intestinal infections.

But whereas C. difficile prompts chronic inflammation, the clostridial clusters actually help maintain a healthy and well-functioning gut barrier, preventing inflammatory agents from entering your bloodstream. Factors that promote chronic inflammation in your body include but are not limited to:

·       Obesity

·       Smoking

·       Stress

·       Lack of exercise

·       Poor dietary choices

Cultured Raw Milk Does Your Body Good

In cultured dairy, lactobcillus and bifidobacterium are primary sources of probiotics in cultured milk products, and these beneficial bacteria have been shown to induce changes reflecting an increase in carbohydrate metabolism.

Both of these bacteria also facilitate excretion of toxins such as Bisphenol A (BPA), and lactobacillus strains in particular may help prevent heavy metal toxicity by binding and excreting these metals.

They've even been shown to reduce the toxicity of heterocyclic aromatic amines (HCA) — cancer causing compounds found in charred meats.

Kimchi (a Korean fermented cabbage dish) contains probiotics shown to help with the detoxification of organophosphorus pesticides. It also breaks down sodium nitrate, a food preservative associated with increased cancer risk.