Edible Earth Nutrition

Insulin resistance doesn’t happen overnight. When most of your diet includes empty calories and an abundance of quickly absorbed sugars, liquid calories, and ca...rbohydrates like bread, pasta, rice, and potatoes, your cells slowly become resistant to the effects of insulin. Your body increasingly demands more insulin to do the same job of keeping your blood sugar even. Eventually, your cells become resistant to insulin’s call, resulting in insulin resistance. The higher your insulin levels are, the worse your insulin resistance. Your body starts to age and deteriorate. In fact, insulin resistance is the single most important phenomenon that leads to rapid, premature aging and all its resultant diseases, including heart disease, stroke, dementia, and cancer. Your blood sugar levels should be less than 80 mg/dl fasting and never rise above 110 or 120 mg/dl after one and two hour checks. Your insulin should be less than 5 uIU/mL fasting and should never rise above 30 uIU/mL after one and two-hour checks. Most doctors don’t check insulin. Ask your doctor for this test. See more

Acid blocking drugs obviously block acid that can cause symptoms of heartburn and reflux. But your body actually needs stomach acid to stay healthy. Stomach aci...d is necessary to digest protein and food, activate digestive enzymes in your small intestine, keep the bacteria from growing in your small intestine, and help you absorb important nutrients like calcium, magnesium, and vitamin B12. There’s evidence that taking these medications can prevent you from properly digesting food, cause vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and lead to problems like irritable bowel syndrome, depression, hip fractures, & more. For example, studies show that people who take acid-blocking medications for the long term can become deficient in vitamin B12, which can lead to depression, anemia, fatigue, nerve damage, & even dementia, especially in the elderly. These are all treatable conditions that you don’t need powerful acid-blocking drugs to fix. To properly diagnose the causes of your reflux, you may need to do the following: -Ask your doctor for an H. pylori blood antibody test or breath test. -Consider a test for IgG food allergies & celiac disease. -Get a breath or urine organic acid test to check for small bowel bacterial overgrowth. -If you don’t get better with the suggestions below, consider getting an upper endoscopy or upper GI series x-ray to see if there is anything else wrong. -Try to eliminate dairy & gluten. -Eliminate alcohol, caffeine, citrus, tomato-based, & spicy foods. -Don’t eat within 3 hours before bed. - Avoid processed foods. -Eat cooked foods, like fish, chicken, cooked veggies, & rice; avoid raw food for now. -Take 2 to 3 capsules of digestive enzymes with each meal. -Re-inoculate the gut with healthy bacteria by using probiotics. -Try 75 to 150 mg of zinc carnosine twice a day between meals -Take 3 to 5 grams of glutamine powder in water twice a day to help heal the gut lining. -Chew 2 to 3 chewable tablets of DGL (a form of licorice) 15 minutes before meals. -Try 200 to 400 mg of magnesium citrate or glycinate twice a day. *Please consult your physician before trying any new supplements or treatments See more