| Your Gut and Autoimmune Disease
Did you know that having the wrong the bacteria in your bowels will increase your risk of autoimmune disease? The mix of bacteria, yeasts, and parasites that we have depends directly upon the foods we eat. For thousands of generations, we ate leaves, roots, fish, and meat. It was only at the dawn of agriculture, a mere 10,000 years ago, that we began eating so much starch. It was only 300 years ago that we began eating sugar and only 75 years ago that we began eating high fructose corn syrup. Each change shifted the mix of the critters that live in and on us. Scientists are finding out that those critters have a major impact on our health. It turns out that if you have a starch- and sugar -loving mix of critters, you are more likely to have an autoimmune problem and a host of other health problems. Some people turned to probiotics, a mix of healthy bacteria, to promote health, but most capsules have 1 to 15 billion bacteria in them;, which won’t have much of a chance against the 100 trillion bacteria, yeasts, and parasites that live in your gut. For a healthier mix of critters in your bowels, starve the harmful ones and do a better job of feeding the health-promoting ones. This means cutting out white flour, sugar, and high fructose corn syrup and eating more vegetables and berries. Another way to promote bacterial health is by eating food that has been lacto-fermented, such as lacto-fermented cabbage. Notably, fermented cabbage was used by the navies in the 1800s to prevent vitamin C deficiency and scurvy. |
 |
Fermented Cabbage
Directions: Finely grate cabbage and pack into a wide mouthed quart jar, sprinkling with sea salt as you pack. When the jar is filled, place a glass or smaller jar filled with water on top of the cabbage to keep it under the line of fluid. Let the jar sit on counter. As it works, the fluid will increase and may overflow the jar. After 2 to 4 days, place the jar in a cool place or the refrigerator. It will keep for many months.
Learn more about eating for health from my book, MINDING MY MITOCHONDRIA and from my FOOD AS MEDICINE lecture series, including TROUBLE IN YOUR GUT, in which I discuss the research that links bacteria to a variety of health issues. Take Your Life Back: how simple lifestyle changes, including eating healthy foods, will make living with Multiple Sclerosis more manageable.
Exciting News: Announcing On Demand, Pay-Per-View Videos of Dr. Wahls
|
| |
|
June 16, 2012, 12:30 to 3:30 pm, at the
Drury Lane Theater and Conference Center, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
For more information visit http://www.terrywahls.com/classes-schedule
|
 |
|
We continue to receive donations from around the world and now have over $5,000 in the fund. Thank you! The first thing we are planning to do with these funds is to pay for analysis of the frozen blood we have on the first wave of subjects. This will allow us to begin to understand how the chemistry of the body changed as subjects adopted the intensive nutrition, meditation, and exercise program. We are very excited to be able to add these types of studies because it will strengthen our future grant applications. If you would like to be part of the team, please consider making a donation. You may now donate online through the University of Iowa Dr. Wahls Research Fund to help fund Dr. Wahls’ research. Those of you who wish to make a donation now can do so by writing a check to the University of Iowa Foundation and putting “Dr. Terry Wahls Research UI account” on the memo line. Checks should be mailed to: University of Iowa Foundation In health, Dr. Terry Wahls |
| |
Terry Wahls' Blog
Your Gut and Autoimmune Disease
Ingredients:
Bone Broth Recipe
Ingredients:
- Bones (can be chicken carcass, pork chop bones, ribs or a soup bone with marrow in it from the butcher)
- Chicken feet, shrimp tail, or clam/mussel shells (all optional bone alternatives)
- ½ to 1 tsp powdered kelp or dulse flakes
- 1 to 3 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 6 to 10 cups of water
- This is also a great way to use any leftover vegetables from earlier in the week or in the refrigerator that may be getting stale.
Directions:
Put all the ingredients in kettle or crockpot over low heat. Let simmer without boiling for several hours or several days. Strain out the bones. Strain out the vegetables or put them through a high-speed blender. The broth is filled with free amino acids that heal the gut and all of the minerals our bones need to thrive. Anyone suffering from a ‘leaky gut’ will likely benefit greatly from having bone broth several times a day as part of a healing regimen.
Visit the Recipes page on our website to find more recipes! Visit Here
If you wish to learn more about what I did in the first year of my recovery, check out my book Minding My Mitochondria.
Salmon Salad Kale Wrap Recipe
Collard greens or curly kale, as a tuna, salmon, or chicken salad wrap.
Instructions:
Steam the leaves less than two minutes. Dip in cold or ice water to cool. Place a spoonful of tuna, salmon or chicken salad in the steamed leaf. Roll like a taco or wrap around and enjoy.
Coconut Milk Oyster Stew Recipe
Coconut Milk Oyster Stew Ingredients:
1 lb of shucked oysters
¼ lb bacon
1 onion, chopped
1-2 cloves of garlic, minced
2 basil leaves
½ bunch of cilantro, minced
1 small yam
1 cup mushrooms
3-inch piece lemongrass
1-2 tbsp lemon juice
2-3 cups fish broth, clam juice or chicken broth
1 can coconut milk
Cooking Instructions:
Let onion and garlic sit for 15 minutes to stabilize. Fry bacon. Add onions, garlic, mushrooms, broth, yam, lemongrass and coconut milk. Simmer 10 minutes. Add oysters and lemon juice and simmer 2 minutes. Turn off heat. Add minced cilantro and basil and serve. You can add other fish and shellfish as another variant.
Eating for our cells and our mitochondria can be delicious and restorative.
Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe
Strawberry Spinach Salad Ingredients:
Spinach
Fresh strawberries, sliced
2 tbsp fruit jam
2 tbsp flax oil
1-2 tsp lime or lemon juice
1-2 tsp water (optional)
Cooking Instructions:
Whir together the last four ingredients in a blender to make the dressing. Pour dressing over the greens and berries and toss.
1
Recent Posts
- Terry Wahls MD Webinar
- Your Gut and Autoimmune Disease
- The Wahls Foundation Inc. Update
- Bone Broth Recipe
- Do You Have an Autoimmune Problem?
- Implement the Wahls Diet - Online Course Coming Soon!
- Research and Fundraising Update
- Has Your Family Been Struggling with Weight Issues?
- Salmon Salad Kale Wrap Recipe
- What is the Root Cause of Disease?