I received a question below that I want to post here as I believe it's very important. "Hello! I found your site via paleohacks. I’m torn right now between doing your diet and a safe starch carb cycling paleo diet. Basically two years ago I went paleo and dropped some weight…about 10lbs. I then lost my period. I didn’t get it back until I had gained all the weight back plus six pounds. I had to eat lots of bad food just to gain the weight and restart my cycle. So I’m afraid to cut starches. Do you have any ideas because I would love to cut them out and not worry about my cycle. Thank you!" Hi Ashley, Great question and I have been pondering it for quite a few months and I just figured out why it's a really good idea NOT to have safe starches in some circumstances. Here is the reason why: IF you have a overgrowth of candida then candida LOVES starches, safe or not. Starches would be Candida's food of choice. Candida is connected to so many problems so even if … Read more…
Turmeric…and Carrots! for Menopausal Discomforts
Although I did mention one of the wonderful side effects of the Alkaline Paleo diet was peri-menopausal symptom reduction, at age 53, I am now in full menopause (1 period in the last 18 months). The hot flushes were becoming very intense and I would be kept awake all night. It wasn't just the hot flushes, I was also waking at 2am (the liver hour) every night and not being able to go back to sleep. My other symptoms were a tight and achy back of my neck (liver meridian area) and achy … Read more…
Results of My First Bone Density Scan and My Latest Blood Test
Since we found out Ian was osteoporotic last year, I decided it was time for my first DXA scan. How else am I to find out whether my bone density is getting better (or worse) on the Alkaline Paleo Diet if I don't know what it's like now? At age 53 and menopausal, the results of the DXA scan shows that I am not as yet in any danger zone. I have no osteopenia (the precursor to osteoporosis) but I am not in the age 20 years bracket for bone health. I am in the top … Read more…
Update of Ian’s Osteoporosis After a DXA (Bone Density) Scan
The DXA The results were one year after his last DXA scan my 66 year old husbands femur is 8% more dense and his spine is ever so slightly worse. As there was so little change in the spine I am thinking the DXA scan could have got it wrong and it's really about the same as it was as why else is his femur so much better and not his spine? Anyway I need to concentrate on what is really, really good and not worry about what could be just a mistaken reading by the DXA scanner, as I have … Read more…
Warning:Don’t Feed the Cancer! High Carbohydrate Food is Cancer’s Source of Fuel
This is such a simple and obvious thing but this simple fact get avoided time and time again. Cancers only diet is glucose. Starving Cancer Out by Fasting Fasting has proven in studies that if you don't die of starvation first then Cancer loses it's source of fuel and then dies. How obvious is this! There is problems with fasting of course. In a weakened state such as the body is with Cancer then restricting nutrition can really be a problem. Energy loss, nutrient … Read more…
Stevia Sweetened Almond Meal Chocolate Cake
This is a cake for only very, very special occasions and only when you are well on the road to recovery. So saying we all need something to make for those times when we are asked to bring something to a gathering and we don't want to bring what we now know, is not only poisonous to our bodies, but pretty well much everyone else. … Read more…
Coconut Milk Recipe
While I am not in favor in the beginning stages of this diet to have coconut in any other form than the oil I do understand the problem with ingesting large quantities of the oil without something to make it easier to go down. With that I am posting my coconut nut milk recipe. Mix a little of this milk with coconut oil and a few berries and blend with stick blender. Makes taking larger quantities of coconut oil much easier! … Read more…
Alkaline Paleo is for Sick People, Not Just Fitness Freaks
One of the things I think is giving Paleo a bad name for some people is that they are getting the idea it's only for the overweight diabetics or for the fit & healthy to get more muscles. I am not fit and I am still in the midst of getting well after 3 years on this diet (I did make a mistake a year ago which set me back hugely, see this post) and I am not fat at all, unless I am compared to a fashion model of today. I am now in full on Menopause and because I had Glandular fever and … Read more…
Detoxify Using Good Fats and Nutrition
The internet is full of themost 'wonderful' and 'easy' ways to detoxify the body. It's as if all our physical problems are onlycaused by the toxins we daily get bombarded with, from our food to our air. Ah, if life were that simple! The Truth About Detoxifying with a Juice Cleanse, a Water Cleanse or a Colonic When we get sick, we go on the net or to a natural therapist, and the inevitable answer seems to be go on a fast or cleanse with juices or just plain water. Or perhaps we are … Read more…
Testing Your Bodies Alkalinity – A Unique Way
I received the below questions and decided my stunning answers ;-) were worth posting.. so here goes. … Read more…
