AWeber - FOHAC Chewing #391

Published: Sun, 01/29/17

Fair Oaks Health News

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January 29, 2017

Chewing

Hi ,

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
Hippocrates

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
Hippocrates

All disease starts in the gut.
Hippocrates

Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine. He took the role of the physician from more of a witchdoctor status who deals with evil spirits as the cause of disease to understanding the natural physical causes of disease. One of his primary observations is that disease begins in our lifestyle and dietary choices. He put great emphasis on the importance of good digestion to support good health.

Over the last 45 years I have come to much the same conclusions from my own observations. Most poor health comes down to lifetime habits of poor diet and poor physical conditioning. In previous centuries deficient diets produced compromised immune systems that left folks susceptible to infectious diseases. This is still the case in many third world countries. But in first world countries we have developed a very different problem – the destructive dangers of excess are destroying our health.

Excess is not simply about too much food, but about what has happened to our food in order to produce that excess. We have cleverly invented ways to store and preserve food in order to help produce the abundance we see all around us. Unfortunately this abundance comes at a price we don’t readily see until it is too late. Simply put, in order to make our food indigestible to bugs, molds, bacteria, and inhibit oxidation spoilage, we have made our food supply indigestible to ourselves as well. We are still able to get calories out of the food, but the support of our ability to get the full complement of vital nutrients has been lost. Modern food actually blocks our ability to break down the poisons naturally found in foods and adds a ton of new poisons into the food. This in turn gradually destroys our digestive system and sets us up for the whole host of chronic diseases that so heavily permeate our modern culture.

Lets start with something very simple – chewing. For millions of years humans have been chewing rough fiber filled foods to fill their bellies. The very process of chewing these rough foods stimulates the immune system around the mouth to produce Th17 immune cells to fight off bad bacteria and toxins. Modern foods try to do away with chewing. We want a nice soft “mouth feel” to our foods or a crunchy feel that quickly melts and is easily swallowed. We don’t like foods that require lots of chewing before it can be swallowed. Consequently we are able to swallow a lot of food in a very short period of time so we can fill up fast. This makes it very easy to over eat as the stomach can stretch to hold more food faster than we can digest the food and get it into our bloodstream to tell our brain we have had enough.

Chewing also stimulates the release of the necessary stomach acid for breaking down the foods enough that the enzymes from the pancreas can cut the food up into molecular size pieces for absorption through the gut lining. We fill our stomach faster than we can produce the acid necessary for the second step in digestion – acid breakdown of the food. Chewing food for a long time before swallowing allows and stimulates this acid production at the right rate for proper digestion. Weight gain is a natural consequence of this compromised eating style.

Even our meats have had the chew taken out of them. Animals used to be range fed and had to be moved from pasture to pasture. This produces tough, chewy meat. Modern meat production grain feeds the animals in feedlots that restrict their movement producing soft, tender meat that almost needs no chewing at all. Our fruits and vegetables have been hybridized to similarly be less tough and chewy and more soft and squishy. These changes also hugely change the nutrient profile of our foods to have fewer nutrients but a lot more calories per ounce.

Certain enzymes are produced in our saliva that starts the digestion of starches. If we do not chew our foods a long time, these enzymes do not have the time to do their job properly. As a result we end up feeding bad bacteria in our gut these starches producing gut inflammation. If we ate the high fiber foods, we would have the opposite result, since the fibers feed the good bacteria instead of the bad bacteria.

A last point to mention about chewing is the importance of tasting the food you eat fully. This is for several reasons. Your taste buds send messages to many parts of your body. The tongue nerves and taste buds are actually an extension of your brainstem, which sits right behind the back of the throat. Taste directly affects your brain chemistry and consequently your mood. Feeling satisfied and balanced come in part from tasting all the flavors in your food. Our culture has come to use food as a mood drug by only paying attention to the sweet, spicy, and salty flavors and ignoring the bitter, astringent, and savory. This tends to leave us in a constant state of feeling imbalanced and craving as a result.

How much should you chew a piece of food? Food should be fully liquefied before you swallow. But since so many foods today don’t even need to be chewed, the question might be how long should a bite of food roll around on your pallet to be fully tasted and let the enzymes do their job? For solid foods I would say around 20 to 30 seconds per small bite. Savor your food and let it fill your taste buds with flavor as long as possible. Actually be present with your food and taste it. If you find you stop being present and tasting, then stop eating. Just this one little tip will make a huge difference in your digestion and ultimately your health.

Take care,

David

Ellen update:

Recovery is both slow and requires creativity. Last week Toni Mounts, Ellen's hand therapist, came up with an improvised 1/2 pound weight for her ankle. The 1 lb weight I ordered for her was too heavy to use during her morning leg exercises, but this improvised version works just fine. The key to therapy is to work the areas just hard enough to stimulate adaptation in the nervous system without creating fatigue. Once the brain gets fatigued rehabilitation ceases.

Gut bacteria for acne?

Researchers are now describing a gut-skin axis in which certain gut bacteria directly affect the health of the skin. Specifically the bacteria lactobacillus rhamnosus sp1 was found to significantly reduce acne and improve immune health of the skin.

Acne

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"Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."

~ John Adams

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B6 and cognitive decline

Are you not as sharp as you used to be? It has been found that having low B6 levels increases your chances of mental decline by 350%. If you have the MTHFR gene mutation you body dies not convert dietary B6 to the active usable form well leading to deficiency. In such cases you want to use P5P, pyridoxal 5 phosohate, the active form of B6 - perhaps 25 milligrams 4 times a day fro 6 to 8 weeks to reverse this deficiency. Another common sign of this is peripheral neuropathy in the feet or carpal tunnel in both hands. If you have that gene mutation you will also need methylcobalamin form of B12 and methyltetrafolate form of folic acid as well. Additionally THC from marijuana blocks the conversion of B6 to its active form in the brain so you need the P5P form sublingually if you smoke.

B6

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"Fear is the foundation of most governments."

~ John Adams
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Shopping bags from prawn shells

AS the new shopping bag laws have come into effect here in California, we find ourselves tasked with remembering to bring our reusable bags into the store with us. In Egypt they are taking a different approach by creating a biodegradable shopping bag out of shrimp and prawn shells.

Prawn Bags

"The happiness of society is the end of government."

~John Adams

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If you are coming from the Roseville area you could come down Sunrise Blvd, but that is a long trek. It is probably shorter time wise to come down Auburn Blvd - San Juan Ave like you have been for the Sunset office, but instead of turning left at Sunset, keep going straight 3 more lights to Fair Oaks Blvd and turn left. Go down 2 lights to New York Ave, go through the intersection, and immediately turn into the turn lane once the center divider ends. We are on the left.

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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