- Don't be thrown off by the initial discussion that seems
to be centered around Dr. Swank's MS diet. Swank is just a prelude to the
"Helicopter Pilot's Diet" towards the end of this piece. It remains,
though, that Dr. Swank's brave tendency towards dietetic sanity is excellent
support for it... ...forgetting for a moment that Dr. Swank doesn't go
far enough in a prosecution of proper nutrition, appears to not understand
the science of a proper diet, and does not credit the vitamin and mineral
supplementation necessary to facilitate same.
-
- I consider the "Helicopter Pilot's Diet" to
be a blueprint for life because it can prevent or ameliorate virtually
every chronic disease from arthritis to heart disease! Yeah... I know...
tough to swallow... ...walk with me.
-
- This multi-purpose-ness of disease prevention exists
because most chronic diseases have a significant inflammation component
and the "Helicopter Pilot's Diet" is all about relieving inflammation
and repairing damaged tissue... ...the way we've evolved to do it over
4 or 5 million years of evolution and not the conflicted way late 20th
Century "man" has contrived for personal gain. It certainly has
for myself and many others giving it a try...
-
- ***
-
- Let me say up front, "I love and respect dear ole'
Dr. Roy Swank." It took guts 50 or 60 years ago to stand up to the
"conventional" wisdom concerning the treatment and prevention
of MS, primarily because his program did not include any money making pharmaceuticals
(a key point). When he published his "SWANK DIET", it was revolutionary,
at the time, to condemn transfat found in hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO)
or to recommend Omega 3 from cold water fish and cod liver oil. In the
present day only the most stubborn, bone-headed, and insentient MD would
continue to dig in their arrogant heels concerning the hazards of HVO and
the benefits of Omega 3.
-
- Inexplicably? Some obstinately still do!
-
- Swank's Diet has had truly amazing results. Even though
MS is so multi-faceted that everyone is differently effected, virtually
all MS sufferers who have tried it had at least some relief while others
had substantial relief. With some the disease even seemed to be stopped
in its tracks! This diet certainly has the potential to prevent MS... ...and
most other chronic diseases.
-
- This said, here's what's WRONG with the Swank diet? How
must we dramatically improve it, thus increasing the possibility that ~you~
will never suffer from MS or pretty much any other chronic disease.
-
- If you go to www.swankmsdiet.com , you can follow along
as I go thru the 7 items listed in the "Quick Reference" block.
You might also want to read the narrative that goes along with these QR
items...:
-
- SWANK DIET ITEMS
-
- QUICK REFERENCE List... With my commentary... ( Remember,
the next 7 numbered headings are Swank's recommendations - not mine )
-
- 1. Saturated fat (Satfat) should not exceed 15 grams
per day.
-
- I really don't think Satfat is the problem. In fact I
think it can be very helpful if consumed in moderation... if it comes from
the right place and is prepared the right way. We evolved eating unburnt
(homo-Erectus ate meat raw remember?) Satfat. The list of positive effects,
associated with unburnt/undamaged Satfat is as long as your arm (see "Fat
Facts": http://www.alienview.net/zfat.html ).
-
- It's difficult to appreciate the truth concerning Satfat
because there is so much seemingly overwhelming data to the contrary...
all designed to sell more Lipitor... remember.
-
- Well friends? All that "data" is pretty much
flawed. Here's generally the way it goes:
-
- They have a bunch of people increase their intake of
Satfat and then something bad happens to a significant percentage of them.
So, Satfat is bad. Right?... Not so fast, Skippy.
-
- This could easily be because of dirty tricks! I suspect
it is dirty tricks, in fact! The most egregious of these facts being -
not increasing the Satfat with something like pure undamaged butter, but
instead using Satfat that has been damaged by excessive heat, arduous processing,
evil hydrogenation... ...using rancid fat, mixing with
- rancid poly food oils... or using fat containing damaged
cholesterol...
-
- Actually, this was done several decades ago by hydrogenating
unrefined coconut oil, turning it toxic, then using it to conduct tests
for cholesterol buildup!
-
- Naturally, heart disease increased...due to the hydrogenated
transfat molecule... ...but not the unrefined coconut oil. Outrage, reader!
This is not science! This is conflicted axe-grinding!
-
- ...And after forty or so years, MD's are still quoting
that bogus data as justification to demonize coconut oil... while at the
same time telling their patients to use margarine ... which is Partially
Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Trans Fat)! Outrage, again!
-
- ...Another reason is because They don't know (or care!)
about the other things these participants do (or maybe even encouraged
to do) that will cause Satfat to turn on them and contribute to the problem.
...Or make it appear that the culprit is the Satfat when it is really something
else.
-
- Look how simple it would be to do just that. (the following
is pure speculation... but NO trick is too dirty)
-
- What if "they" gave every participant (for
standardization purposes) a free supply of special "breakfast bars"
with the correct daily increase in SatFat contained in the sweet buttery
center. Designed specifically for this study -- the bar is portrayed as
a natural "Whole Grain" Health Bar... but in reality it is a
"Caramel colored,
- white flour, hydrogenated, sugar coated, chewey-gooey
Candy Bar"!
-
- Well... after a few years with a subsequent increase
in heart disease, diabetes, MS, etc -- they can proclaim "Look, buttery
SatFat causes chronic disease"! ...NO! Actually, the sugar, refined
flour & trans fat caused a daily insulin spike (which inhibits the
production of the inflammation reducing PG-1
- [prostaglandin-1] by increasing the conversion of DGLA
to AA [arachidonic acid], which is the precursor to the PG-2)!!! This provokes
a further increase in inflammation, platelet-stickiness, and blood pressure...ahh,
that sounds just like heart disease!
-
- But, by all means, lets blame the SatFat...!
-
- ...That's what makes a dirty trick like this so effective!
The innocent SatFat actually ends up adversely contributing to the disease
-- when it is the sugar, flour & trans fat infusion increasing inflammation
& platelet-stickiness... not because of something inherently wrong
with SatFat! See how evil all this is?
-
- Stay with me on this...
-
- What if... by design, encouragement or accident the participants
engaged in some or many of the following delinquent activities that could,
along with an increase in SatFat, make it look like SatFat was the villain?
Like burning and charring meat/fat (creating the harmful free radical HCA!)
~ using TransFat from HVO like margarine (irrefutably linked as a cause
of MS and Heart Disease) ~ using damaged Satfat in processed meat ~ using
sugar ~ consuming refined Carbos (All bread, cereal, and pasta) ~ consuming
Omega 6 poly Unsat food oils (Corn, Safflower, etc) ~ miss Critical cofactor
trace minerals leached from our soils ~ using Antacids and carbonated drinks
(...pause to take a breath folks...) Mercury, Lead, PCBs in fish and in
our environment ~ No Omega 3 or green leafy vegetables in the diet ~ Toxins
in tap-water ~ Corn-fed beef, full of Omega 6 poly oils instead of Omega
3, that's found in grass fed animals. ~ Fish fed cornmeal, high in Omega
6 poly oils instead of Omega 3 ...
-
- ...And the list goes on and on folks... One begins to
get a feeling for what "They" are not telling you. Who are they...?
-
- ...That would be the smiling sociopathic bastard with
a clandestine hand in your pocket, reader.
-
- So, have They ever taken a group of people and cut out
virtually all of the bad things mentioned above... then fed this conjectured
group a quantity of pure un-burnt Satfat to see what would happen? Well
no. Of course not.
-
- Folks... as it turns out they don't have to. Mother Nature
did it for them! The Inuit (Eskimos), are just that group of people. And
consider, folks, a study similar to the Inuit would likely have never got
off the ground...anyway... Why is that?
-
- The traditional Eskimo eats nothing but protein and fat
(high Satfat... ummmm! Blubber)! ...With no green leafy vegetables... Inuit,
in fact, have the lowest incidence of heart disease in the world, and oh
yeah... they seem to actually be immune to MS. This MUST give every researcher
pause! But It doesn't. Why?
-
- Also the "not-so-traditional" Eskimo that has
started buying sugar & processed foods from the "White Man"
is getting the white man diseases...diabetes, heart disease, MS ,etc. etc.
These are the facts, reader. They fly in the face of a jealous medical
establishment.
-
- Additionally, Dr. Swank disconcertingly lumps the SatFat
in coconut oil in with all Satfat -- see "Fat Facts" (above),
again, to understand why Extra Virgin, unrefined coconut oil is wonderful
stuff that can only help MS sufferers as a result of its antioxidant properties
and its synergy with the Essential fatty Acid (EFA)
- prostaglandin pathways... which reduces inflammation!
-
- Indeed the holistic community has known for years of
the anti-inflammatory effects of coconut oil -- especially with regard
to bowel inflammation (like my own Crohn's disease affliction). What manner
of medical malfeasence is this?
-
- So, to sum up, SatFat found in eggs, coconut oil, unburnt
meat (to include lean red meat), and butter are not a big problem. Just
don't go crazy with the butter...
-
- 2. Unsaturated fat (oils) should be kept to 20-50 grams
per day.
-
- This is his most glaring error. He lumps all Unsat oils
together. So, in his mind, cottonseed or safflower oil (he recommends both)
are just as health promoting as olive oil (read "How I beat Crohn's
Disease" [Alienview.net] for the bad news on Cottonseed oil)!
-
- Remember folks, MS, like most chronic diseases, is all
about inflammation. So, using Omega 6 poly-unsat oil... ...as opposed to
Omega 9 mono-unsat oils (like olive oil) is a huge mistake. Poly oils from
the grocery store are already rancid and teaming with the free radical
toxin, lipid-peroxide, thus requiring it to be RBDed
- (refined, bleached, and deodorized). This process hides
the rancid smell before selling it to you. Disgusted? You should be.
-
- Mono oils, like olive and macadamia-nut, do not have
to be RBDed because they don't go rancid during pressing, like the unstable
poly oils do - for example, safflower oil (which Swank recommends, remember)
has a substantial toxicity and unhealthfulness. Safflower oil, reader,
has the highest percent of reactive poly oil at 80%. Olive oil, conversely,
only has 8% poly with a large 76% slice of mono. Macadamia- nut oil is
even better at 80% mono. The free radicals that result from toxic poly
oils, which have been processed 'to death', attack every cell in your body
AND can either cause or certainly exacerbate MS and virtually every other
chronic disease.
-
- Swank also lumps the poly-unsat medicinal oil in with
the poly-unsat food oils. Medicinal oils are a completely different animal.
It is not correct to consider them the same...
-
- The poly-unsat medicinal oils, briefly, are the more
complex Omega 6 (GLA) found in borage, black current & primrose oil--
and the Omega 3's (ALA, EPA, DHA) found in flax & fish oil. Because
of their complexity, they are exponentially even more reactive than the
Omega 6 poly food oils (corn, soy, cotton seed oil, etc). Consequently,
the medicinals require added refrigeration during pressing to avoid the
heat that would require RBDing later... and they must be refrigerated
- after opening. The Omega 3 EFAs, as a heads up, are the
backbone of the "Helicopter Pilot's Diet", coming up shortly..
-
- Under Swank's "Rules For Oils" he says something
very illogical. "Always refrigerate oil after opening to avoid rancidity
(except olive oil)."
-
- OK, go ahead and refrigerate the poly oil to avoid further
rancidity! Remember, though, the oil has already turned rancid once at
pressing and had to be RBDed to... ... to hide the smell, reader! Consequently,
there's not much point in refrigerating it later (...the cat's already
well out of the bag! ...The poison pig dressed!). After RBDing, the oil
is so "stripped and dead" that it will not increase in rancidity,
anytime soon, even at room temperature. Like non reactive plastic... similar
to opened Skippy Peanut Butter still being Skippy Peanut butter five years
later... microscopic bugs won't eat it... why would you?
-
- In all fairness, you can purchase, for more money (a
lot MORE money), on the web and some health food stores, cold pressed "under
refrigeration", poly oils... that are not rancid and must be refrigerated
after opening. The problem is Dr. Swank doesn't tell you this, so on his
web-site it looks like grocery store poly-unsat
- food oil is OK ... when it is, decidedly, not. The other
problem is even if the poly-oil is "the refrigeration pressed"
and is not the rancid type, you should still avoid it because poly Omega
6 screws up the desired and critical EFA Ratio of (4 to 1) -- that's: 4
Omega 6... to ... 1 Omega 3.
-
- ...Most Americans are at an unhealthy and out of whack
(20 or 30 to 1) ratio! This is because they consume too much Omega 6 Poly
Food Oils like Safflower oil at 80% poly and even Canola oil at 37% poly
-- at the same time they don't consume enough poly medicinal oil Omega
3 found in flax seed, fish oil, eggs, and green leafy vegetables (See FatFacts,
above).
-
- Every incremental increase in the EFA ratio above (4
to 1) facilitates a death rate going up, again, primarily because of an
increase of all types of inflammation (due to the prostaglandin imbalance
associated with ratios higher than 4 to 1). ...Bet your "Health Care
Professional" has yet to bring THAT to your attention... ...why?
-
- Why?
-
- It's a mystery why a high EFA ratio has not been more
LOUDLY linked to auto-immune diseases like MS!
-
- 3. No red meat for the first year.
-
- Ok -- I can live with this, but I really feel it's about
how the red meat is raised and cooked, not the red meat itself. Consequently
if you can afford it, free range grass-fed red meat is higher in Omega
3 and the magical fatty acid CLA (see "FatFacts" Above) as opposed
to corn fed grocery store meat that is higher in Omega 6... and has virtually
no CLA. Excessive red meat can cause an increase in homocysteine, which
if elevated can cause arterial inflammation. However, if you stay away
from sugar/refined flour, HVO, poly food oils, and you take Omega 3, folic
acid, B6 & B12, then moderate lean red meat consumption is OK...especially
if in the "disease prevention mode".
-
- 4. After the first year, 3 oz. of red meat is allowed
once per week.
-
- Gee... Why bother? I think this is completely over the
top. If you liquid cook with stews, soups, and pot-roast which keeps the
temperature below 212 degrees Fahrenheit (to avoid burning), and use lean
meat (preferably grass fed), then eat red meat 2 or 3 nights a week if
you want. Or, more often, if you are in the disease prevention mode".
Remember... we have millions of years of evolution conforming our biology
to a food source... besides, I suspect that it is the respect that you
have for your food source that is key... you shouldn't feed meat to a plant
eater and expect that there will be no consequences. Can you spell "mad
cow"?
-
- 5. Dairy products must contain 1% or less butterfat unless
otherwise noted.
-
- I don't think you should ever use milk But if you do,
keep it to a minimum. I don't feel there's a problem with the butterfat
found in real butter, but, I'm not crazy about the homogenized butterfat
& lactose found in milk.
-
- Real butter is OK in moderation because it's undamaged
fat with no lactose. A couple of the very short-chain fatty acids found
in real butter have truly unique antioxidant properties, too. It's also
a good source of the wonderful, Medium Chain Triglyceride (MCT) found in
coconut oil and mother's milk.
-
- 6. No processed foods containing saturated fat.
-
- Uh... ...I agree?
-
- 7. Cod liver oil (1 tsp. or equivalent capsules) and
a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement are recommended daily.
-
- I agree with his recommending 5 grams of cod-liver oil
daily, but I think his supplement suggestions are woefully inadequate.
I'll give you my recommendations later in the "Helicopter Pilot's
Diet."
-
- ***
-
- Here are some additional recommendations on Swank's website
that I think are completely wrong headed:
-
- 1. TILT! He encourages eating a lot of whole grains,
cereal, & pasta. If you don't believe anything I'm telling you, please
believe this... the excessive consumption of these completely unnecessary
processed carbs is how our society got in this mess we endure in the first
place! We did not evolve eating any of these things -- you should get your
carbs from green leafy veggies, and veggies grown above ground, not so
much roots or tubers like white potatoes. Carrots and onions are a notable
exception.
-
- ...Did you know that of the three types of food nutrients,
carbohydrates, proteins, and fats... that carbs is the only one that is
unnecessary? You can live quite well on only fats and proteins -- the Inuit
do it, remember, and they have about the lowest incidence of heart disease
and MS on the whole freaking planet!!!
-
- Don't get me wrong. The right kind of raw veggies can
have a very positive effect (fiber, digestive enzymes and antioxidants)
and with the associated complex carbs ... veggies are a good thing.
-
- Also, did you know that some carbs, carbs we think are
the most health promoting, are some of the worst? They are refined grains
mixed into a slurry (thick liquid) and then extruded under heat and pressure
to form the "cute" little breakfast cereal shapes, that are then
baked. It suppresses your kid's immune system... and is a
- likely component of ADHD I'm betting.
-
- These "super" (my term) refined carbs cause
terrible insulin spikes resulting in still "Mom! More inflammation
please"! And the toasty surface area from baking creates another inflammatory
causing free radical, acrylamides. Cartman's doting Mom does Eric a real
disservice with the "Cheezy Poofs."
-
- 2. TILT! He says "all fruits are permissible in
any amount to include canned fruits." This is just not right!
-
- Fruit should be kept to a minimum, believe it or not
(especially if you're diabetic), and you should use only those very dark,
black, blue, purple, or red fruits, with a large (skin to pulp) ratio.
The skin is where most of the magical stuff is located, so you want "little
dark guys" like blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, etc.
- The one exception to the "small-dark rule"
is: one banana a day is OK. Canned? Along with many of the Vitamins in
"Canned fruit" the digestive enzymes don't survive the processing.
-
- 3. TILT! He recommends "two cups of vegetables daily."
I think this is silly... you should have three times that amount at a minimum.
And please, a french-fry is not considered a *@#%! vegetable, it's a coffin
nail -- and so is that other "vegetable," ketchup...(though,
home-made ketchup using Stevia instead of sugar is
- great)
-
- Inexplicably, Swank does not distinguish between raw
and cooked vegetables... when you should eat as many raw as possible. Cooking
kills the necessary digestive enzymes found in raw fruits and veggies.
-
- If you have digestive problems with raw veggies, then
lightly steaming is next best. However then, you absolutely need to supplementally
re-supply the now missing digestive enzymes. Of course if you take a broad
spectrum of supplemental digestive enzymes -- you will likely no longer
have a problem with raw veggies,
-
- 4. TILT! Swank says "have all the white fish (like
shark) and shellfish you want." This is unbelievable... fish has too
much lead and mercury and people with MS have 7 times the mercury in their
system as other folks. Also, he should not be recommending shark in particular.
The bigger fish, higher on the food chain, have the most mercury because
they eat the big fish, these eat the smaller fish, these, in turn, eat
even the smaller fish... OK, I'll stop...
-
- And, taking us out of the equation... who is it at the
top of the food chain... the hapless shark! I also don't recommend shellfish
because people with MS, heart disease, etc, need to clean up their environment
and diet... not add to the problem by eating the scavengers of the ocean
floor ("sea cockroaches") full of
- who-knows-what-kind of crap, putting a further strain
on their immune systems likely already compromised.
-
-
- The Helicopter Pilot's Diet: ( I'm a retired Army helicopter
pilot - so I had to call it something... )
-
- 1. Protein: Lean meat/poultry is good, however, avoid
processed meats if you already have a chronic disease. Always try to "liquid
cook" (absolutely NO burnt or extra well done meat... roasted, fried
or grilled). Here's a tip from one of the good guys I know, Michael Barbee:
On those occasions (4th of July, etc) when you want to grill ground meat,
cut open a vitamin E softgel and mix it with the meat to help protect you
from the free radical, HCA, created from burning fat. Go to Amazon.com,
http://tinyurl.com/3rxmh and read my review of Michael Barbee's book "Politically
Incorrect Nutrition". His book is must reading,. Look down the page
at Amazon for my comments.
-
- Remember - you need quality protein every day! Unfortunately,
virtually all cooked protein is not so good...cooking denatures protein.
I recommend replacing a significant portion of the meat you might normally
eat with a quality Whey Protein powder (sugar, Splenda, Equal and soy free
of course). The most digestible form is whey protein isolate (WPI) as opposed
to whey protein concentrate (WPC). Also, better "Cross Flow"
filtration as opposed to "ion exchange"...
-
- Also for quality protein, I recommend "cage free"
eggs, raw, lightly poached, soft boiled or very soft scrambled in butter
or olive oil...never margarine. If you eat them raw -- go to www.mercola.com
and read safety protocols for raw eggs. The really cheapest grocery store
eggs, remember, are high in Omega 6 - the more expensive free range/cage
free eggs are higher in Omega 3 and much less likely to cause problems
if consumed raw.
-
- 2. Food oils: Stay away from all poly unsat food oil
to include canola oil. Use Coconut oil (all you want!) and mono oils like
Olive/Macadamia-nut oil (in moderation). Poly-unsat medicinal oils like
Hemp & Flax can be used as food oils but only cold--avoid heat &
long exposure to the air.
-
- 3. Veggies: All the "above ground" & green
leafy veggies you want - so never waste a salad opportunity by using worthless
iceberg lettuce. Always use romaine, leaf lettuce, spinach, etc. Also try
to daily eat Cruciferous veggies like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale,
brussels sprouts, bok choy. If you are active, skinny & disease-free
- then baked potatos or rice (both with lots of butter) is OK. Boy, am
I gonna get mail about the following...ironically, eating a SIMPLE (but
natural) cabohydrate like a baked potato is better than eating a COMPLEX
carbohydrate like "whole wheat" bread that is processed to death
and containing hydrogenated Veggie Oil in an attempt to make it taste better
with some added fat.
-
- 4. Drink clean carbon filtered water with a pH greater
than seven (alkaline). If you use reverse osmosis water like I do, it can
turn out slightly acidic, about 6.5 pH, and is lacking about 95% of the
original trace minerals. Distilled water is even worse -- no minerals and
even more acidity. Both can leach minerals right out of your bones. You
can help correct these two problems with a squirt of liquid trace mineral
drops- the kind with 70+ minerals, not the kind with only the 6 or 8 that
"doctors" say are required. Avoid water in plastic containers
- store your clean water in glass mason jars.
-
- 5. Never consume any kind of carbonated drinks.
-
- a. They destroy valuable stomach acid thus adversely
affecting digestion.
-
- b. The phosphorous (in sodas) can cause a mineral imbalance
impairing Cal/Mag absorption.
-
- 6. Absolutely nothing with transfat. Almost all baked
goods to include most bread have HVO. Also the only safe peanut butter
is the kind where the oil floats to the top in storage, and must be refrigerated
(Bugs eat it! You can too!). I like to pour off the oil and add coconut
oil. The peanut oil is not real evil, considering it
- is 45% Mono oil, which is good, but it is 38% Poly oil
which is bad! So C.C nut oil turns peanut butter into a real health food.
If you can afford it, organic is safest... peanuts, like cotton (for cottonseed
oil) require very large applications of poisons while grown but are not
subject to the same purity restrictions as regular food oils. Isn't that
strange?
-
- 7. No bread, cereal, pasta, rice, or potatoes. Except
on your birthday or occasionally in "disease prevention mode."
-
- 8. Essential fatty acids (these are the most critical
steps):
-
- a. Three tablespoons of freshly ground flax seed (or
2 tsp flax seed oil). Grind fresh with a coffee grinder and serve only
in something cold, like a whey protein smoothie for example. b. With MS
or Alzheimer's, 4 to 7 grams of name brand, moderately priced cod liver
oil. If in "disease prevention mode" or you're more concerned
about cardiovascular disease, then 3 to 5 grams of high potency fish oil
would probably be better. Hi potency has 500mg EPA/DHA instead of 300mg.
-
- c. Optional: 1 or 2 grams of borage, black currant, or
a distant third, primrose oil. Always take these GLA medicinal oils with
ground flax seed or flax seed oil (read Fat Facts, above, to understand
why).
-
- 9. Supplements (as a minimum!):
-
- a. A good multi vitamin/mineral/trace mineral (70+).
You may have to buy the trace minerals drops separately from the multi.
For all supplements (in descending order) use: sublingual, liquid, scoop-able
powder, capsules, or low heat food based tablets or caplets. Never use
a synthetic, hard-pressed, grocery store product.
-
- b. Methylcobalamin B-12 in a sublingual (under the tongue)
tablet -- 1000 mcg, 2 or 3 times daily. Make sure its Methylcobalamin,
not cyanocobalamin.
- A large dose of sublingual B-12 is very cheap and is
probably the most beneficial supplement you can take for MS, behind Omega
3 from flax and fish oil. You only need one tablet if in "disease
prevention mode".
-
- c. MSM -- a natural form of sulfur that will aid digestion
and relieve almost any kind of inflammation, especially arthritis, and
it's very cheap. I like the pure scoop-able powder form -- but even the
cheap tablets seem to work decently.
-
- d. Calcium- 1500mg / Magnesium- 1500mg / Vitamin D3-
1200 iu. Take all three in divided doses, remembering that your multivitamin
probably already has 400 IU of D3, so adjust the 1200 IU accordingly. Amino
acid chelation is the preferred form of Cal/Mag followed by citrate. Never
take carbonate or coral calcium. Most Cal/Mag complexes come at a 2 to1
ratio -- I recommend a 1 to 1 ratio, which usually means buying additional
Mag separately. I have seen a brand of Cal/Mag CITRATE at a 1 to 1 ratio
but never the preferred AMINO ACID CHELATED Cal/Mag.
-
- e. Vitamin E -- Take 400 IU of "Natural mixed tocopherol".
The "D alpha tocopherol" is good also but never take the synthetic
"DL alpha tocopherol".
-
- f. Multi Enzyme Formula -- get a broad spectrum/moderately
priced brand.
-
- g. Probiotics (like acidophilus, et al ) -- get a brand
that has an expiration date guaranteeing the "little guys" will
still be alive.
-
- h. Betaine HCL w. Pepsin. Avoid all forms of antacid,
especially if you are over 50. If you have occasional heartburn that's
more likely a sign that you have too little stomach acid than too much.
With every protein meal most people should try a 250 mg capsule Betaine
HCL w. pepsin, even if they don't think they have a problem. 75% of the
population over 50 has too little stomach acid which can dramatically effect
your ability to absorb nutrients, minerals in particular.
-
- i. If you have MS or heart disease then you should try
to take as broad a spectrum of antioxidants as you can afford -- like CoQ
10, coenzyme A, grape seed extract, alpha lipoic acid, etc. If in "disease
prevention mode" very large doses of antioxidants are likely superfluous
, especially if you are relatively healthy and do all of those other supplemental
and dietetic things correctly -- like avoiding sugar / poly food oil /
HVO and taking Omega 3 (flax and fish oil).
-
- Menu for today -- Here is a day on the "Helicopter
Pilot's Diet," keeping in mind that 4 to 6 small meals are better
than 2 or 3 bigger meals:
-
- a. 1 or 2 breakfast meals -- 2 to 4 raw or lightly poached
eggs. If in "disease prevention mode" scrambled eggs with chopped
onions/peppers (melted/shredded cheese- in moderation). Sliced tomatoes,
steamed asparagus or any other veggies.
-
- b. 2 or 3 lunch meals -- one or two scoops of whey protein
in a smoothie with coconut oil, 1/2 cup of blueberries or a banana, one
or two tablespoons of ground flax seed, ice-water, sweetened with Stevia
(NEVER use sugar, Splenda, Equal, etc)
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- c. 1 or 2 evening meals -- pot roast with cooked veggies
and a medium salad or three chicken breasts chopped into a giant salad
with a rich olive-oil vinaigrette sweetened with stevia. Must be homemade
- Every commercial dressing I've ever seen is crap.
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- That's it folks -- I know this sounds restrictive but
after you give it a try you will feel demonstrably better... become so
much healthier... vastly improve your quality of life... All the "Spartan-ness"
will seem a small price to pay by comparison.
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- Please forward this paper to anyone you know with a chronic
disease.
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- Well be!
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- Contact?
- Alan D. Graham
- Phone (334) 774-0395
- E-mail -- alan068@centurytel.net
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- www.Alienview.net
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- Comment
- Jim Mortellaro
- 10-26-5
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- Finally some common sense-speak about MS. Mr. Graham
is no slouch when it comes to offering that sort of speak. He cured me
of irritable bowel syndrome. Overnight. Now he speaks of MS and it's amelioration
and possible prevention. Well, I do not know about prevention, but I do
know that he's dead on the money over the question of amelioration of the
symptoms. My own experience with MS began with marrying a gal who suffered
this disease from puberty. She ate burned meat as if it were her last meal.
Steaks, chops, sides of beef. And cooked on the grill to make it worser
than worser.
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