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Are Grains Good or Bad?

Are Grains Good or Bad? The last 4,500 years of actual recorded human history finds man being very heavy consumers of grains. Grains have been the main nourishment for billions of humans worldwide throughout all history. Only in the last 70 or so years do we see people having trouble with grains. Why? What’s changed? … Read more

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Three Big Reasons Why Women Get Autoimmune Diseases More Than Men

Three Big Reasons Why Women Get Autoimmune Diseases More Than Men More than 75% of all autoimmune patients are women.1 Women have 90% of all thyroid diseases, and they make up 90% of all lupus sufferers.2 Why? These figures are too high to just be chance. Most professionals agree that there is something going on … Read more

What a Normal Day of Eating Looks like on an Autoimmune Reversal Diet for a Busy Person

When people find out that I have successfully reversed my autoimmune disease, many people like to ask, so what did you eat? There’s a lot of conflicting information out there, and sometimes it can be overwhelming especially if you’re a busy person. Therefore, I thought a lot of people would appreciate knowing what a normal day of eating looks like on an autoimmune reversal diet for someone who’s busy like my wife and I are.

Eating the Right Meals Is a Big Challenge

Many who are attempting to heal their autoimmune disease at home find that knowing what the right foods are to eat is their biggest challenge. The reason is because an autoimmune reversal diet is not a fast food or take out diet. Meaning it takes time and you’re going to have to prepare most of your food yourself at home. The reason for this is because the majority of restaurants and delis are serving food that will perpetuate your autoimmunity because they are full of GMOs, chemicals and animal-based foods. If you want to see why animal-based foods perpetuate autoimmunity click here. Therefore, you can’t depend on eating out. You have to take matters into your own hands and know for yourself exactly what is in the food you’re eating.

Give and Take

There’s give and take with most things in life, and if you’re going to have the benefits of eating a diet that is actually healing your autoimmunity, the give is that you won’t be able to accomplish this by eating out every day. But there’s good news! Whether it’s a slow-paced day, or a very busy day you can eat delicious food that’s safe and will actually contribute to healing your autoimmunity.

The 3 Keys

So how can a busy person possibly accommodate preparing all of their meals themselves at home? Let me show you. There are three keys to pulling this off. These keys are planning, batching and using technology to do work for you.

First, here’s a list of our typical busy-day meal plan. After that I’ll explain how we do it.

Pre-Breakfast

One quart (4 cups) of warm water first thing in the morning. Sometimes with the juice of half a lemon.
1/2” aloe vera 15 minutes later.

Breakfast

  • Hot breakfast cereal with nuts, coconut milk and fruit
  • Oven-baked roasted potatoes and sweet potatoes served with sliced avocado

Sorghum Hot Cereal

Oven Baked Potatoes

 

 

Lunch

 
  • Salad with steamed beets, vegan Parmesan crumble, lemon and salt
  • Pizza
  • Enchiladas
  • Mac & cheese
  • Pot pie
  • Veggie bowls: which includes beans, rice, avocado and organic corn tortilla
Enchaladas
Enchaladas

Dinner

Berry & Banana Smoothie Bowl
  • Lots of fruit
  • A smoothie bowl topped with shredded coconut, fresh fruit, nuts and honey
  • Cereal
  • A healthy, vegan gluten-free power bar
  • Sweet potatoes with coconut milk and maple syrup
  • Gluten-free English muffins with almond butter, honey and sliced bananas or for a savory style: sliced avocado, sliced tomatoes, sliced onions, salt

Explanation

Pre-Breakfast

The purpose of the pre-breakfast routine is for digestion health. Aloe is healing to the lining of the small intestine, and warm lemon water is an excellent way to get your digestion started. Good gut health is a key factor in healing from autoimmunity, so I’m always doing something to try to keep it in good shape.

Breakfast

Were you wondering, how does a busy person eat gourmet food like oven-baked roasted potatoes, pizza, enchiladas and pot pie during the week? It’s all about planning, batching and using technology.

Planning is one of the keys to eating foods that taste good, your excited about and that also heals. We really like hot cereals in the morning. The various hot cereals we make include gluten-free oats, rice, millet, sorghum, buckwheat, amaranth, teff, and quinoa. Oats, rice, sorghum, millet and teff are considered grains and buckwheat, quinoa, and amaranth and are more so seeds so we deal with them differently (technically you could call all of them seeds because they are all able to sprout new plants, but those that are more so classified seeds are not from the grass family and are more easily digested without long cooking times).

If you're confused because you thought all grains were bad see my post about it.

With all grains and seeds, the night before we’re going to eat them we soak them in warm water overnight. In the morning we drain and rinse them well. The reason for this is to get all of the anti-nutrients out of the grains and seeds such as lectins, saponins and phytates. These can damage the small intestine contributing to leaky gut which in turn causes many people to suffer from chronic fatigue.

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These anti-nutrients also prevents up to 80% of the nutrition in seeds from being released. But soaking them gets rid of this protective outer coating on the seeds, releasing the nutrients in them for our consumption. After thoroughly rinsing them until the soapy water is gone (which is the anti-nutrients), we cook the seeds for 15 to 25 minutes on the stove or in the Instapot until they’re done. (The Instapot is essentially a digital pressure cooker which can also act like a rice cooker. It’s a great little machine which save us time in the morning and makes life easier.)

The Instapot

With grains such as oats, rice, sorghum, teff and millet, they digest better if they are cooked over a longer period of time. So for these grains, we soak them throughout the day and then in the evening, drain them, rinse them well and put them in the crockpot to cook overnight.

We cook the breakfast cereals with Himalayan pink mineral salt (1/2 teaspoon per dry cup of grain) and the needed amount of water (usually at the ratio of 1:3 dry grain to water).

For busy people, it’s also important to batch. This means instead of making enough for just one morning, we make enough for two or three. The benefit is that you will only have to prepare breakfast two to three times a week! Sound good, busy people?

Lunch

Typically, we plan all of our meals for the week on Sunday and spend part of that day cooking for the week. And when we prepare the meals, we make double or triple the recipe. You can put half of it in the fridge or freezer and pull it out in the morning as you are getting ready for work.

You’d be surprised how the three simple keys of planning, batching, and using technology can make a huge difference in time savings. Just investing 30 minutes to plan your meals will save you hours during the week. Just adding an additional cup of this and an extra teaspoon of that will save even more hours. Batching is key!

Dinner

Our evening meals are the easiest since we’re usually at home when we eat it and the foods we eat (fruit, smoothies, cereal, sweet potatoes, gluten-free English muffins) are foods that can be prepared on the spot within 15 minutes with the exception of the sweet potatoes.

You may have noticed that dinner wasn’t a substantial meal. This is because the key with dinner is to eat foods that will digest fast and eating them at a time that will give your stomach enough time to digest before you sleep.

If you are a sedentary person who works a desk job and doesn’t workout, then two meals a day is much better for your digestion and overall longevity. If you’re very active like my wife and I are, running, weight lifting and hiking regularly, your body will take three meals fine. Something most people are unaware of is that it’s harmful for your stomach to be digesting food while you’re trying to sleep. Digestion slows down and the food in the stomach ferments and rots creating bad blood which isn’t good for anyone but especially someone trying to reverse an autoimmune condition. You’ve probably experienced what it’s like to eat a big meal and then try to fall asleep for the night. You wake up the next morning feeling tired and unrested. Sometimes it’s accompanied by bad dreams. We’ve had this experience many times.

So the key with dinner is to eat foods that will digest fast and eating them at a time that will give your stomach enough time to digest before you sleep. With the foods I mentioned (smoothie, cereal, fruit, English muffins, etc.), 2-3 hours is plenty.

What if I’m a bad planner?

You can still pull it off if you’re a bad planner, but your options will be more limited. This happens to us once and a while. An emergency pops up and took up the time when you would normally have been preparing your food for the next few days. It happens. Here’s what our meals look like on days that we were unable to prepare and plan in advance for.

Breakfast

  • Fruit - possibly 2-4 bananas and a few handfuls of berries
  • Cold cereal (organic, non-GMO) with almond milk, some nuts and fruit on top
  • Gluten-free English muffins or toast
  • Homemade granola (prepared ahead of time it can last weeks)
  • Smoothie with fresh fruit, nuts, coconut shreds and granola on top

 

 

 

Lunch
Simple salad or if we’re really busy, carrot sticks and cucumber slices with salt.

Pasta: organic brown rice pasta with an easy sauce like marinara sauce and vegetables (Whole Foods has our favorite go-to red sauce without any black pepper, citric acid or added sugar - 365 brand, Organic Tomato Basil Pasta Sauce)

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Rice Pasta

Gluten Free English muffins with marinara sauce, ground sesame seeds,  olives, and onions to make little personal pizzas.

Dinner
(Pretty much the same since these are quick foods anyways.)

  • Smoothie
  • Cereal
  • Sweet potatoes with coconut milk and maple syrup
  • Lots of fresh fruit
  • Gluten-free English muffins with almond butter, honey with sliced bananas

If you are a bad planner and tend to do things on the spot, you can do things fast like the rice pasta. However, if you plan you can enjoy gourmet homecooked food on days you had virtually no time to prepare it.

Eating the right foods is half the battle, but there’s also avoiding eating the wrong foods. Did you know that three of the biggest toxins causing autoimmune diseases are probably right in your kitchen? Take a look to see the top three autoimmune causing toxins.

There are numerous toxins that are causing autoimmune diseases, but here are the top 3.

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The Painful Treatments Down the Road if You Don’t Reverse Your Autoimmune Disease

Do you really want to go through a painful surgery because of your autoimmune disease?

No? Well the reality is that many autoimmune disease require surgeries in advanced cases. Here’s a list of very common autoimmune diseases and the routing surgeries used to treat them.

  • Lupus: Kidney transplant, and hip and joint replacement surgery
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis: Joint replacement surgery
  • Sjogren’s: Eye surgery
  • Crones: Colon removal surgery
  • Autoimmune Hepatitis/Cirrhosis: Liver transplant
  • Hashimoto Thyroiditis: Total thyroidectomy
  • Graves: Bilateral lobectomy and total thyroidectomy
  • Vitiligo: Skin grafts
  • Myasthenia Gravis: Thymus gland removal
  • Meniere’s Disease: Inner ear surgery
  • Psoriatic Arthritis: Joint replacement surgery
  • Ankylosing Spondylitis: Laminectomy (A spine surgery)

Unfortunately after decades of research and clinical trial and error the medical community still does not have a cure for autoimmune diseases. Sadly to say there are some painful and very inconvenient treatments down the road if you don't get a grip on your autoimmune disease.

One Word, Motivation

Why would I share such depressing information? One word, motivation. We frequently find autoimmune suffers who are unwilling to inconvenience themselves in any way to attempt to heal their autoimmune disease naturally. As soon as they discover that reversing their autoimmune condition naturally requires some work and life changes they reject it. So many just surrender themselves to whatever treatments the established medical community comes up with. If you're unwilling to take the necessary steps to reversing it, you owe it to yourself to know what the future might look like. This future may likely be surviving through management measures, surgery, and falling apart piece by piece.

The scar left from Moms liver transplant.

One fact that people often over look is that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US according the the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)(1). A 2004 report of inpatient deaths related to medical error found that 575,000 deaths were caused by medical error between 2000 and 2002.(2)

My mother went through several surgeries and other medical procedures during her several year battle with autoimmune liver cirrhosis. The recovery from these was often painful and several times things took place during these surgeries and procedures that could've killed her. During a procedure in which they were draining fluid from her enlarged abdomen (a complication of liver failure) they took out way too much at once which sent her into renal failure and almost destroyed her kidneys.

Her kidneys could only function at 10% capability after that accident. So not only did she have a damaged liver due to the autoimmune disease but now a damaged kidney due to the hospital.

In all fairness hospital can be a life saver. They saved my mothers life on several occasions. The balance is that patients should keep in mind that the hospital and it's staff can also be a life taker. The main point is that you want to stay out of there as much as possible. If for some reason I had to go (God forbid) based on what I have seen my philosophy is to get out of there as soon as possible before something bad happens.

"They Stole My Gallbladder!"

After Mom's liver transplant the doctor can into her recovery room to see how she was healing. During his interview with her he was discussing how the procedure went and casually said in passing he said, "oh yea and we also took out your gallbladder." My mother said, "what!?" I must not have heard them correctly she thought, "Did you say you removed my gallbladder?" "Oh yea." The doctor said. When he could see the shock and horror on my mothers face he arrogantly stated, "You don't need that, it could just cause complications in the future, we did you a favor." A "favor!?" My mother could've sued, since she had actually signed a form stating she did not want them to remove her gallbladder. I believe that organs are there for a reason, but unfortunately my mothers surgeon didn't share that same philosophy.

Hope!

But don't worry there's hope! I believe surgery can be avoided. I reversed my autoimmune condition and have seen many others do the same. But you have to be willing to change the way you live. Either road you take there will be some sacrifices. But I would rather take the sacrificial road to healing than the sacrificial road to more sickness. How about you?

The first place I started when I began my journey of reversing my autoimmune disease was identifying and avoiding toxins that were causing my condition. Society is full of many hidden toxins that are key factors contributing to the development of autoimmune diseases. Many of these toxins are probably  in your home right now. If you'd like to learn more about how you can identify and  avoid these take a look at my next article.

There are many toxins cause autoimmune diseases... here are the top 3.

Sources

(1)http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/862832

(2)http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139

The MTHFR Genetic Factor That Could Mean the Difference in Curing Your Autoimmune Disease

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The MTHFR genetic factor plays a key role in why most have trouble healing from their autoimmune diseases.

The MTHFR gene (methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase) has the instructions for making the MTHFR enzyme. The MTHFR enzyme has an extremely important job because it facilitates an action in the body called methylation.

The reason why this is important is because there are about 250 crucial processes in the body that require methylation. Methylation is essential for the right function of nearly all of your body’s systems, and especially your ability to detox.

Methylation is an absolutely critical part of our biochemistry, and if this process isn’t happening right some pretty bad things will happen.

What Can Go Wrong If You’re Not Methylating Properly?

The following is a list of many of the things methylation does and what can go wrong when it’s not functioning at full capacity. Here’s what methylation does:

  • Turns genes on and off: Methyl groups are like on-off switches. They turn things off like cancer promoting genes and our stress response. In short, without methylation it will be very difficult to beat cancer and difficult to calm down after a stressful situation.
  • Reduces aging: Aging is equivalent to DNA damage. At the end parts of the DNA strands there are things called telomeres that keep the DNA from coming unbound. When we have enough methyl groups, these telomeres can keep the DNA together but when we don’t, they unravel much easier. This means rapid aging.
  • Supports glutathione production: Glutathione is the body’s main detoxing agent. Not having enough methyl groups means not enough glutathione which means detoxing will be inhibited. This also involves being even more sensitive to chemicals and heavy metals than the average person, making toxic exposure that much worse. This is why it’s especially important to aid the body in cleansing if you have this gene mutation like I do.
  • Helps break down hormones: This is especially important when it comes to removing toxic estrogens. Without the ability to do this efficiently there will be a buildup of too much of estrogen hormones in the body that will lead to estrogen dominant problems like prostate cancer, breast cancer, and fibroids.
  • Activates and regulates the immune system: This is a big reason why the MTHFR gene mutation is so commonly associated with those who have autoimmune diseases. If a gene that’s responsible for regulating your immune system is tweaked, it should be no surprise that a dysregulated immune system will be the sure result. This dysregulation of the immune system also effects the building of immune cells which will mean there will be fewer immune cells leading to a weak immune system and a vulnerable host. This helps explain why so many with autoimmune diseases and the MTHFR gene mutation can get bad infections as was the case with my skin fungus infection.
  • Gives us energy: The biochemical cycle of methylation leads right into another cycle called the Krebs cycle. The Krebs cycle is where we get our energy from, and involves the production of ATP, L-Carnitine, and other energy chemicals. Therefore having the MTHFR gene mutation can lead to having less energy.
  • Breaks down histamine: If you don’t have enough methyl groups, you will not be able to break down histamine. Histamine is the hormone that signals an allergic response, therefore excess histamine will lead to being in a hyper-allergic state and many allergies.
  • Repairs cell membranes and myelination of nerves: Can’t remember where you put things often? It could be due to not enough methyls since they are involved in making the myelin sheath of the nerves which allows for smooth transport of chemicals and neurotransmitters.
  • Supports neurotransmitters: Neurotransmitters need methyls to work right and not having enough leads to neurological issues. The MTHFR mutation also inhibits the production of your feel-good hormones such as serotonin, melatonin, and dopamine. This may lead to symptoms of depression, insomnia, brain fog, and attention problems.
  • Converts water-soluble vitamins to fat-soluble vitamins: Certain systems in our bodies are covered in or contain high concentrations of fat, namely the nervous system and parts of the immune system. Most of the food we eat contains water-soluble vitamins. However, to deliver nourishment to these systems that contain a high percentage of fat, our body needs to convert these water-soluble vitamins into fat soluble ones. Two key vitamins involved are folate (B-9) and B-12. This action of converting key vitamins from water-soluble to fat-soluble is part of the process of methylation. When this is compromised, the nervous and immune systems will be malnourished and have a tendency to malfunction.

One of the biggest negative impacts of not being able to methylate properly is the lack of usable folate (Vitamin B9) in the body. The MTHFR enzyme converts the nutrient folate into the usable form called methylfolate. You see, when we eat dietary folate it is not yet usable to the body but needs to be converted to methylfolate in order to be used. This process involves attaching a compound called a methyl group (also referred to as “methyls”) to the folate. If we can’t methylate correctly, then we become partially inhibited from being able to convert folate into its usable form. This is really bad because almost everything good thing that happens in the body involves folate.

Getting Tested

I myself have the MTHFR gene mutation. And I've found that all of the autoimmune sufferers I personally know who have been tested for this gene mutation come out positive. Ask your doctor if they can order the MTHFR gene test. Some of them will order it or refer you to a specialist that can.

If it is not covered by your insurance, you can order the test yourself through MTHFRdoctors.com for $130. It comes with a full report decoding the results of your genetic information.

If you discover that you have this mutation, you may want to encourage your family to get tested also. It is exciting to discover this because there are things that you can do to work around this gene mutation and help your body where it is weak.

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What Can I Do to Counteract My MTHFR Gene Mutation?

1. Avoid anything with folic acid

Folic acid is the the synthetic form of Vitamin B9 folate. Folic acid is not found in nature, nor is it naturally found in the human body. Sounds bizarre right, since this is the common form of folate proscribed by doctors and is found in anything that gets fortified with vitamins. Folic acid actually slows down the chemical process of the folate cycle, by which the body creates the usable form of folate. This goes both for those with the MTHFR gene mutation and those without it. For those who have the mutation, eating folic acid is double whammy and for those who don’t have the mutation, consuming folic acid essentially produces the same effects in the body as if they did have the gene mutation. Yikes!

Not only that, the folic acid that never makes it through the folate cycle floats around in the blood. This has several detrimental effects in the body such as masking B-12 deficiencies for example.

By U.S. and Canadian law, all enriched flour has to be fortified with folic acid. So most store-bought breads, buns, breakfast cereals, pasta, etc. will be slowing down your methylation process. We’ve already looked at this topic in prior chapters, but the folic acid issue is yet another reason to go gluten free. Folic acid is in many supplements and processed foods so this is another opportunity to be a detective and read the labels, avoiding anything which contains folic acid.

2. Maintain good gut health
Gut health plays a huge role in the methylation cycle and, well, virtually everything else in the body. Healing your leaky gut and gut dysbiosis can help your MTHFR situation if you have it.

3. Don’t drink alcohol
Perhaps you feel like I just dropped a bomb on you with that statement, but the fact is that alcohol specifically depletes our B vitamins. I heard a doctor who has the MTHFR gene mutation say that he gets a nose bleed if he drinks wine. There really is no safe limit of alcohol when it comes to physical, mental, and spiritual health. Replace happy hour with healthy hour. Go to the gym, take a warm bath, spend time with family. Drinking alcohol is going to be fighting against any health measures you are currently making in reversing your autoimmune disease.

4. Eat plenty of beans and dark leafy greens to get folate
Folate comes from the word “foliage.” Can you guess why? Because that’s where the folate is. The reason why meat has it is because the animals got it from the plants they ate or ate other animals that got it from plants. The plant foods that have the most folate are the dark leafy greens and legumes — beans, lentils, etc. Make sure you get as much of your folate from these plant-based sources before jumping into supplements. With a gene mutation like this, it may be that a supplement will be needed but trying to get quality dietary sources first is always best.

For those who have the MTHFR gene mutation, even getting large amounts of dietary folate may still not provide enough folate for daily needs, and especially not for healing. I found this was the case with myself. Depending on how much of the gene mutation you have, your ability to put out methylfolate through the foods you eat will be limited by various percentages. Let’s say it’s 50%. You’re eating dietary folate, but because of your gene mutation, you’re actually only getting 50% of what you need. Where are you going to get the other 50% from? Until a way is found to increase the MTFHR process for those with the gene mutation, the next best option for now may be getting methylfolate in a supplement like I do in the Neuro-Immune Stabilizer cream made by Neurobiologix.

5. Supplement with methylated B-12 (methylcobalamin) if needed
The natural source of B-12 is bacteria. The primary source of B-12 rich bacteria is from unwashed organic produce. But for most of us who do not eat from our own gardens anymore, it is hard to get these good natural microbes as we wash our fruits and vegetables before eating. If there is a need to supplement B-12, instead of taking the synthetic B-12 which is cyanocobalamin (which breaks down into B-12 and the poison cyanide in the body), I make sure to get the B-12 in its methylated form, methylcobalamin. This is the kind that is in my Neuro-Immune Stabilizer cream and is also available as an oral supplement from any health food store.

6. Cleanse from time to time
Although I have reversed my autoimmune disease, I still think it is a good idea to cleanse from time to time throughout the year because I know I have this gene mutation which inhibits the natural production of glutathione in my body. This means I do not naturally eliminate and break down toxins and heavy metals as well. So my wife and I will do a 3 - 7 day cleanse once a year in the fall just before cold season begins. My wife and I have both avoided getting the cold and flu for years by doing this. I’ll do a detox enema once a month or every few weeks depending on how I feel. I’ll do a hydrotherapy shower every other week. I’ll drink dandelion tea here and there. If I have the opportunity to use a far-infrared sauna, I’ll enjoy a good sweating from time to time. Simple things like this have helped make up for me having this gene mutation

As a result of this successful work-around I could now counteract my gene mutation. Because of this, I was able to bounce back from having dangerously low levels of vitamin B12 and vitamin D. This saved me from the possibly of having neurological disorders such as depression and brain fog in the near future.

Dental Health

I had lots of dental problems during the years I was healing from the effects of autoimmunity in my body. I had to get cavity after cavity filled despite being a model dental patient. I believe a vitamin D deficiency along with a leaky gut was the reason my dental health went south.

Vitamin D is very important for dental health. Vitamin D is required for your body to absorb calcium and phosphorous, and these minerals are foundational to maintain strong, healthy teeth and bones. Therefore if you’re deficient in vitamin D, you won’t be able to absorb calcium, and it’s likely you’re going to have dental problems. I believe this is exactly what was happening with me. This discovery was hard to come by since my lifestyle lent to plenty of vitamin D. We exercise outdoors often and eat plenty of foods high in calcium and phosphorus.

Why was I deficient? With the MTHFR genetic factor that comes into play with autoimmune diseases, the process of converting vitamin D to its usable form in the cells can become somewhat inhibited. In combination with a damaged gut, other nutrients essential to dental health will also be less absorptive.

Therefore when you’re healing, it is helpful to make sure you’re getting a surplus of vitamins and minerals to compensate for a damaged gut and mutated genes. So besides juicing to get a high concentration of vitamins and minerals, I made sure I was also getting a high amount of vitamin D during my time of healing by daily sun baths in early spring through late fall.

What's incredible is that you can get around 20,000 IU of vitamin D from just 30 minutes of sun exposure to a large portion of your body (within the hours of 10am to 3pm).

I'm careful to make sure I don't burn of course. I made sure to continue my vitamin D intake in the winter with D3 in the special skin cream I was applying.

Thankfully the combination of healing my leaky gut and maintaining a solid dental regimen that eliminated acid and sugar-time exposure in my mouth, it caused me to see my dental health drastically improve. I haven’t had a cavity since then!

The Cleansing Element

One of the processes in your body that is hindered when you have the MTHFR gene mutation is the ability to cleanse. Therefore, I found it helpful to cleanse my body of accumulated toxins throughout my healing process and from time to time thereon for maintenance. The easiest way to help the body cleanse though is to simply halt the toxic load that is constantly being put on it. This was actually the first step for me in healing my autoimmune and ended up being half the battle. There are huge sources of toxins that most people are being exposed to every day even in their own home and don't even realize it.

The Top 3 Toxins Causing Autoimmune Diseases In Your Kitchen

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Lupus Drug Side Effects and Lupus Symptoms

For instance, one of the symptoms of the disease lupus is hair loss and yet one of the side effects of lupus immuno-suppressive drugs is hair loss. Also a common lupus symptom is fever and one of the lupus drug side effect is fever. Weight gain is a lupus symtpom, and weight gain is also a lupus drug side effect. The same goes for muscle weakness, depression and so forth. Many of effects of the disease and the side effects from the drugs are the EXACT SAME! It’s crazy! Even insulting! What’s worse? The Disease or The drugs to treat the disease? I’m not sure.  And this is just lupus. The drugs for other autoimmune diseases are no better.

Consider the following statement in the list of side effects for the lupus drug Benlysta.

“In clinical studies, people taking Benlysta reported more deaths and serious infections than those not taking the drug."

Are you serious? Is anyone paying attention to the side effects list before they take this drug.

The False Dismal Outlook

Why would people take such harmful and ridiculous drugs so readily? I submit it is because the established medical community has caused everyone to buy into the idea that they are your only option. Everyone is saying that autoimmune disease have, “no known cure…”

     “The cause of lupus is not known.”

     “The cause of MS is still unknown.”

     “Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition, meaning it lasts a long time — possibly a lifetime.”

Or that the only way to handle the disease is taking drugs that:

     “almost always needs to be taken for the rest of a person's life…”

Therefore the answers seem to be medications, medications, medications and probably for the rest of your life! Is that the way you really want to live?

I thank God that I was able to heal my autoimmune disease without taking one single medication, by using a totally natural approach which I did at home. And I’ve seen others do the same.

Don't Do This!

In addition, I need to mention that I've seen people just stop all their medications but then do nothing else. Don't do this! Stopping the use of medications is just one small piece of a larger puzzle. If you're going to stop using medications you make sure you're doing so under the supervision of a competent physician, and that you are taking other steps to address the underlying health issue that has caused the symptoms that your medications were treating.

If you would like to learn more about how I was able to reverse my autoimmune liver cirrhosis and fungal skin rash without taking any medications, you can do so since I'm currently offering the limited edition of my eBook, "How I Reversed My Autoimmune Disease" totally free. Just click here.

I hope this video and post has been informative and helpful to you.

By Gabriel Arruda

Author of How I Reversed My Autoimmune Disease

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