Nutrition for Regeneration of Heart, Circulatory and Lymphatic Systems
DiamondHeart
Nutrition for regeneration of heart, circulatory and lymphatic systems:
Nutritional and dietary factors are always involved when our organs and systems show symptoms of imbalance, depletion, or dis-ease. These changes are some of the most important ones you can make to support balance and vibrancy in your organs, tissues, and body systems.
STRONG HEART POINTS
There are several major points of change that are essential dietary aspects for regeneration. They are:
1-ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS (EFA’s). As discussed below.
2-CALM MAGNESIUM SUPPLEMENT. See Balancing your minerals below.
3-FRESH WHOLE GRAINS, FRUITS, AND VEGETABLES. Refined and processed foods are deficient in life force, or ki energy. When this energy is missing from our diets, we may still be getting the physical nutrients from our foods, but will still feel a lack of energy and vibrancy. No amount of capsules, vitamin or mineral supplements can ever replace the life force energy we get from fresh, unrefined foods!
4-SOUPS AND JUICES. Soups and juices are the recipe for regeneration. Hearty vegetable soups made from fresh locally grown vegetables provide superior nutrition and life force. They require little energy in the digestion process, so that even more of that life force is available for our bodies to use in building up depleted organs and tissues, and detoxifying cellular accumulation.
EFA’s: SUPER-NOURISHING FOODS
Your body’s cells are surrounded by a lipid layer (fatty acids). To keep every cell in your body flexible and healthy, you need an abundance of essential fatty acids (the “good” fats) in your diet.
Without these fats in abundant supply, your body is forced to use the wrong fats in maintaining cells. This results in weak, aging cells that are more vulnerable to dis-ease and attack from parasites and organisms. When toxic fats and by-products reach a critical point of accumulation, it can create many symptoms as the body tries to expel toxic accumulation from its cells.
This condition does not reflect true vibrant health. When we make these essential fatty acids available on a daily basis, our cells begin to regenerate and return to a state of health and vibrancy.
Essential fatty acids are available ONLY in cold-pressed oils. Eat a variety of these oils for the strongest support:
-Cold-pressed olive oil
-Cold-pressed flax seed oil
-Cold-pressed macadamia nut oil
-Cold-pressed sesame oil
-Cold-pressed green tea seed oil
-Many other cold-pressed oils
Remember-heat destroys the EFA’s. Always add these oils after cooking, as a condiment or flavoring to your rice, grains, vegetables, and salads. Some oils, like olive, macadamia nut, and coconut can be heated and still retain SOME food value.
When you do cook your oils, always add a little more after cooking to make those EFA’s available. Always avoid any oils or fats that are hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated. Read your labels-they must say “cold-pressed” or they do not represent the healthy choice!
In order to get sufficient quantities of these oils, you will need to add around 2 T. to 1/4 cup to your diet daily. At the same time, you will want to eliminate butter, cream, lard, refined oils, and foods containing saturated non-essential fats, including pastries, dairy products, salad dressings, mayonnaise, and deep fried foods.
BALANCING YOUR MINERALS-THE FOUNDATIONAL FOUR
For a healthy heart and vascular system, (and health in almost every system), your body needs four essential minerals. Not only does it need these minerals, but they must be in the proper balance in your body. These four minerals are:
-Calcium
-Magnesium
-Sodium
-Potassium
Most of us are aware of the need for calcium to maintain healthy teeth, bones, heart, and nervous system. What most people don’t know is that calcium will not stay in your body tissues if it does not have sodium and magnesium to hold it in solution. What looks like a calcium shortage is often really a magnesium shortage-or a sodium shortage!
Our diets contain a lot of calcium, yet we often suffer from a calcium deficiency because the other necessary minerals (primarily magnesium) are not in supply. For this reason, I encourage people to try a very absorbable liquid magnesium supplement called Calm. Many cases of heart spasms, heart pain, and irregular heart-beat have cleared up in weeks with the addition of Calm to the diet. You may be one of those with a magnesium shortage. If so, you will begin to see improvement within a few weeks.
To read more about or to purchase Calm, click below.
NATURAL CALM
Potassium and sodium are often available in our diets at the level that we need them. However, if you should find that you are deficient in either of these minerals, they can usually be balanced by adding certain foods into the diet.
Dandelion leaves, potatoes, organic bananas, cantaloupe and honeydew, lima beans, apricots, prunes, spinach, tomatoes, winter squashes all contain high quantities of potassium.
Sodium is available from celery, milk, seaweeds, beets, unrefined sea salt and alaea salt, to name a few. For those deficient in sodium, try Mt. Capra mineral Whey supplement, available in natural food stores.
WHOLE FOODS DIET FOR OPTIMUM NUTRITION
The following guidelines will help you return to a natural way of eating that can restore health and regenerate your body. Every food you put into your body becomes the raw materials for cells, tissues, and blood. You become what you eat. This makes it so important to put vibrant, whole foods filled with life force into our bodies!
Eat lots of these foods:
Fresh vegetables, including greens; spinach, lettuce, chard, escarole, endive, cilantro, parsley, astragalus, kale, cabbage; root vegetables; potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, yams, squashes, beets, turnips, parsnips, yucca, jicama; and vegetables like eggplant, asparagus, peppers, onions, corn, peas, green beans, broccoli, zucchini, brussel sprouts, alfalfa and bean sprouts, beans, etc. AVOID canned vegetables! They have very little life force compared to frozen and fresh ones.
Whole grains like bulgur, quinoa, millet, rice (if you like only white rice, try blending it with brown, Thai red, or black rice), oats, rye, barley, buckwheat, spelt, kamut, amaranth, etc. AVOID refined white flour and pure white rice. Limit wheat products, pastas, breads (even whole grain), refined baked goods such as cookies, pastries, and granola bars.
Lots of raw seeds-put them on top of salads, vegetables, in burritos, casseroles, meatloaf, anything after it has been cooked, so you keep the whole nutrients available. Sesame, hemp, plantain, flax, fennel, cumin, anise, poppy, sunflower, etc. Nut and seed butters are great snacks and soup ingredients. Nuts are great too-but soak them over night before eating. They will be much easier on your system to digest-and taste better too. AVOID nuts and seeds that have been roasted, heated, or salted.
Fresh fruits, including melons, apples, pears, peaches, grapes, plums, all kinds of berries, star fruit, lemons, oranges, grapefruits, pineapple, limes, pomegranates, bananas, nectarines, etc. Dried fruits are great-only if you soak them over night before eating! Soak all your raisins, dried apricots, dried cherries, etc. for better digestion and hydration.
AVOID canned fruits!
Protein foods such as tofu, fish, sesame butter, shiitake mushrooms, eggs, and combinations of rice and beans.
Soup! Nature’s best regenerator is soup that contains fresh vegetables. AVOID canned soup-it is devoid of the life force you will find in home cooked soups. (There are some ready-made soups available in cartons that are fairly vibrant, but they can not compare to the soup you make at home).
Eat moderate amounts of these foods:
High protein foods, chicken, poultry, lamb, beef, shell fish, pork. Some of these foods are necessary for most people moving from a modern diet to a natural way of eating. They should be consumed only in small quantities, and never after the mid-day meal.
When you eat these foods, eliminate the refined carbohydrates that they are often served with: Eat the hamburger without the bun, eat the roast beef without the roll, salad, and potato. Your body will handle the digestion process much better if you do not combine other foods, particularly refined carbohydrates, with meat. Always eat the lean parts and leave the fatty parts. Remove chicken skin and pork and beef fat.
Better digestion means less toxic by-product and no fermentation in the intestinal tract. Then your skin, lungs, liver, kidneys, and colon do not have to work so hard to neutralize and eliminate these toxins. This lack of by-products in your blood effects the health of your heart and blood pressure as well.
Limit or eliminate entirely these foods:
-Carbonated soft drinks-especially DIET! Replace with juices, teas, nutmilk.
-All diet sweeteners ESPECIALLY NUTRA-SWEET! Replace with maple sugar or
maple syrup, stevia extract, honey, or xylitol.
-Milk-If you have a heart condition, high blood pressure, or hardening of the arteries, you must eliminate refined dairy products. Replace with nutmilks, soymilk, coconut milk. If you have access to real goat’s milk or cow’s milk that is unhomogenized, you can consume it in moderate quantities. It is the pasteurization and especially the homogenization process that creates Xanthine oxidase, a substance that scratches the inside of our arteries and veins. When the body tries to repair this damage, it results in plaque accumulation, hardening of the arteries, and high blood pressure.
-Coffee. Coffee, when consumed often, completely upsets the acid balance. It “burns out” the adrenals and nervous system, especially if you use it every day. It stimulates the endocrine glandular system and creates a chronic state of depletion. This effects every system in our bodies. Many cases of heart palpitations disappear when coffee is removed from the diet.
-White sugar, refined salt, and refined flour products.
-Alcohol. Moderate amounts of wine are beneficial for some people. For some, moderate amounts of beer. It is far better to have one glass every day than seven glasses once a week! Alcohol is taxing for kidneys, liver, and spleen energies. Moderation is the key. Many people will not feel really vibrant until they eliminate it entirely, especially those with candida, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, organ depletion, or alcohol addiction.
FOOD AND THE ASCENSION PROCESS
It is important to realize that somewhere through the personal process of regeneration, one reaches a state of balance and clarity from which the vibrational and energetic qualities of all foods become obvious. At this point one is no longer drawn toward foods that are unhealthy for the body. They simply don’t taste or feel good. At this point, body, mind, and spirit are in such alignment that one automatically desires the food that will best sustain and enhance the whole being.
There are many possible stages along the way to reaching this point of consciousness. Most people in our culture today are consuming denatured foods with lower life force and some degree of chaotic vibration. One can be eating all the “right foods”, yet if we are unable to discern the vibrational quality of the foods, we may still not be getting the regenerative effects that we desire. For this reason, I encourage people to develop muscle testing (kinesiology), dowsing, or other intuitive and sensory oriented ways of discerning the life force and vibration of foods. The testing will often give surprising and unexpected results.
It is important to follow your heart on which changes to incorporate and when. One must satisfy the need of the body from a nutritional standpoint. Eliminating many favorite foods without allowing sufficient time for adjustment creates an emotional void that can sabotage our efforts toward change. I suggest that changes be incorporated a little at a time. Gradually start replacing denatured foods with organic whole foods. Eliminate one or two at a time and let your body adjust to the new program before attempting the next change.
CORRECTING INTERNAL IMBALANCES
When our body shows symptoms, it is reflecting a state of imbalance. Often we need the extra help of herbs or hydrosols to help correct these imbalances even if we are eating a good diet.
These imbalances also speak of a deeper issue. Constitutional patterns in our energy systems affect the way we think, feel, and move in our bodies. As we become conscious of these patterns, we begin to see how they help to create our experience of health or dis-ease.