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The amazing benefits of fasting..

Hey Warriors.
Happy Monday! I hope you all enjoyed last blog’s excerpt all about alkalized water and cellular hydration!  If you missed it, don’t worry it’s still on my website, and you can learn more here:  http://drrachelhamel.kangendemo.com/
If you would like to attend the free class and get two week’s free water(local), to learn more text ZOOM to 858-208-8151 for the next upcoming class! I can’t tell you ENOUGH about this amazing water, but we are moving onto another topic today…

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This week we are going to be talking about fasting!

Fasting has been a part of our spiritual and physical awareness for thousands of years, but one could argue that the need for fasting has never been so great as it is today! Even if your diet is excellent, the food, water, and air you consume is contaminated with chemicals and endocrine disruptors that speed up your body’s rate of injury and disrepair. I know, but it’s true we live in a toxic soup…The toxicity we have produced and what we continue to consume is really why we are seeing such a decline in health.

Fasting allows you to recoup a deeper reservoir of coping mechanisms at the cellular level to inspire detoxification, recovery of the metabolic system, and to repair pathways that are intrinsic to your physical and emotional wellbeing.

In particular we will be talking about something called intermittent fasting. Why intermittent? Well because this effects the brain and nervous system the most!  Let me explain what intermittent means.  It means fasting for subsequent hours such as stopping eating at 8PM and not eating anything again till 12PM.  This is a 16 hour fast.  You then eating in the 8 hour window. When we allow our body to take a break from digesting food for these intermittent times, it allows our body to go through a process of autophagy.  Autophagy is a process we go through naturally in our body that old cells die and are recycled, like our body cleaning house.  When this system is disrupted, it has been shown to create neurodegeneration. Short term fasting has been shown in research to dramatically upregulate neuronal autophagy.  In another mouse study, intermittent fasting was shown to improve cognitive function, brain structure, and neuroplasticity, which is fancy-speak for the brain’s ability to reorganize and rebuild itself.

Fasting has also been shown to help weight loss, reduce inflammation and benefit cancer patients to name a few…

Fasting is defined as consuming only plain water, or black coffee, or unsweetened tea.
Intermittent fasting works best when combined with a low carb-high fat diet of real, whole foods. For some that may have difficulty digesting fats, we need to look into their enzymes and energy pathways to make sure they can break down cholesterol effectively, or else they will get gallbladder pain/stagnation or what they call the “keto flu”. We will need to supplement as needed to make sure increasing good fats is something they can handle. That’s why working with a health professional can be really helpful to know what is personalized for you and what is safe.

The fasting timeline is one that will gradually develop.  At first you may not be able to last past 9AM if you are accustomed to eating breakfast.  This is where having tea/coffee with a good fat source like my MCT oil come in handy!  (link on my website). But, don’t beat yourself up.  If you only made it to 9AM, that is fine!  You will gradually be able to last longer and longer the more your body gets used to fasting and the more good fats you incorporate into your diet for fuel source.  

The reason I mainly talk about intermittent fasting, is because this is generally what I find the most compliance with individuals.  Patients are more cooperative when they have a set schedule and about an 8 hour window to per day to consume their good quality whole foods.  Having someone fast for an entire day can be another feat.

At no point are you starving during a fast. You are mobilizing the average reservoir of 30,000 to 100,000 excess calories that are stored in the fat in your liver, abdominal fat, and peripheral fat – typically in that order. Even if your body is at the lowest end of the normal curve of ideal body weight, the body still holds 15-25% of its weight in central and peripheral fat storage.

On the other side of the fast is a healthier you. During the fast you have the opportunity to experience rest and reset for your immune system, mind, and spirit. This is not always comfortable on your initial attempts. Your gut-brain axis has never rested like this, invasive thoughts, cravings, self-doubt, emotional lability are all common in those first fasts.

The more often you fast there will be less trepidation, and it will be easier to sustain wellness and recognize milestones for each subsequent fast.

 

Intermittent fasting works the best when you can schedule around the same time every day, so usually week days are better.  You might try with 3 days a week doing a 16 hour fast (or working up to it).  You may stay at this, or switch to doing it everyday like me. 

I do however suggest that some individuals do an actual water fast every now and then.  Why?  Well your small intestine for instance regenerates itself in three days.  Often times if there is a lot of inflammation, then fasting can really help this person’s ability to get rid of dead old tissue and regenerate new. 

We also know that spiritually: fasting improves our mental clarity.  When you control your mind over food, you control your flesh so to speak. Fasting allows us to develop silent moments  to hear from our intrinsic intelligence. Researchers have linked fasting to an increased level of vigilance and mood improvement, sometimes euphoria.  Fasting mice have found to produce as much as 5 times the amount of endogenous opiates in just 24 to 48 hours of fasting!  Intermittent fasting also causes an increase in a molecule known as BDNF (brain-derivated neurotrophic factor) which plays a role in important aspects of brain function relating to mood and cognitive function such as regulating serotonin metabolism, improving synaptic plasticity, and increasing the brain’s ability to resist aging.

Another thought is that since fasting puts the body into a state of ketosis — in which the body is burning molecules known as ketone bodies rather than glucose — the ketone bodies themselves may play a role in improving mental clarity and mood, decreasing pain, and promoting neuronal protection against hypoglycemia and different types of brain damage.

After you are finished with your fast, it is best to break your fast (breakfast ;))  with a good source of fat or whole food.  If you break it straight with a carbohydrate you may not see as great of a benefit than if you continue with ketosis while consuming more good fats.  This doesn’t mean eating a bunch of dairy.. I’m really not on board with the amount of dairy most “keto” people consume.  There are other great sources of good fats like organic nuts, kefir, eggs, Coconut oil, grass fed meats and others.

Please note: If you are new to fasting, have pre existing medical conditions or are on medications, you should consult your personal healthcare provider before you begin multi-day fasting. IT is not recommended for children, for some people with diabetes or other issues with blood sugar, or for pregnant women.

 

Unlike long chain triglycerides, which must first bond with bile and cholesterol prior to being utilized as an energy source by the body, the medium chain triglycerides found in coconut oil can be metabolized directly by the liver into the very highest quality units of cellular energy available, called alpha-keto acids.

The byproduct of this process results in the formation of another compound, called a 1-monoglyceride. Depending on the specific medium chain triglyceride being metabolized, the resulting 1-monoglyceride will exert a varying degree of antifungal, antiviral, antiparasitic, or antibacterial influence in the body.

Although it is well suited for cellular energy applications, the fatty acid profile of coconut oil leaves some “room for improvement” in regard to the 1-monoglyceride byproducts that it creates.

To address this need, Dr Hamel’s MCT Super Blend was developed. With over 4 times as much capric acid, and over 3 times as much caprylic and caproic acid as would be found in virgin coconut oil, Dr. Hamel’s Super Blend is vastly superior in regard to antifungal and antiviral applications. With almost 20% lauric acid, there will be ample quantities of monolaurin to exert its antibacterial influence.

Although this oil is not indicated for use as a cooking oil, it does happen to be perfect for adding to hot foods or beverages, or into cold foods as well, such as smoothies or salad dressings. It can be taken with food, or on an empty stomach, and though a person cannot eat too many medium chain triglycerides, a person can
eat too many too quickly. This will cause a sensation of transient nausea, or perhaps even diarrhea. If this should occur, reduce the amount being taken at one time and spread the target dose out over the course of the day. A nice starting point might be three Tablespoons a day (one Tbsp applied to each meal).

Get yours here:
https://drrachelhamel-com.3dcartstores.com/Dr-Hamels-MCT-Super-Blend_p_12.html

 

THat is all for now.

 

Have a happy and healthy week.

 

 

Dr. Hamel

 

Disease doesn’t end health, it’s the collapse of health that welcomes in disease.

Disease doesn’t end health, it’s the collapse of health that welcomes in disease.

Hey Warriors.
Happy Monday!  I know I just did a blog last week, but I will be gone next weekend so I thought I’d do 2 in a row!  Also… We’ve got an awesome topic today. It’s been a difficult 2020, hasn’t it?
Although we seemed to be out of the hole as far as re-opening up California, it seems as though another “wind” of cases has “emerged”, and we are looking at going back again.  If you just started following me, welcome,  if you have been with me then you know this is and has never been about a virus, but a matter of control. The numbers are not providing ANY information to close down again, but here we are feeling powerless.
Some of you as well, have trouble speaking to other people or family members about what is really going on here, and have just given up. 

I get it, and I don’t blame you.  You see, the way the medical system is set up and has been taught has been totally backwards.  And for them to even catch up to current medical researched science is going to take many years.  But, don’t just take it from me.  I watched an interview this week that was extremely fitting and basically said all that I would have said from a medical doctor named Zach Bush.  He was a guest speaker on the show LondonReal, which is an awesome source for non media tampering information.

The video was rather long, and I have a feeling that most will never take the time to watch a two hour episode, even though it could change our planet.  If you watched it, amazing!  If not, I’m going to summarize some main points here because I really believe that everyone should know.
And again, this is not from me, it’s from a well known triple board certified doctor.  His information is why many turn to us chiropractors for help, because our medical system is just not correct.  Despite ridicule and harshness, we’ve had to help fill that gap where medical doctors either couldn’t or weren’t willing.  Thankfully, more are rising..

So let’s dive in. 

The interview first begins with Dr. Bush describing why the world is in the state that it is because we have biologically lost the capability to produce life, as he related it to the old Star Trek Movies. You’ve got captain Kirk landing on these distant planets and they’re trying to decide if this is habitable to life.  It’s a perfectly set up planet with carbon soil and microbe species. We see the underpinnings of that collapse and it is because we are disrupting the carbon soil systems, the water and the air that we breathe and on this trajectory captain Kirk lands a few 100 years and finds a planet that’s no longer habitable by not just humans but any large biology.  I think that that we have a hard time imagining what it looks like to get from now to that point of complete collapse(like captain kirk witnessed) and this pandemic is a very minor ripple effect like a little early tremor in the collapse of the species.  A collapse in the ability to produce life because of our environment…

Dr. Bush is on the forefront of microbiome (a mass amount of colonies of fungi, bacteria in your gut) genomics, and has been for the past ten years. He does state additionally, this research is not just himself but a huge list of researchers and scientists that back him up. Before ten years ago, the mentality of the science community including himself at that time was that we are here to stamp out disease, but the idea of healthy living is remote and feels new-agey or somehow like fake science and so that’s an extraordinary mistake we made in medical education over the last 100 years was to get the opportunity to create such resilient health that we would be resistant to disease. ( THIS IS MY GOAL Y’ALL! -Dr Hamel)

Instead we focused all of our trillions of dollars on research and development, trillions of hours of manpower research and ingenuity and intuition on disease management instead of health, and so the result is what you see around you.  The reason the dialogue looks like it is in the government for The Who and CDC you is  part of this big machine of fear that we created as physicians as well, and so as physicians and scientists we have created in the fight against cancer and the fear of bacterial infections, the fear of viral infections when in fact none of that’s really underpinned by the current science!
Science has radically changed in the last 20 years and it hasn’t trickled down into the mindset of physicians scientists and especially the clinicians yet and so generally we expect that take 20 to 30 years to make a transition. This has been such a radical shift that’s come through our understanding of genomics in our ability to look at genomic sequencing of nature that we’re starting to realize we’re wrong and not as the center of the universe.

The speaker then asked well why China?
You will not find a disruption of soil, water and air anywhere faster than central China. China has managed to adopt western farming practices that has accelerated the death of soil worse than anywhere else. Beijing and all of its energy and transportation has pushed enormous amounts of air pollution down and you have this perfect toxic stew with the largest pork antibiotic production system in the world. When you do this, the response is adaptation, and biology goes into an explosive effort to find loopholes to find alternative biologic pathways to avoid toxicity to try not to go extinct and so in an execution of and you’re going to see an explosion of genetic intelligence variance coming out of all niches of biology to create adaptation for resilient recovery from an extinction event.  That’s what we’ve seen 5 big extinction events on the planet in the past and every time they happen we come back as a planet more diverse more biologically intelligent because of the viral explosion of intelligence that happens around us in extinction of that and so this coronavirus and any naturally occurring virus is actually an adaptation event towards the next opportunity for explosion of life on earth.

Speaker:  How can the coronavirus just become present?

THIS IS MY FAVORITE PART!
First, we need a little bit of background what is a virus?  First, a virus is not a living organism and so we have severely miscategorized viruses as physicians and scientists as part of the microbiome. This microscopic life is an extraordinary universe, 5 million species of just fungi it’s just like this extraordinary explosion of adaptation within the fungal Kingdom alone. The viruses are not alive and therefore should not be categorized as far as I’m concerned in the microbiome because they’re not living organisms they are a secretion of bacteria and are multi cellular organisms and so if they come from bacteria we call them bacteriophages but it’s just a virus. Coming out of a human system for example or another mammal we call them viruses but these are genetic secretions of living cells that don’t pass any life capacity within that package of information it’s literally a communication tool for the genome to proliferate to create adaptation and biodiversity and so it is the device it is the tool for life to quickly adapt and shift into a more intelligent life form and so a virus is a package of genetic information that’s targeted. This is the really fascinating thing, this isn’t like just like using genetic information, it’s wrapped up just like a smart bomb to deliver the information right to the right place where it’s most needed and in the case of coronavirus which has been around with us for documented for over 740 years, it’s a very common part of the human experience causing many of the common colds we experience.

When an organism in great stress has the need for an adaptation it can take something like a coronavirus and can misspell the genetic information within that and the misspelling will accelerate as the stress increases and so it does this by actually intentionally having slightly sloppy machinery or repeating the genetic information within the viral genome.  The virome has this extensive genomic collection of information starts to misspell many of those will be irrelevant just misspellings and will go on to do nothing.  Occasionally you’ll see an up regulation of function or an important structural adaptation represented in that genomic information and therefore when it is enters an organism like a human we take it into our genomics and we start to proliferate it out there to expand that information screen. As we saw with RONA, the vast majority of viruses stay asymptomatic with almost all individuals that get it and then a very small section of people will develop severe symptoms and diseases.

Many scientists think of viruses like Trojan horses that come in and take over the mechanisms of our human cells to proliferate. It’s nowhere near that reality, if that was true we would have never existed because there are 10000000000000000000000000000000 viruses in the air that we breathe (visual 10,000,000 times more viruses in the air than our stars in the entire universe) and so then we look into the soils and we find another 10 to the 31 viruses there and then we look into the ocean water and we find another 10 to 31 viruses there! We are so surrounded by this genetic information that if it actually behaved such that every time it touched us it would take over our machinery and just for its own good start to proliferate, we would never exist. We are the result of viruses we are not being attacked by viruses and when I say that that’s quite literal.

When you look at the recent genomic sequencing we’re now getting good at understanding which parts of our DNA were inserted directly by viruses and we are now have counted up to more than 50% of the human  genes resulting from direct viral updates, and at least 10% of our genes are direct viral updates from retroviruses like HIV. Over the last 100 years we have demonized the very mechanisms by which we have become real and that’s a terrifying mistake to make as when your paradigm is so reversed as a scientist that you were taught to fear an attack the very things that built you, you are now going to engineer your extinction!

We have done that through the advent of antimicrobials, antivirals, anti-fungals and the like.
He then said:   There’s many doctors listening right now who are saying well that’s that’s gotta be BS because I  see patients dying of pneumonia and if I give them an antibiotic they improve. This is where we again fail to see the big picture and we start to measure outcomes by two weeks instead of two years or 20 years in these individuals. We now know that a single course of antibiotics undermines human biology immediately as we destroy the fabric of the organic soil of our microbiome a single course of antibiotics is now been documented to increase your risk of major depression in the next 12 months by 17% your risk of major anxiety disorder by 24% if you get 2 courses of antibiotics in the next year over a 12 month period your risk of major depression event is now 44% your risk of a massive anxiety disorder is 52%. It’s this radical undermining of our brain and our neurologic function when we just take an antibiotic but more terrifyingly if you look at the United States you can look at the antibiotic prescription rate per state within the United States and show a perfect correlation to the risk of death from cancer in those states so the higher the rate of antibiotic prescription the more likely you die from cancer.

The soil within our gut is actually the mechanism by which we produce health and when we undermine the soil the plant life dies and in this case that happens to be us. 

If you look at your stool, that is the ultimate compost within you.  When you flush the toilette, you just ate a few hours ago, and now it looks like soil.  You are a composting machine for the microbial intelligence within you.  Just as you put compost into your garden to make it more abundant we forget about our own, and are just given medication and supplements to manage diseases that are manifesting from a lack of soil health.  And we destroy the soils of the earth which causes our soils to be lacking through chemicals and pesticides.

Okay guys, that was just the first 25 minutes!!!

I’m just going to post a little bit more here because this next points were also SO GOOD!

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The power has definitely been taken away from the individual to pursue health!  PREACH!

Marbled halls and white coats and stethoscopes and all the fancy trappings of MRI machines and CT scans and billions of dollars of laboratories we give the impression we know what is going on and the reality is we have no clue because we have been going down this long wrong path and believing that the human system is this isolated system that has to fight off infections and most importantly it needs an immune system to kill all microorganisms around it so that it doesn’t die.  

We don’t need infections, that is the mentality that is out there both in the position of the scientists and the public still and yet we know as of 30 years ago so that humans can’t survive unless microorganisms within it are providing massive biodiversity. In the last 15 years it’s been mind blowing to realize that’s not isolated to our gut,  in fact we have bacteria/fungi/viruses teaming in every single organ of our body to produce health.

When we start to slip into disease, the microbiome goes into an adaptation stress response system to try to recover our health!  Alzheimer’s brains when you section those and you look, the most damaged part of the brain what has come to help is a yeast form of candida glabrata that has now shifted to a mycelial like fungal hyphae form that is built a network of mycelial like root system around the damaged portion of the brain to try to bring nutrients and fuel resource the damaged area brain.  We have feared yeast that we are terrified in hospital systems trying to eradicate all, then finding out that that’s actually was trying to help recover the brain of this Alzheimer’s patient as they start to decline.
We’ve now seen that in breast cancer the bacteria that shows up to try to recover the health of the breast cancer is mycobacterium radio tolerance and that species of bacteria is able to thrive in the acidic environment around the breast cancer and it’s able to try to bring again nutrients and fuel production and communication into that space. We now know that the more sterile you make that patient, the faster that woman will have metastatic cancer and so as you undermined not just the guts soils but the soils that are within us.

We keep seeing in the hospital for example, examples of here’s an infection if I don’t treat that infection this patient is going to die and so we forget then to back up and say the reason that patient has an infection is because we so damaged the soil system but there’s now a weed like growth of a couple of organisms and we’re going to go in and try to wipe out the weeds.  This response is going to make more and more aggressive weeds and more and more drug resistant weeds and that’s of course exactly what I see now when I’m working with farmers.   Their soil systems when I go out into a farm on a conventional landscape it’s not unusual for us to see is roundup resistant weeds that are taking over farms, they can be the size of Christmas trees these weeds with a trunk, they’ve been so forced into this extreme effort to recover the biology of this dying soil system as soon as you stop trying to kill them one year later that soil no longer has that weed present, the need for that weed went away because the soil began to recover its ecosystem. If in our damage control we need a moment of antibiotics we need to instead of saying now you’re better from your pneumonia we need to say we just made things worse and you’re going to come back next year or in a few months with something much worse and unfortunately that answer is we just wiped out your microbiome again and so right now as you leave the hospital we are going to put you on that three month journey into microbiome diversification so we would like you to change and modify your daily behavior so that the nature is starting to bring more and more microbial diversity into your life everyday. (WOW WOULDN’T THAT BE THE DAY!)

If that was the discharge instructions from the hospital we would stop the recidivism that we see in medicine, the same way we see it in prisons because we don’t fix the underlying cause of socio economic collapse, lack of education and all of this that would yield a better prison system. Hospital work is such a burnout career to be a hospitalist and so as an internal medicine doctor I’d spent so many years in hospitals in ICU’s and when you are admitting the same patient for the same condition for the fourth time in a single month you start to really give up hope, and as we see you know cancer now reaching 1 or two males in the united states will now be diagnosed with cancer that’s mind boggling like that’s a doubling of our cancer rate just in the last 30 years!

Alzheimer’s certainly Parkinson’s, and down into our children with attention deficit, hyperactivity, autism and the like our population is failing to build healthy brains and so the anti depressants, that anti anxieties, the sleep medicines, the sexual disorders all of this explosion of this function of the brain is because the organism is losing the soil system and so we need to radically change our viewpoint from oh we just fixed the pneumonia to we just did a whack amole situation.

If you look at the recent Netflix release on Bill Gates and feel good story about the Gates Foundation (SO CORRUPT) on what they’re trying to do to eradicate polio and these viral infections by these very intensive almost military efforts of vaccination. What you see is they stamp it out and one thing in there he’s showing that, hey we eradicated here but then it pops up of here, and we implement our system over here in this county and we eradicated, but it popped up back over here so they’re doing the whack a mole game not just in a single city but in the whole populations where they can’t suppress the infection because they’re not realizing that they’re playing on a 2 dimensional test board when in fact biology is 3 dimensional and the micro organisms are through the soil water and air systems.

The reason they’re there is because we have damaged the system. We didn’t eradicate polio, for example until we changed our water systems and we could chlorinate our pools and sinks. We would have kids still with polio today, if it wasn’t for changing the water, and yet have this story that the polio vaccine made polio go away. No, we changed 1000 things and medical management around the tonsils and adenoids and radiation for acne that was going on at the time and everything else we stopped doing then the children recovered and their immune systems strengthened and we changed their water environment. We’re seeing the inability for that same polio vaccine to eradicate it in India because we’re not fixing the underlying problem which is an abnormal unbalanced terrain of water and soil systems because there’s so much chemical toxicity there.  (NOT TO MENTION THE VACCINES MAKE PEOPLE MORE SICK!) Vaccines are all about $ not health.

Corona deaths are all from co-morbidities.  Cardiovascular, diabetes and kidney disease are the most common, which none of those have to do with physiology of a virus.  Why are those populations?  Why not asthma and emphysema? Why?  All three are usually categorized into two medications: statins and ACE inhibitors.  These meds change the terrain of our lungs, which makes the population prone to a disease event, which has ALL to do with the terrain.  The virus is expressing, if we change our terrain (which is what the drugs do), you have problems.

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The video goes on to talk about vaccinations, the basis behind them and why having a corona virus vaccine is a terrible idea.

I HIGHLY suggest you watch the rest, if you have the time, which I know you do because we are still in quarantine 😉

I hope while reading from this video that i transcribed, that you see similar themes as to what I try to educate you with as much as I can.  I hope and pray more doctors wake up!  If you are tired of trying to educate people around you about why this virus isn’t going away and it’s not bad then send them this:)  And don’t stop sharing!

Here is the link to the full video:
https://londonreal.tv/zach-bush-our-covid-19-assumptions-are-wrong-why-social-distancing-vaccines-will-make-the-pandemic-worse/?fbclid=IwAR1QyBOvsHNFbKmMuo_92ACYuNs6-dHTjfeMuh29XWzvdQzHOlvOVv_WIhE

Here is another great resources of many doctors and health advocates trying to dismantle the “germ theory”
https://questioningcovid.com/

OIL OF THE WEEK

This week we are talking about Cardamom.  The oil of POWER!
The chemical makeup of Cardamom essential oil makes it a calming oil—allowing it to provide soothing effects for the digestive system when ingested. Cardamom oil can be used to slow down muscle contractions in the intestines and to ease bowel looseness,* which is why it is commonly taken to aid in digestion.* Consider taking Cardamom oil internally when experiencing occasional feelings of stomach discomfort, or after over-indulging at dinner.* When taken internally, it is best to dilute one drop of Cardamom oil in 4 oz. of liquid.

Just as Cardamom oil can be used to calm the digestive system, its aroma can also be calming and soothing. When using Cardamom essential oil to promote a sense of openness or feelings of mental clarity, consider diffusing the oil in the essential oil diffuser of your choice. Diffusing Cardamom oil helps promote a sense of a clear head, offering an overall soothing and calming feeling.

The calming and soothing properties of Cardamom essential oil can also be experienced when used topically. When you want to soothe or cool your skin, apply Cardamom oil on the skin for a cooling, refreshing sensation. Remember, when applying Cardamom essential oil to the skin, apply one or two drops to the area and dilute the oil with doTERRA Fractionated Coconut Oil to help avoid skin irritation or sensitivity.

Freshly ground Cardamom seeds are used widely in the culinary world; you can use Cardamom oil in place of cardamom seeds to enhance the flavor of many recipes. The minty flavor and scent of Cardamom has made it a popular ingredient in traditional Indian sweets and teas. It is also used in curry dishes due to its warm, spicy aroma and flavor. As a companion to coffees, teas, sauces, and pastries, Cardamom is truly “queen of the spices.” Next time you are cooking, consider adding Cardamom oil to breads, smoothies, meats, and salads to enrich food flavor and to aid digestion.*

Another internal benefit of Cardamom essential oil is its ability to promote clear airways and breathing and aid in respiratory health.* It is a key ingredient in the doTERRA Breathe® Respiratory Blend and Respiratory Drops.
Bottle of Cardamom oil next to a dinner plate, fork, and napkin. What does Cardamom oil smell like? Cardamom essential oil has a warm aroma that is both spicy and sweet.

Cardamom essential oil has a unique, pungent aroma that makes it useful around the home when you want an inviting, warm scent to fill the room. Cardamom oil’s spicy, warm, balsamic aroma is the perfect addition to any cozy home—particularly in the fall and winter. If you want to spread the unique fragrance of Cardamom essential oil around your own home, try making your own potpourri with Cardamom oil. You can place it anywhere you want a spicy and warm aroma.

That is all for now.
Have a happy and healthy week.
Dr. Hamel

Two Main Nutrients needed for the Brain.

Happy Monday Warriors!

I hope you all have had a wonderful October so far. It’s hard to believe it’s already 3/4 through the month!

Last month we talked about viruses that affect the function of the brain.  If you missed it, make sure you catch up, since viruses seem to be the hot topic this time of year!

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This week I wanted to talk with you guys about certain nutrients that are needed for your brain to function at its best.  If you’ve been following me for awhile, you might already know them and if not then WELCOME!  You will learn quite a bit about the brain if you stick around.

Today I want to not only talk about these nutrients, but talk about them in two different ways through Craniopathy Chiropractic and through Genetic Based Nutrition, because those are what I believe are the BEST ways to get these nutrients effectively.

Nutrient #1. OXYGEN. 

The brain uses three times as much oxygen as the muscles of the body do. It requires about 20% of the human bodies oxygen.  We know that oxygen is VITAL of course, but for the brain it allows for growth and healing to occur.  Our blood carries oxygen to the brain and is reliant on sufficient nitric oxide to do so. Oxygen comes from the lungs, in particular the lower part of the lugs that hold the most red blood cells to accept more oxygen.

The BEST way to get the most amount of oxygen is to breathe through your nose and fully expand your diaphragm. This will actually enable you to get that lower part of your lungs so the blood can carry it back up into the brain. 
Oxygen depletion is the #1 thing that I focus on in my practice.  This being because if your brain doesn’t have enough oxygen, you will constantly be chasing what is going on in your body.  Whether pain, infections, or proper nutrition.  It doesn’t matter how much good nutrition tips you get, how much water you drink or how much you exercise, if you aren’t getting oxygen up there… You won’t heal.

HOW DO I ASSESS?
Through the cranial system of course!  There is a specific rhythm that the bones of the head go through.  This rhythm is super important for blood to flow in and out of your brain, and oxygen to enter.  When there is tension in this system, this means that this rhythm will be disrupted.  Tension is this system also means a difficult time breathing correctly in and out of the nose.  Some individuals find it hard at all to nasal breath, and when that is the case, there is severe tension within the head impacting the sinuses.  Don’t just go running to the ENT, most of what I find is that the cranial system as A whole is the problem, not the sinuses.
Remember, the only way to access that nitric oxide is to nasal breathe!  Time and time again, patient after patient will leave my office saying OMG I can BREATHE!  It’s amazing how much your mood even changes when you are properly oxygenated. 
This is why children and adults have temper and mood issues when they have sleep apnea or are mouth breathers.  It affects how your brain functions! 

The oxygen level also impacts the health of your lymphatic system in your brain, so if you aren’t properly oxygenated, you can have toxins build up in your brain and cause severe inflammation.  

HOW DO YOU GET MORE OXYGEN THROUGH NUTRITION?!

You can also enhance your oxygen levels by enhancing the nitric oxide cycle through nutrition. Nitric oxide helps vasodilate (meaning expand) blood vessels to allow for more oxygen.  However, for some, their genetic profiles don’t allow nitric oxide to be formulated effectively.  Because of specific mutations and because this pathway is extremely sensitive to radiation and free radical damage, the cycle can get compromised, meaning less oxygen available.  Not having enough nitric oxide can be very damaging neurologically to the body as well.  You see, just like your brain, your nerves also need oxygen.  Without it, they don’t function as well.
Finding out if your nitric oxide cycle is compromised can be found through specific kinesiology genetic testing (which I do).  When we know that this is a player, the customized nutrition will help to overcome this obstacle and allow you to get more oxygen!  Pretty cool right?

Nutrient #2.  Energy (glucose & ATP). 

Energy. The brain utilizes more energy than ANY other organ.  I mean think about all that is has to do right?
The brain and body need actual ENERGY made from within called ATP.  This is needed for every single cell of our body to do what it needs to do.  If we don’t have enough ATP, our brain and body will be depleted.  WE also get energy from another source: glucose.  What’s the big organ for glucose production? The Liver. 
The liver supplies sugar or glucose by turning stored glucose (glycogen) into glucose! It can also make glucose by harvesting amino acids, waste products and fat by products! Another reason to love that liver!

So we must have a robust and healthy liver to actually supply the energy (glucose) needed to our brain. Yet another organ our brain relies upon.  The first if you remember were the lungs.

Body wise, we need make sure the liver is moving... All organs MOVE, and need movement to do what they need to do.  So just like the brain needed to have proper movement for blood flow to happen, the other organs as well need proper flow and mobility.

HOW DO WE GET IT TO MOVE?
Through body work!  Working on the nerves that control the liver are key to make sure it knows what to do!  So enhancing the spinal areas related to the liver are key through chiropractic manipulation.  Also doing reflex techniques to get the liver and gallbladder working more affectively through abdominal work is really helpful to get them moving!
Lastly, the liver is a big source of emotional stress, so if this is the case, you must uncover and start to heal from those emotional wounds so that the liver can do what it needs to!  Emotional wounds cause physical problems too!

HOW DO WE GET BETTER ENERGY THROUGH NUTRITION?!

This is one of the FIRST and biggest impact pathways we focus on first with genetic nutrition.  This being because if you don’t have enough energy, you can’t even begin to work on other genetic factors like MTHFR and others(HUGE mistake made by many who do genetic testing).  Getting your body to make more ATP and to make and enhance your liver and glucose is really impactful!  Many on my genetic protocols will say even after a week that their energy is amazing!  We don’t have to give them extra energy help or adrenal supports, their own bodies make the energy they need!
Any why are they happier?
Because their brain is happier.  It has the energy it needs to do what it needs to!
And, your liver is happier too.  Which means detox pathways, hormones and other systems will work more efficiently!
A couple genetic variants I see when this is really impacted is the NDUFS gene and the ACAT gene mutations.  Take care of those and the rest of the energy pathway will clear and be happy:)

So there you have it folks.  Oxygen and Energy.  If you give your brain these two, it will work for you the way you need it to and in a much HEALTHIER more EFFICIENT way.

Questions?
Ask Away!

That is all for now.

Dr. Hamel DC.

Wireless Wise Kids

Wireless Wise Kids and Back to School

Happy Monday Everyone!  I hope you all had a great weekend! I was up in Idaho and it was COLD!  Fall is definitely here.

This month has been all about keeping our kids healthy this school year.  We’ve gone over brain health, nutritional recommendations, and this week we will be talking about health through wireless technology.

I’ve talked in previous blog’s about EMF’s and the danger on our health.  5G is not a good thing people, it will come at a big health cost to all of us.  But, what is SO important about this topic is the health of our future generations this is impacting.

 

Here is a HUGE point I was you to remember with all of this:

Children absorb double the radiation than an adult brain.  Their bone marrow is 10 TIMES more absorbable than adults!

This is why we just can’t turn a blind eye to the dangers of EMF’s anymore.  We KNOW through research already EMF’s are harmful to us.  But, we also know the addiction factor is huge.

Other countries have actually BANNED cell phone use in children.  Is Israel, they saw a 20% increase in parotid gland cancer, so the Israeli association put out a ban because most that were affected were children.

There have been no studies that have been done if there is a link between autism and cell phones. But a lot in the engineering research are saying it’s definitely possible.  This being because EMF’s actually cause DNA damage. These gene differences can causes problems with generations down the line.

EMF’s also open the blood brain barrier and change our gut micro biome, which both are our immune system!

It’s important to know about what these EMF’s are and safe ways to use mobile and wireless technology.
This information can be found from a great book called : Wireless Wise Kids.

“Mobile phones, cordless phones, laptops, and tablets all send information through the air without using any wires.
This information travels through the air in tiny packets of energy carried by microwave radiation.  Even though you can’t see, hear or smell this radiation, it’s always present when wireless devices are sending or receiving information.

You might hear this information as a voice, or see it as in pictures, but it will reach you in the same way.

Here’s how a cell phone works:

Henry calls sally.  Henry’s mobile phone adds the information from his message to a signal of microwave information.  His phone’s ariel sends this radiation into the air.
The microwave radiation reaches a mobile phone base station which might be on top of a building or on a tall metal tower.

The base station sends the message on until it reaches a base station near sally and this base stations sends it to sally’s phone.

Sally’s phone changes the information carried by the microwave radiation into the sound of henry’s voice.

Cordless phones, tablets and computers also use microwave information.  Microwave radiation travels through solid objects such as walls. This is why you can use a cordless phone in a different room to the base or you can use a laptop in a different room to the modem.

But this means it can also TRAVEL into the BODY.  The amount that is absorbed by a person’s brain is called the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR).  Phone’s with higher SAR create more harm for the body.  ”

Think of an actual microwave.  We are pretty much melting our brains!

So….

We have to lessen the amount of exposure as much as possible, and ESPECIALLY for the health of our kids.  I wouldn’t recommend any children to have cell phones personally.  I would say only as teenagers would it be acceptable and only because it’s an independence thing.  Parent’s, try not to let your kids have your phones.

Tips:

  • When buying a phone, buy one with a low SAR rating.
  • Don’t spend longer than you need to on the device
  • keep your phone turned off as much as possible, if you use them for games with your kids, turn it on airplane mode
  • DON’T hold the mobile phone up to our head.  Text rather than call, use speaker phone, or use a headset (not bluetooth!)
  • DON’T keep your mobile phone near your body.  We are seeing more colorectal cancers in younger age groups, to which we we think is because of holding the phone in the pockets.  INSTEAD:
    • turn phone off when in pocket
    • put in backpack
    • put in purse
  • Don’t use phone in low reception area like your car or an elevator.  In these settings the phone has to work harder and sends out more microwave radiation.  (low bars on the phone)
  • Keep it AWAY from your bed.
  • Don’t use it as an alarm clock (unless airplane mode)
  • don’t charge it next to your bed because the charger makes it more harmful
  • get rid of cordless phones, they give out radiation even when NOT in use.
  • phones with wired connections don’t give out microwave radiation and are much safer
  • don’t spend too long on a wireless computer (super important for many schools that use a lot of ipads and laptops)
  • make sure the modem isn’t near your bed or desk
  • turn off the modem when no one is using the internet
  • don’t work with your laptop on your lap
  • don’t rest your tablet on your body, and always use airplane mode with kids!
  • Get rid of alexa and google smart devices.  HUGE radiation devices that send it out constantly.  I know it’s fun and convenient for kids, but a LOT of radiation.

The best advice is to do your best to control your home.  And be advocates in your schools that use a lot of technology.  We want our children learning, but not actually damaging their brain’s from all the EMF’s.  

I like using protection devices such as HEDRON for all cellphones and wireless devices, also home protectors they make can he really helpful.  They aren’t perfect but help!  The best advice is to decrease your exposure as much as possible.

THE MOST research out there for EMFs right now is on how it affects fertility.  It’s pretty profound, and I think we will keep finding more and more things it is affecting.

Don’t be uniformed, share this information with others, so we can help protect our kiddos.

OIL OF THE WEEK

ON the spotlight this week is DoTerra’s  Rose Oil.

Rose oil is one of the best oils to protect us against EMF damage. OIls serve as adaptogens, having direct and indirect benefits against EMFs.  Rose has the highest Hz at 320.

Other benefits of Rose oil include:
Rose oil is incredibly time consuming and expensive to produce—242,000 hand-picked rose petals make about five ounces of rose oil. However, the benefits Rose oil offers are well worth the effort.
Known for its sweet floral fragrance, doTERRA Rose Touch is a must-have addition to your essential oil collection for skincare, mood, and personal fragrance purposes.

Rose Oil Uses

  1. If you love the sweet floral note in perfumes, Rose oil is the perfect natural fragrance for you. Apply Rose Touch to your neck, behind your ears and to your wrists to enjoy the rose’s romantic and unique scent—free of additives or chemicals.
  2. The scent of Rose oil brings with it the power to uplift your soul and change your mood for the better. For those times when your day seems clouded by stress or worry, ease your emotions by applying doTERRA Rose Touch to your heart and pulse points.
  3. Rose essential oil is known to reduce the appearance of skin imperfections and promote healthy-looking, radiant skin. We recommend applying doTERRA Rose Touch directly on skin imperfections both in the morning and at night. Not only will it help reduce the appearance of skin imperfections, it will also promote an even skin tone and healthy complexion.
  4. Need another reason to include Rose Touch in your skin care routine? Your skin needs the appropriate levels of moisture to be able to function properly, which means hydration is key. When you’re dehydrated or your skin care routine removes too much moisture from the skin, your body will react by producing too much oil. Rose oil helps balance the moisture levels in your skin, which will keep your skin looking its best.

Fun Fact
In medieval Persia (now known as Iran), Avicenna (980-1037 AD), a Persian doctor wrote extensively on health and wellness and is credited as the father of aromatherapy as we now know it. He attempted various distillation methods using flowers and was eventually able to isolate the scent of the rose as well as produce rose water.

Wheatgrass Pineapple Smoothie.

An amazing EMF protector for us is Wheat Grass!

  • Barley (wheat) grass is a totally balanced food. It contains all of the nutrients required for life: vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other proteins (amino acids), essential fatty acids and chlorophyll. Barley grass has thousands of living enzymes (a special protein). Enzymes are nature’s biological catalysts that initiate all the chemical transformations in the body. Over 3,000 enzymes have been identified. They are required for every transformation in the body – digestion, cell respiration, bodily movements, thinking processes, detoxification, cancer control, fat, protein and carbohydrate metabolism, etc.The normal daily amount of barley grass is 1-3 teaspoons (1 tsp = 2 grams). If you choose wheat grass (juice), start with one ounce daily and gradually increase to four or six ounces.

RECIPE:

  • 1 teaspoon Wheat grass or 1 ounce juice
  • 1/4 teaspoon Hawaiian spirulina powder
  • 1 1/2 cups raw coconut water or filtered water
  • 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
  • 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
  • 1 cup baby spinach
  • 1/2 cup fresh mint leaves
  • 2 pitted dates
  • 3 cups frozen pineapple