How to Stay Healthy: A Natural Approach to Diet, Juicing, and Living Clean
This is an important question, as we see that all over the world, people are getting sick, and most don’t know how to get well. We are not doctors — this is simply information we’ve gathered from natural health practitioners. This is what they say we should do to stay healthy. Even though nobody can predict with certainty whether they’ll remain healthy — there are many factors that determine why one person stays well and another becomes sick — if this article can help you, we will be glad.
How to Stay Healthy by Living a Correct Diet
Diet is not the only part of staying healthy, but it is an important part — much like car maintenance isn’t the only factor in keeping your car running well, but it matters a great deal. Stress, friendships, a good support system, your finances, your job — so many things contribute to your overall health. These are basic guidelines meant to help you.
Why is diet important? Diet matters because it is the fuel for your cells. Food and drink are what feed the body and keep it running. If we send poor fuel to the body and its cells, they will respond negatively and won’t function properly. The best fuel for the body produces healthy cells and healthy organs.
What does the body need? The body needs about 90 nutrients every day to stay in good health, and two-thirds of those nutrients are minerals. We find minerals in sea water, clay, vegetables, and fruits. This means that if you don’t eat raw foods — where these minerals are found — you may become deficient.
The problem is that to get the same nutrient content found in one apple or tomato back in 1950, you would need to eat about 30 apples or tomatoes today. The soil has become depleted, and even eating “right” might not be enough. So how can you bring an abundant amount of nutrients and minerals into your body? Can you eat twenty tomatoes and twenty apples at every meal? No. So how is that possible to achieve? By juicing your fruits and vegetables — what a great solution.
Diet is a very important part of your health, and eating raw food can do wonders for it. It may seem boring at first, but your body and your cells will experience this change as something exciting. Your cells become genuinely happier when you give them raw food.
Why is raw food better? Because when food is cooked, it becomes “dead,” and most of its nutrients are lost. The taste of cooked food is wonderful, and it’s very satisfying and filling — but that doesn’t mean it nourishes us the way raw food does.
When we first switch to eating raw food, we may feel unsatisfied or “empty,” but we get used to it. You don’t have to eat 100% raw food for it to help your health greatly. The testimonies I’ve heard from French natural health expert Thierry Casasnovas are amazing — many people who transitioned from a cooked diet to a raw one have seen tremendous improvements in their health and energy.
How to Stay Healthy by Living a Juicing Lifestyle
Why is juicing so important? Because it’s the most effective way we know to bring an abundant amount of high-quality nutrients into the body. It does require effort and money, since buying fresh fruits and vegetables is an expense — but when you think about it, it’s far cheaper and better to prevent disease than to spend so much money at the hospital, not to mention the lost workdays and pain that come with being sick.
This is a very important habit to build: eating raw food and juicing regularly. Vegetables help remineralize the body, while fruits help cleanse it. One thing I’ve noticed is that when people start juicing, they often drink just one small glass a day. That’s a good start, but you won’t heal your body by drinking only one small glass of juice daily — it takes a much greater amount of juice to truly feed and cleanse your body.
When you juice, you not only cleanse your colon — which is extremely important — but you also create something like a “cleansing crisis,” during which your lymphatic system clears toxins from your body as well. For most people, once they start juicing seriously, their lives improve dramatically. Your cells need nutrients to live and stay healthy, and your body needs this kind of power boost to eliminate toxins and properly feed your organs. Juicing is amazing because it accomplishes the two things your body needs most: elimination of waste and delivery of a massive amount of nutrients.
You can vary the fruits and vegetables you use according to your needs. Juicing produces extremely concentrated nutrition that’s absorbed by your colon within about twenty minutes. When you juice, you cleanse your colon, which leads to much better nutrient absorption afterward — meaning the food you eat once your colon is cleansed will deliver more nutrients to your body. When you juice, you send far more minerals and vitamins into your body in their natural form, and you’ll feel an incredible boost of energy, since your body won’t need to spend energy digesting solid food first.
Your mental health will improve as well, since you’ll simply feel better overall. It helps to understand that the brain is deeply connected to the gut, and we often feel things more from the stomach than from the brain. The enteric nervous system — which isn’t widely taught yet, but should be — plays a major role here. When your colon is clean, your mind will feel much clearer too.
Juicing will cleanse your colon, and you’ll feel much happier and calmer as a result of the connection between your brain and your gut. Juicing also helps reduce inflammation in the body and can help prevent disease, as your body becomes filled with vitamins, minerals, and a stronger immune system.
Of course, this isn’t the only factor in good health. If you smoke, don’t exercise, and juice but still eat junk food — or if you lack supportive relationships and carry a lot of stress in your life — you might not remain healthy regardless. But juicing will still immensely benefit your overall health.
How to Stay Healthy by Living a Clean Lifestyle
If there’s one thing you need to know to keep your body healthy, it’s this: clean your body regularly. This is extremely important, and the problem is that most people simply don’t know it. Your body does a fantastic job of clearing out damaged cells, garbage, and toxins — when we give it the space to do so.
A great example of this is fasting. You don’t need to fast for long periods — intermittent fasting is incredible and does a great job — though longer fasts work even better. Other methods that help a great deal include juicing, as well as a plant called psyllium.
Cleaning your colon regularly is very important for your health. The toxins and waste we accumulate in our bodies need to be released regularly. This helps your organs and cells function much better and stay cleaner overall. Your risk of disease will be lower as your body holds fewer toxins — many people say toxin buildup is a major reason people get sick.
The toxins from everything we’ve accumulated in our bodies attack our organs and cells. The colon is like the root of the body. When a child is born, we can see that the organs grow like branches, all connected back to the colon. This is remarkable when you consider it — what we put into our colon greatly affects all the other organs, since they’re all connected to it.
How to Stay Healthy by Living a Life Rich in Herbs
There are far too many beneficial herbs to name here, but a few that I believe you really need to take every day are horsetail, neem, and turmeric.
Horsetail not only helps keep your skin, hair, and teeth healthy and beautiful, but it’s also amazing for your bones. Horsetail is a natural diuretic, flushing excess water from your body, and it can help with weight loss. Horsetail also treats urinary infections and may help decrease high blood pressure. Of course, for that benefit, the best approach is to address the root cause of your high blood pressure — which is often a fatty diet and excessive meat consumption.
When the veins in the body fill with fat, blood has a harder time flowing through them, creating higher blood pressure, since your heart has to work harder to push blood through fatty veins. Watching Dr. Mathias Rath’s videos helped me understand this concept further — I highly recommend his book, Why Animals Don’t Get Heart Disease, But People Do.
Neem is one of the most important plants in the world. Some say it helps with cancer and diabetes. I once gave my mother a few drops of neem mixed with water when she had a very intense cold, and the cold cleared up within a few hours. Neem is also wonderful for your teeth and hair, and it’s known to help with low blood sugar.
Some say neem kills cancer cells. Neem is also a natural spermicide, meaning it may work similarly to a condom in that regard. Some claim neem can help with malaria — a disease that kills millions of people around the world each year. It’s unfortunate that this kind of information isn’t taught more widely, as it could potentially save many lives.
Turmeric and curcumin are incredible as well. Turmeric helps fight inflammation — two years ago, I had intense arthritis in my fingers, and after immediately taking six capsules of turmeric and nettle, the pain was gone within three days. Turmeric is an amazing anti-inflammatory herb, and it helps boost the brain through neurotrophic factors. It’s also a powerful antioxidant that protects the body.
Turmeric may help lower the risk of heart disease, help prevent cancer, and support healing from Alzheimer’s. It’s excellent for people with arthritis and may be incredible for depression, potentially helping to prevent many age-related diseases.
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