The Gut as the Center of our Universe
The energy science of Ayurveda describes the gastrointestinal tract(GI tract or gut)as the place where health begins and ends.
Think about it. The gut interface is where our food choice becomes us. If we choose broccoli, our gut has to change it into our brain, heart, and lung cells. What happens if the gut isn't up to it? What happens if it's sick and in poor health? The rest of the mindbody suffers.
Then what happens to the broccoli? From an energy view, it becomes stagnant energy layering in the GI tract not going anywhere.
Year after year, decade after decade, the gut gets sicker and sicker until we get so out of balance that we have unretrievable dis-ease.
The take home message. The gut is the center of dis-ease not just a mechanical tube. And the choices made by the mind that puts the food there is another integral part of dis-ease because they produce either harmony or imbalance. If gut is healthy it burns up the mistakes. If it's sick, it's trouble.
So here's to a healthy gut! DrBill
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Website is Close to Reality
In the last 2 months I have been working with a webdesigner to bring foodsheal.com information to the web surfing community. It's almost ready for primetime and I'm very excited because it will give my readers a way to get all the material in the book there on the website so they can download and get started right away.
You see the whole benefit to this material is only in its use. I have spent time here on the blog discussing the energy science principals that are foundational to the nutritional information.
But the truth be known, the information is not very important if the you can't use it in real life!
Sooo… the valuable thing for me is that you will soon be able to try it out. Drive the nutritional information out of the showroom and experience it for yourself. I have the utmost confidence that it will if practiced for six weeks you will see for yourself
To good health and balance Dr Bill
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A Sour Taste In The Mouth
It's not like anything. You need to trust me and just taste it.
Seth Godin
In high school chemistry we learned that acids are neutralized by alkaline chemicals. Perhaps we know that for us biologically the acid taste is the sour taste in Nature and that the alkaline is the bitter taste.
So if I have "heartburn" and a sour taste in my mouth it means I have excessive acidity in the stomach and to feel better I can neutralize my problem with baking soda, a common alkaline material off the shelf in the kitchen. Voila! Carbon dioxide gas is produced in my stomach as the byproduct in my acid base balancing I belch and feel better. Thanks very much, now on with the day
Whoa, what a minute! Why did I get this in the first place? Energetically I consumed too much of the qualities of hot, light, sharp in the form of pizza with pepperoni, tomato sauce, cheese, and coke the night before. Now with that energetic knowledge, maybe I should rethink my choice about pepperoni pizza and carbonated drinks?
My mindbody just told me that it didnt like the choice that I made last night. If I want to respect my mindbody and not hurt it maybe I should think about my next choice.
Well, hmmmm, anybody interested in some pepperoni pizza tonight with extra garlic? DrBill
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It’s All About Balance, Son
I am pretty sure that most of us heard the phrase about balance when we were growing up or we intuitively said to ourselves that balance would be important in our lives at one point in time.
What's this balance thing all about?
From an energy viewpoint it means equanimity. Neither too busy or too unbusy. Neither too rested or too tired. Neither too much exercise or too little. Neither too much food or too little. It's just right!
In energy nutrition it's the same thing except we have to change our perspective about foods. Foods that are too heavy for one person might be just right for another person. For example a Kapha predominant person due to his primodial vibrational frequency would be best to avoid dairy because the heavy quality of dairy would load him up with heavy which he doesn't need particularly during the cold wet winter months that already carry the heavy vibrational frequency.
But a Vata predominant lady could benefit with the heavy of dairy even during the winter months because she needs the heavy vibrational frequency.
So what's a person to do? How do I tell that broccoli is good or not so good for me? Go to foodsheal.com and get armed with the nutritional information there and you're off to the races and phenomenal health. Here's to balance, amigo. Love DrBill
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Holiday Nutritional Health: A Strong Digestive Fire
So the holiday season is upon us opening up with Tday. Overeating may occur and poor food combinations abound. Disruptive eating schedules are often present due to groups of us getting together and trying to make our get togethers synchronize. And foods that don't harmonize with our mindbody constitutions get ingested because we don't want to make Aunt Mary feel bad about what she puts on the table.
How do we get through the holiday seasons without energetic imbalance? More importantly how do we get through life by reducing our risk to energetic injury?
The answer is digestive fire that is collective term for all the digestive enzyme systems from the mouth to the lower colon. If we have a strong rich digestive fire we will burn through our mistakes. Just like we learned when we were kids, having a strong campfire will burn up even wet logs. But if our fire is weak then those same wet logs will put the fire out.
The cultivation of a rich digestive fire begins by eating appropriately for your mindbody constitution and avoiding poor food combining. Eating your biggest meal at noon and not using ice are lifestyle choices that improve digestive fire. A collection of spices that enhance digestive fire will also increase the vibrational frequencies that is available at foodsheal.com
In this way we will more than enjoy the holidays. We'll get healthier as well To good health DrBill
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